Home Anti-virus
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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.
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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....
Exactly. All these "free" things being suggested would cause me to have to invest in new hardware, learn VMWare/KVM/XS etc, all just so I can check email or look up info on google. Or I could take the free webroot license I own, apply it to my current machine, and mission accomplished. All the above suggestions also destroy my work/life balance (no interest in loud ass, power sucking virtual host machine hosts in my house). It's like trying to invent a new desalinization process when all you really need is to stick a barrel out to gather rainwater.
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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....
I don't think it's possible with any x86 machine that has <15 years. Even a Pentium 4 can do regular virtualization (no hw assisted) with virtualbox or vmware… I'm pretty sure of that!
