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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sun, 13 October 2024, 10:13:37

Title: Lighter antivirus
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 13 October 2024, 10:13:37

Avast is getting really bloated, and it breaks youtube playback on firefox sometimes.

What are you guys using?

Heard good things about bitdefender?

NE1 pay for antivirus? Norton?

Title: Re: Lighter antivirus
Post by: arthurw on Sun, 13 October 2024, 22:47:44

Windows defender and the occasional malwarebytes if I click on something sketchy.

Title: Re: Lighter antivirus
Post by: Coreda on Mon, 14 October 2024, 12:02:05

The lightest AV seems to be setting (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/) one's OS keyboard layout to an Eastern European language :p

Title: Re: Lighter antivirus
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 15 October 2024, 08:11:57

Quote from: Coreda on Mon, 14 October 2024, 12:02:05

The lightest AV seems to be setting (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/) one's OS keyboard layout to an Eastern European language :p

Has ne1 tried this? Works? Wouldn't microsoft detect you, and be like, hey this guy's a betrayer selling intel.

Title: Re: Lighter antivirus
Post by: Prelim on Tue, 15 October 2024, 09:33:22

nod32 (+ublock on firebox) on pc and just nextdns (w/ proper filters) on android