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I was thinking, mbam, have you got other suggestions for Windows 10? Also, is there a good setup for when I'm running games I bought, and I don't need active scanning of threats? (Especially for legit games that use resources intensively)

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

cant stress this enough. read the tos on most antiviruses, they are free for a reason.

if you are on windows, use defender, its built in and enabled by default, so no need to worry.

use virustotal to scan files you download, and run it in a vm first if you still think it might be malicious.

[–] SpeedySparticus@feddit.dk 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This. Better not install any antivirus (other than windows defender) but ANY malware just a bit more sophisticated than something from a scriptkiddie can EASILY bypass windows defender. So please just don’t download from sites where you can download free games as all of those sites I have seem have malware in all their games. And remember just because you don’t see that there is a virus in your computer most malware just hide and silently mine bitcoin or other crypto and steal your credentials to for example discord

[–] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So any script kiddie can disable windows defender inside a PC with good group policies?. Defender I prefer it hardened, that a freeware antivirus. If you really are considering a security, setup Wazuh with sysmon alerta. A PC/instance with 2gb/vcpu for 3 agents is OK.

Maybe you can run X process AS other user with less privileges than SYSTEM.

[–] SpeedySparticus@feddit.dk 1 points 6 months ago

No what I am saying is that any hacker BUT a scriptkiddie can disable windows defender

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