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Any super smart threat people reading this? Does anti-virus matter anymore? I haven't installed one for years, on Windows, Mac or Linx (decades?), it's unclea

• h2onock 8y ago
  No Anti-Virus on a Windows machine!? Are you a maniac!?
  • zingmars 8y ago
    It's not the 90's anymore, getting a virus is pretty hard. Hell, it wasn't really all that easy in the first place, unless you pirated or installed shady software from shady ads on shady websites.
    • bluedino 8y ago
      Not really. Still happening every day with home users and corporate america. Botnets still have tens of millions of PC's and CryptoLocker is as common as ever.
• giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I dont either. As long as you limit what you download to open source and block ads (which were the main way I ever gog malware) you should mostly be safe. On Windows I leave only the default antivirus from Microsoft at least it will catch some stuff. Also with stuff like Steam and only downloading major games I should be fine. Most of my owned games atm are pretty old.
• setquk 8y ago
  I see it like this. If you're a single user, effective offline backups are probably a better investment. It's not that bad starting from scratch if you have all your data. It takes me about an hour to throw a usable build onto my laptop. However corporate networks where the damage has a big multiplier may benefit from it and you certainly don't want to be asked all sorts of questions about whether or not you had a risk mitigation in place if something does happen.