I've never used antivirus (other than defender). AFAICT, I wasn't ever affected by a virus with one exception, the Blaster (or Sasser) worm. This was before Def

I've never used antivirus (other than defender). AFAICT, I wasn't ever affected by a virus with one exception, the Blaster (or Sasser) worm. This was before Defender existed. On the other hand, whenever I use a machine with an antivirus, I want to quit my job. Those things are slow. Very slow. My work machine has a multitude of security software that I can't disable, heck, I can't even touch. Doing a pip install on a common program takes 10, 15 minutes. The same installation on my personal machine takes about one minute. The culprit? The 3 different agents that spins out of control scanning my disk.