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I hate all antivirus software and always try to disable them as soon as I can. They enforce their own values and ideology, and they do terrible at respecting us
by renonce 5y ago
I hate all antivirus software and always try to disable them as soon as I can. They enforce their own values and ideology, and they do terrible at respecting users.
Once I had to do disk imaging on a very slow drive. After the imaging was 10% done, it complained that one of the files contained a malware and aborted. I found that it was Windows Defender that was blocking access to one of the files, so I went to Settings and turned off Real-Time Protection, and did disk imaging again. This time the imaging was 80% done before it aborted. The Real-Time Protection turned itself on because it reached time limit. F**k you, Windows Defender. It took me another four hours to find out how to disable it completely because neither registry keys and group policy worked, and its service can't even be turned off. I had to use a third-party tool called dControl to turn it off completely. And interestingly, dControl was flagged by Windows Defender as malware (for the apparent reason that it was designed to disable Windows Defender).
Modern approach to protecting computer systems is to design software that is already secure and isolate programs using privileges and sandboxes. NO antivirus, please, they're just bad because they're a blackbox, and all blackboxes are destined to be bad.