(Poll) Is you antivirus always actives and why not?

[BrianGrug]

Ima be completely honest, i disabled my anti-virus a solid year ago. I run my own network security through a home server, I run pi-hole, I have a firewall running, and no ports are forwarded to my router. I run scans every now and then, i’m always (and i mean always) in task manager, so unless it injected itself into a host process (which i wouldn’t doubt, any basic encrypter? don’t quote me i haven’t thought about this in a whole basically what skids that make rats call obfuscation). i also came to the personal realization that my home network isn’t a big enough target damn near my computer being a big enough target for some advanced meltdown attack or that other one. there’s also simple reasoning behind this and it’s because i run so many programs and i hate opening up the vm telling them yeah it’s fine then continuing. yeah i know i’m inpatient

Source: Me, i used to be a script kiddy who was proud of my auto generated viruses an rats

 

[BrianGrug]

seems a little much, literally just install malwarebytes and enable windows defender, good enough.

if there’s programs you use that get falsely flagged just add them to the exempt list

I mean, it’s not solely for my computer, I have a multiple vms with proxmox

 

[Oliver]

People buy antiviruses? I haven't had one since I was like 10 and I've been fine.

 

[Ghast]

People buy antiviruses? I haven't had one since I was like 10 and I've been fine.

How would you know?

 

[Porpsy]

I'll casually run it every one in a while, but keeping it active just bothers me!

 

[BrianGrug]

still excessive

I really don’t think so, especially when it comes to client security and my security as well

 

[Oliver]

How would you know?

Because I don't download random stuff or get cracked software. My computers have been fine.

 

[Stelios]

If you didn't answer yes, you might as well go ahead and re-format your PC.

 

[Ghast]

Because I don't download random stuff or get cracked software. My computers have been fine.

That’s the issue. Nowadays you don’t even have to download stuff to get a virus. A simple website or security failure in one of the websites you visit could compromise you.

 

[Oliver]

That’s the issue. Nowadays you don’t even have to download stuff to get a virus. A simple website or security failure in one of the websites you visit could compromise you.

Guess I've just been lucky then.

 

[Ghast]

Guess I've just been lucky then.

Once again, how would you know?

 

[kojoti]

Yes, I use Acronis Backup, in my opinion, one of the best out there. It makes an image of your computer so your data is always protected and safely stored in the cloud.

 

[Oliver]

Once again, how would you know?

I don't but that's why I said "guess".