Edit: typo
Tbf windows defender is pretty good.
It has to be, Otherwise Windows would have succumb to microsoft’s antisecure culture by now.
Anti-secure culture? Things have changed a lot since the days of Nimda, SQL Slammer, etc.
It is fucking horrible with false positives though. RIP if you have a Kali ISO sitting on one of your drives.
That and the Antimalware service executable gets hung up and chugs 30-50% of your CPU and RAM and won’t stop.
Most Windows Programs running with root access is like, I don’t know… Windows XP era maybe?
Windows ME was the last edition to make this assumption. NT was never like that.
UAC was introduced with vista, IIRC in xp any program would inherit the privileges of the user running them
Probably pre-SP2 for that matter.
That thing literally saved Windows, as most users would otherwise have had to install shitty freeware like Avast or pay for premium antivirus solutions, basically paying to try to close loopholes that Microsoft made in the first place.
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I almost opted to move my parents to use Linux instead of Windows because of how much time I was spending on fixing the malware and viruses they’d get. Then enter Windows Defender. Now all I have to deal with is when they get the occasional scam call… “Yes, it’s Bob from Microsoft, you need to wire us $900 to fix a virus.”
Windows NT 3.5 and later NT 4 had C2 security certifications - assuming the system was not connected to a network, and didn’t have floppy drives (this was before USB was a thing).
Dang, a post from 1999!
The typo is Windows with a capital W, the rest is just not true, please don’t lie😜
Yeah it literally pops a screen sized warning when anything tries to run as admin. Linux is very vulnerable as well. Hackers are just really good at what they do.
i am going to turn your skull into pasta
How is it whenever I see a post about ‘what anti virus should I use’ people are always saying ‘just use defender - def don’t use avast!’
Because if you’re gonna use an antivirus, Defender does just fine.
They all more or less use the same viral signature database and definitions, and are mostly feature-matched with each other. Why look beyond what your computer came with unless you’re installing something integrated with an RMM tool?
Does Smartscreen upload your .exes ? I disable its internet access and would be stupid if it only uses that to download databases or stuff.
It takes a hash.
Looking at Kenny most Linux users seems to be clueless fanboys
I would argue most Linux users have no clue they’re Linux users.
I think they’re probably just young and enthusiastic. I was like that about linux 20 years ago when I had the energy for it.
