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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Is not having an anti-virus good for most people though?

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    most antivirus apps are very invasive, heavy on resources and even spy on you. Windows defender is usually enough. However, virustotal is still recommended

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Is this something that someone who doesn't have tech as a hobby cares enough about to change they're os?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

    I would say yes? Many if my friends in uni were using laptops that had McAfee built in. I'm not exaggerating when I say they were unusable. I removed that shit and those machines were snappy af.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

    On one side, if you have a brain you're fine.
    On the other side, *glances at general public typing google.com into google* ...yeah

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Anti-virus is not going to stop you from stupidity. You classic "Anti-virus" won't stop anything more than run of the mill simple stuff.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Most of the time that's what people need an antivirus for, most attacks the average person will suffer will be some script that's easily caught by the antivirus.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

    If the script doesn't have permission to do anything it doesn't matter. See Android as an example.