• Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      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).

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        13 hours ago

        When I was a strapping young lad, I would rather just reinstall the system in case of viruses than living with the antivirus software

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        9 hours ago

        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.

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      14 hours ago

      Unfortunately a lot of AV “solutions” on Windows are proprietary which makes it a no for me.

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        9 hours ago

        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.

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            4 hours ago

            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.