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Slight tangent, strawpoll on what everybody prefers for their Antivirus these days. Corporate and personal. I've been using ESET for years and anecdotally never

Slight tangent, strawpoll on what everybody prefers for their Antivirus these days. Corporate and personal. I've been using ESET for years and anecdotally never had any issue.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
Sophos has pretty solid offerings, their free level of home protection is fairly comprehensive. Windows Defender is adequate though now. I like Malwarebytes, if you just want to run scans without background protection its free.
EliRivers 8y ago
You know, I've pretty much stopped using them. Haven't had one installed on a Win machine for a few years. I take a handful of basic precautions along the lines of closing ports, installing OS updates, having my eMail text only and passive, disabling a few things on the web browser and never downloading/running anything suspicious. It's been good enough that the last time I installed a new Win, a dedicated antivirus didn't even occur to me. On occasion I'll run a malware finder when I'm seeing odd behaviour and want to be sure, but I can't remember the last time there was a genuine positive find.
- 52-6F-62 8y ago
  I’m pretty much in the same boat here for a few years now. I believe I ran some Symantec search tool once when things seemed off and was able to install a targeted removal tool by them and remove them afterward. Same principles with my macs. Any Linux machine I use tends to be virtual and pretty blackboxed save web, ssh, and ssl ports. (And maybe a port open connected to a database)
- pnutjam 8y ago
  Any tips on how to remove it from Windows 10 without installing an
AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
Haven't used one in years. Windows Defender is good enough for most things. If I suspect my computer might be infected with something, I might run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan, but it's strictly as-needed. I don't have any realtime protection.
thrower123 8y ago
Just Defender. Some bozo at work stumbled onto some questionable sites and got whacked with a cryptolocker a few years back, and in response to that, we had to run WebRoot for a while, and that was just awful - it may not be intrinsically terrible, but as configured here, it was centrally administered through as SAAS web app, and configured so that it wouldn't show any UI on users' machines - which ended up meaning that when it would false-flag something benign, it would pop an invisible modal window that locked out the machine for two or three minutes until it timed out. Every time you build a project... And especially excruciating with anything that used NPM and downloaded half the internet, because the real-time scanning would get swamped. Thankfully, after a few months of struggling, we got some exemptions.
vbezhenar 8y ago
I'm using built-in Windows antivirus and never had any problems. I'm usually not running shade executables, so I think that it's adequate protection (I'll check exe with virustotal if I'm not sure about it). Otherwise I'd use Kaspersky, I guess, my Internet provider provides me a free license for it or something like that.
vxNsr 8y ago
Stopped using antivirus around 2010, I'm just careful about what I download and haven't had an issue. Since Windows 10 ships with defender I've used that.

Slight tangent, strawpoll on what everybody prefers for their Antivirus these days. Corporate and personal. I've been using ESET for years and anecdotally never had any issue.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

Sophos has pretty solid offerings, their free level of home protection is fairly comprehensive. Windows Defender is adequate though now. I like Malwarebytes, if you just want to run scans without background protection its free.

EliRivers 8y ago

You know, I've pretty much stopped using them. Haven't had one installed on a Win machine for a few years. I take a handful of basic precautions along the lines of closing ports, installing OS updates, having my eMail text only and passive, disabling a few things on the web browser and never downloading/running anything suspicious. It's been good enough that the last time I installed a new Win, a dedicated antivirus didn't even occur to me. On occasion I'll run a malware finder when I'm seeing odd behaviour and want to be sure, but I can't remember the last time there was a genuine positive find.

52-6F-62 8y ago
I’m pretty much in the same boat here for a few years now. I believe I ran some Symantec search tool once when things seemed off and was able to install a targeted removal tool by them and remove them afterward. Same principles with my macs. Any Linux machine I use tends to be virtual and pretty blackboxed save web, ssh, and ssl ports. (And maybe a port open connected to a database)
pnutjam 8y ago
Any tips on how to remove it from Windows 10 without installing an

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago

Haven't used one in years. Windows Defender is good enough for most things. If I suspect my computer might be infected with something, I might run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan, but it's strictly as-needed. I don't have any realtime protection.

thrower123 8y ago

Just Defender. Some bozo at work stumbled onto some questionable sites and got whacked with a cryptolocker a few years back, and in response to that, we had to run WebRoot for a while, and that was just awful - it may not be intrinsically terrible, but as configured here, it was centrally administered through as SAAS web app, and configured so that it wouldn't show any UI on users' machines - which ended up meaning that when it would false-flag something benign, it would pop an invisible modal window that locked out the machine for two or three minutes until it timed out. Every time you build a project... And especially excruciating with anything that used NPM and downloaded half the internet, because the real-time scanning would get swamped. Thankfully, after a few months of struggling, we got some exemptions.

vbezhenar 8y ago

I'm using built-in Windows antivirus and never had any problems. I'm usually not running shade executables, so I think that it's adequate protection (I'll check exe with virustotal if I'm not sure about it). Otherwise I'd use Kaspersky, I guess, my Internet provider provides me a free license for it or something like that.

vxNsr 8y ago

Stopped using antivirus around 2010, I'm just careful about what I download and haven't had an issue. Since Windows 10 ships with defender I've used that.