These blog posts remind me so much of what the internet used to be like in the mid to late 90s. Quirky, pointless pages but they all contained "important" things to the creator of said pages or...
These blog posts remind me so much of what the internet used to be like in the mid to late 90s. Quirky, pointless pages but they all contained "important" things to the creator of said pages or sites. I remember making band "fan sites" on Geocities with bios and discographies, certainly useless but still fun none the less!
Is it no longer much use? I've used it on top of Windows Defender for years, but I confess I haven't reexamined my security stance in a while. What's the current best practice for protecting an...
Is it no longer much use? I've used it on top of Windows Defender for years, but I confess I haven't reexamined my security stance in a while. What's the current best practice for protecting an individual's PC?
Honestly, most antiviruses these days are more sketchy than actual malware. I think unless you're running random stuff from random sites you should just use windows defender.
Honestly, most antiviruses these days are more sketchy than actual malware. I think unless you're running random stuff from random sites you should just use windows defender.
I haven't used anything but Windows Defender in years, and have yet to encounter any viruses during all that time. But I also don't pirate games or apps anymore, which was the biggest threat...
I haven't used anything but Windows Defender in years, and have yet to encounter any viruses during all that time. But I also don't pirate games or apps anymore, which was the biggest threat vector for me. ;)
YMMV, depending on what you regularly download and the kind of sites you visit though. If you frequently pirate stuff like I used to, it's probably still a good idea to have a second antivirus running, but otherwise it's likely overkill nowadays.
Even pirating games is safe anymore as long as you use one of the trusted repack sites or forums. It takes a little legwork to find those initially, but I assume most people are just googling for...
Even pirating games is safe anymore as long as you use one of the trusted repack sites or forums. It takes a little legwork to find those initially, but I assume most people are just googling for cracks so I suppose those people would still be in danger.
The general advice is to use Windows Defender as an active antivirus and manually invoke Malwarebytes for full disk scans when you feel like something is up. The free version of MB does this well...
The general advice is to use Windows Defender as an active antivirus and manually invoke Malwarebytes for full disk scans when you feel like something is up. The free version of MB does this well and non-intrusively, and I've caught adware that wasn't detected by WD in family and friends' devices with it. Additionally, if you have a single file or website that you think is particularly suspicious, you can check it with VirusTotal.
Running both as an active antivirus is not recommended. Third-party antivirus are often intrusive, resource-heavy (especially when both compete for resources and file locks), and function as an added threat vectors to your computer (see the CrowdStrike debacle, for instance).
Browsers or browser extensions from AV vendors tend to be particularly bad; if you want to protect your browsing experience, the single best thing you can do is probably to install uBlock Origin. But of course, do evaluate your own threat model to make decisions as you see fit.
I love this kind of weird useless posts. Thanks for sharing!
These blog posts remind me so much of what the internet used to be like in the mid to late 90s. Quirky, pointless pages but they all contained "important" things to the creator of said pages or sites. I remember making band "fan sites" on Geocities with bios and discographies, certainly useless but still fun none the less!
Malwarebytes blocked access to the page, claiming there was a trojan. Someone else may have more insight into why?
Because Malwarebytes is absolute shit these days?
I had no warnings pop up, and absolutely nothing shows up on a VirusTotal scan of the site:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/1913da405bf59e5d5f33dccba7856d171980a0239daaab1d2f5598f35b8386ab
p.s. You can report potential false positives here:
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/forum/122-false-positives/
Is it no longer much use? I've used it on top of Windows Defender for years, but I confess I haven't reexamined my security stance in a while. What's the current best practice for protecting an individual's PC?
Honestly, most antiviruses these days are more sketchy than actual malware. I think unless you're running random stuff from random sites you should just use windows defender.
I haven't used anything but Windows Defender in years, and have yet to encounter any viruses during all that time. But I also don't pirate games or apps anymore, which was the biggest threat vector for me. ;)
YMMV, depending on what you regularly download and the kind of sites you visit though. If you frequently pirate stuff like I used to, it's probably still a good idea to have a second antivirus running, but otherwise it's likely overkill nowadays.
Even pirating games is safe anymore as long as you use one of the trusted repack sites or forums. It takes a little legwork to find those initially, but I assume most people are just googling for cracks so I suppose those people would still be in danger.
The general advice is to use Windows Defender as an active antivirus and manually invoke Malwarebytes for full disk scans when you feel like something is up. The free version of MB does this well and non-intrusively, and I've caught adware that wasn't detected by WD in family and friends' devices with it. Additionally, if you have a single file or website that you think is particularly suspicious, you can check it with VirusTotal.
Running both as an active antivirus is not recommended. Third-party antivirus are often intrusive, resource-heavy (especially when both compete for resources and file locks), and function as an added threat vectors to your computer (see the CrowdStrike debacle, for instance).
Browsers or browser extensions from AV vendors tend to be particularly bad; if you want to protect your browsing experience, the single best thing you can do is probably to install uBlock Origin. But of course, do evaluate your own threat model to make decisions as you see fit.
Oh, I've got uBlock Origin as well. :D But good to know that I should leave Defender as the active antivirus.