Home Anti-virus
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So I'm having some ridiculous issues with Avast Free AV and I'm considering switching to something else.
Details here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=203267.0What have you got for AV?
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Webroot.
Speaking of I need a renewal key. . . if only @Nic still worked with them.
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@nadnerB said in Home Anti-virus:
So I'm having some ridiculous issues with Avast Free AV and I'm considering switching to something else.
Details here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=203267.0What have you got for AV?
Why use an AV at all? I've never ever had problem with virus. Maybe the only time was an omicron virus for ms-dos in 1996. I was 7, the infection vector was a floppy with prince of Persia.
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@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@nadnerB said in Home Anti-virus:
So I'm having some ridiculous issues with Avast Free AV and I'm considering switching to something else.
Details here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=203267.0What have you got for AV?
Why use an AV at all? I've never ever had problem with virus. Maybe the only time was an omicron virus for ms-dos in 1996. I was 7, the infection vector was a floppy with prince of Persia.
Because browsing the internet can be dangerous.
Webroot is the jam.
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I use Sophos at home. They have 5 licenses for free. Supposedly its the same as their business product. I've not had any infections yet, that I know of.
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Windows Defender.
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@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
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@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
And I use a regular windows machine with webroot, also no problems. Different strokes. Also, the OP asked for antivirus recommendations, not a total home computer infrastructure change.
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@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
Yeah I just throwaway entire datacenters when I need to have a clean internet browser.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/datacenter_scale.png
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@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
I do the same thing. It doesn't even feel much different than just using a browser when using VMWare workstation. Copy and paste, drag and drop work flawlessly between OS(es). Want to copy a file from a windows vm to ubuntu vm? Just drag and drop.
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@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
And I use a regular windows machine with webroot, also no problems. Different strokes. Also, the OP asked for antivirus recommendations, not a total home computer infrastructure change.
I won't expose a windows host to free internet surfing, regardless of the AV in use.
A light browser-VM today is a free, simple, extremely secure and effective way of doing security-by-separation. -
@DustinB3403 said in Home Anti-virus:
@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
Yeah I just throwaway entire datacenters when I need to have a clean internet browser.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/datacenter_scale.png
Pshh who recycles datacenters? We just throw away the planet when it goes bad.
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@coliver said in Home Anti-virus:
Windows Defender.
When I use Windows, this is what I use. It works perfectly well, it's free and fully integrated. For home users, I don't see any value to replacing it.
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Of course, Linux is the best AV
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@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
@Francesco-Provino said in Home Anti-virus:
@RojoLoco said in Home Anti-virus:
Webroot is the jam.
I just use a disponsable, self-resetting VM for internet. No problem whatsoever.
And I use a regular windows machine with webroot, also no problems. Different strokes. Also, the OP asked for antivirus recommendations, not a total home computer infrastructure change.
I won't expose a windows host to free internet surfing, regardless of the AV in use.
A light browser-VM today is a free, simple, extremely secure and effective way of doing security-by-separation.Then you might as well go with either Qubes OS or KVM on top of a Linux distro. My I suggest Korora? Its pretty popular around here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Anti-virus:
@coliver said in Home Anti-virus:
Windows Defender.
When I use Windows, this is what I use. It works perfectly well, it's free and fully integrated. For home users, I don't see any value to replacing it.
That's my thinking. Traditional AV is outdated and having a hard time keeping up with threats. Why spend a massive amount of money on something that is only going to work slightly better.
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@IRJ & @Francesco-Provino That's all fancy, spankeriffic, and all but my hardware is incapable of virtualisation....
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@nadnerB said in Home Anti-virus:
@IRJ & @Francesco-Provino That's all fancy, spankeriffic, and all but my hardware is incapable of virtualisation....
Check your BIOS. It just maybe disabled.
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@nadnerB said in Home Anti-virus:
@IRJ & @Francesco-Provino That's all fancy, spankeriffic, and all but my hardware is incapable of virtualisation....
How is that even possible?
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Anti-virus:
@nadnerB said in Home Anti-virus:
@IRJ & @Francesco-Provino That's all fancy, spankeriffic, and all but my hardware is incapable of virtualisation....
How is that even possible?
My bad. I was thinking type 1. Type 2 does work. I hate it but it works.
