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That's fall out from the 90s. People hunted for keygen.exe for their sharewares. And some rouge sites will collect many keygens, attach backdoor program with th

That's fall out from the 90s. People hunted for keygen.exe for their sharewares. And some rouge sites will collect many keygens, attach backdoor program with those and then distribute from their site or over bit-torrent. Anti-virus then would scan those files. Looks like modern ones simply delete any such named file without scanning.

0x0nyandesu 5y ago
And this is why the first thing I do with winblows is disable defender. So much for that.
- hulitu 5y ago
  It serms that antiviruses today have only antifeatures. The last time i saw an antivirus detect malware was more than 10 years ago. Now the only protection against viruses is common sense, a good backup and another OS to recover what's left after the disaster strikes.
  - UnFleshedOne 5y ago
    The problem is that you also need backup bank accounts and probably a backup identity after disaster strikes...
    - hulitu 5y ago
      This depends on your online presence. Even if malware touches my computer it has no access to bank accounts and the amount of personal info is low. I still have to find a better email provider than yahoo or gmail for receipts.
  - 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
    Honestly I've been over it for years. I do real work on Linux and MacOS. Windows is for a handful of games I can't play on Linux. Everytime I try to use windows for work I end up with issues caused by windows update that blows out chunks of my work day.
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
    A friend that worked at an antivirus company told me they had a whole division whose task was to write viruses. This helped then to gain on competitors in the benchmarks "which antivirus detects more viruses"
josephcsible 5y ago
Non-braindead antivirus software would look for the backdoor programs rather than the keygens themselves. Though as time goes on, I become less and less convinced that there's such a thing as non-braindead antivirus software.
- e3bc54b2 5y ago
  Its not even braindead, just plain lazy. Although I have to agree with your second sentence.

0x0nyandesu 5y ago

And this is why the first thing I do with winblows is disable defender. So much for that.

hulitu 5y ago
It serms that antiviruses today have only antifeatures. The last time i saw an antivirus detect malware was more than 10 years ago. Now the only protection against viruses is common sense, a good backup and another OS to recover what's left after the disaster strikes.
- UnFleshedOne 5y ago
  The problem is that you also need backup bank accounts and probably a backup identity after disaster strikes...
  - hulitu 5y ago
    This depends on your online presence. Even if malware touches my computer it has no access to bank accounts and the amount of personal info is low. I still have to find a better email provider than yahoo or gmail for receipts.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
  Honestly I've been over it for years. I do real work on Linux and MacOS. Windows is for a handful of games I can't play on Linux. Everytime I try to use windows for work I end up with issues caused by windows update that blows out chunks of my work day.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
  A friend that worked at an antivirus company told me they had a whole division whose task was to write viruses. This helped then to gain on competitors in the benchmarks "which antivirus detects more viruses"

josephcsible 5y ago

Non-braindead antivirus software would look for the backdoor programs rather than the keygens themselves. Though as time goes on, I become less and less convinced that there's such a thing as non-braindead antivirus software.

e3bc54b2 5y ago
Its not even braindead, just plain lazy. Although I have to agree with your second sentence.