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> MS Defender never caught a single virus/piece of malware anyway in all those years. How do you know? MS Defender just doesn't advertise itself with warning p

> MS Defender never caught a single virus/piece of malware anyway in all those years. How do you know? MS Defender just doesn't advertise itself with warning popups every other day because it's not Microsoft's business model. Not to mention it likely isn't even close to being the most resource draining part of Windows. > The goal being reducing a lot of the background work constantly being done on my Windows machine, which makes it real loud for seemingly no good reason whatsoever, as if I was mining Bitcoin when I'm just surfin' the damn web. Well if you don't want it to sound like a Bitcoin miner turning off the antivirus isn't going to help. The more likely reason for the fans spinning up are bloated websites.

xp84 4y ago
> bloated websites. Bingo. If anything, the best thing you could do for security and performance on your computer would be to get pretty strict about ad blocking. I am not even concerned at all about the “privacy” aspect that obsess some people (“OH NO, I start to get car ads when I’ve been shopping for cars, creepy big brother!!!”), I just push back really hard on the state we are in where when you load a webpage of any kind today. About 0.5% of the CPU cycles, RAM, and bandwidth are being used to render the contact you’re there for, 20% to parse 187 npm packages that the front end developers decided they needed to load at all times, and the remaining 79.5% is used for various forms of adtech. Like, how do I need 72 MB of code to display a single article from CNN or something? I agree that it’s very possible that you don’t really need any kind of native virus scanning software especially if you don’t click links from random strangers or hang out on seedy parts of the web likely to have 0-day exploits on them (and you’re blocking ads too, since it’s not unheard of for that actors to buy us to direct traffic to their 0-day exploits)
- xp84 4y ago
  > contact => content > that actors => bad actors > buy us => buy ads I deeply apologize for trying to use Apple's abysmal dictation or its swipe keyboard, whichever was responsible for this

xp84 4y ago

> bloated websites. Bingo. If anything, the best thing you could do for security and performance on your computer would be to get pretty strict about ad blocking. I am not even concerned at all about the “privacy” aspect that obsess some people (“OH NO, I start to get car ads when I’ve been shopping for cars, creepy big brother!!!”), I just push back really hard on the state we are in where when you load a webpage of any kind today. About 0.5% of the CPU cycles, RAM, and bandwidth are being used to render the contact you’re there for, 20% to parse 187 npm packages that the front end developers decided they needed to load at all times, and the remaining 79.5% is used for various forms of adtech. Like, how do I need 72 MB of code to display a single article from CNN or something? I agree that it’s very possible that you don’t really need any kind of native virus scanning software especially if you don’t click links from random strangers or hang out on seedy parts of the web likely to have 0-day exploits on them (and you’re blocking ads too, since it’s not unheard of for that actors to buy us to direct traffic to their 0-day exploits)

xp84 4y ago
> contact => content > that actors => bad actors > buy us => buy ads I deeply apologize for trying to use Apple's abysmal dictation or its swipe keyboard, whichever was responsible for this