I’d been following it for a while but I didn’t expect it to be anywhere near as special as it was when it finally released
I’ve been using a Chromebook since 2016, but I’ll need to switch to a Windows laptop very soon for work reasons. I’ve used Windows 10 at work and more recently at school, but I haven’t owned a Windows machine since around 2006. So my quick question is whether Windows Defender is enough these days for anti-malware?
generally yeah
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I have pretty much only heard people say the opposite about windows defender
but it probably just depends on how careful you are
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fwiw I was definitely recently infected with malware and windows defender did not catch it at all
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Thanks for the replies, I’ll consider them while deciding whether Windows Defender is probably fine for problyfine.
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infosec people have always insisted to me that third party av is more of a security problem than having nothing at all so i’d stick with defender and more importantly making sure you never turn off ublock origin innit
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I use Defender + Malwarebytes and have thankfully not had a malware intrusion in almost ten years (I forget when Defender came out, I was using Kaspersky before that)
this has always been what I thought but since I had this problem most recently it seems people overwhelmingly recommend malwarebytes if you must have something like that installed.
I don’t know what I did to get infected, it must have been from a torrent or something. I def had ublock origin active though.
It is fine but in the last year, there have been two incidents where a patch of theirs would magically eat up all of memory if your computer was on for too long and took down some mission-critical machines at work so I am wary of their quality control
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Yeah, not running .exes from untrusted sources is way more important than adblocking. Web browsers do a much better job at sandboxing malicious javascript than Windows does at sandboxing malicious native code.
The one time I got a virus, it was from a torrent.
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schedule your computer to create a restore point each week and before installs.
Windows does have sandboxing now
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Anyone know a good free Windows program to use when moving large amounts files between drives?
Actually, do we have a thread that’s just for recommending computer programs and mobile apps to help our modern technological lives?
rsync
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command line…
i’ll try to learn for a few minutes at least
genshin impact’s a chinese (i think) open world action rpg that looks colourful and nice, and some guy destroyed his ps4 over it too. it seems like the kind of thing we should be talking about, but we’re not. is there a reason, or has it just escaped everyone’s notice or something?
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do you care about Breath of the Wild? do you care about games ripping it off, I mean, really just lifting the whole damn style and feel of BotW?
do you think BotW would be better with big titty animes instead of Highly Androgynous Link?
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I have found that windows defender will actually steal lots and lots of cycles (like, maxing out an additional CPU thread) from programs it really should be automatically trusting in order to do its “realtime protection”
I still wouldn’t turn it off and it’s probably a partial artifact of my insisting on running a 3570K forever because relatively old CPUs tend to lack exactly the instructions that make this background stuff more efficient, but I have had to manually whitelist a bunch of stuff when I notice it’s hitting the CPU too hard
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Thanks I’ll keep an eye out for that