Do you need an anti-virus?
There's literally no reason to use anything other than barebones Avast (Uncheck all the options when you install) and MBAM.
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Are you sure? How do you deal with the viruses then?
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LOL Better patch that kernel ROM with some homebrew build.
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Yes. Ugh those nasty rats. Here's an easy quick simple solution for any average PC user.
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I honestly doubt the usefulness of antivirus softwares. I have been going without an antivirus software for more than 2 years now and never had any malware/trojan/virus. I only visit a set of familiar safe sites, no dodgy activity so I guess common sense is the best antivirus maybe?
If there is anything seemingly harmful I can look for it using standard windows tools (registry, msconfig, safemode etc)
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I literally haven't used an always-on AVS on my personal machines since W.32/Sasser.
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As a not very techy person, it's really baffling looking at all these comments from all these people advocating this method or that method, this software, that software, lack of software... do this, don't do that. This is better, that is bad, use this and you're stupid, use that and you're smart... etc. etc. etc. Like holy jeez. And they're usually so firmly convinced they're right too.
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Apparently it flags itself as a virus, leaving your PCs bricked. Although to be fair all anti-virus are prone to false positives...
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