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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 line
by 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 agoI’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 agoAny tips on how to remove it from Windows 10 without installing an