Were they arguing that extra antivirus wasn’t necessary? Cause windows built in has been better than alternatives for years now (well, idk about 11, but 7, 8, and 10 all had good antivirus).
It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.
That could have been me… I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn’t know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn’t boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)
Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren’t necessary and a waste of processing power.
Can’t really reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Were they arguing that extra antivirus wasn’t necessary? Cause windows built in has been better than alternatives for years now (well, idk about 11, but 7, 8, and 10 all had good antivirus).
When I was a strapping young lad, I would rather just reinstall the system in case of viruses than living with the antivirus software
It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.
That could have been me… I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn’t know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn’t boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)
Unfortunately a lot of AV “solutions” on Windows are proprietary which makes it a no for me.
Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.
Are there any open source av programs, and any that don’t cost money?
Just use Linux and don’t be an idiot on the Internet
I want to switch to linux for sure, both in phone and computer. Too late on the idiot part. Just joking though I’ve not said anything prosecutable.