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Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doe
by trilila 7y ago
Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.
- chmod775 7y agoWindows with its built-in Windows Defender and your Common Sense 2019 Computer Professional Edition is going to be enough nowadays.
- trilila 7y agoAs a rare windows user (two or free times a year) i never trust a machine without an av. maybe things changed, but i see windows as so unsafe that i would not even login with to regular email, let alone make online payments. I simply see that os as a vulnerability by default.
- chmod775 7y agoI don't run Windows myself, but honestly: Remote exploitable Windows vulnerabilities on a default install are somewhat rare nowadays. MS has come a long way here.
- trilila 7y agoI remember the smashing the stack for fun and profit windows days. It was so easy to inject shell code it was laughable. Btw can you still name a file smss.exe, run it, and not end the process with the task manager?
- yrro 7y agoI just tried this on Windows 10 1903 and had no problem ending the process with task manager.
- kipqi 7y agoYou live in the XP days.
- jowsie 7y agoThe majority of the Windows haters I come across seem to be the same.
- trilila 7y agoI see windoze fanboys are having a leg-day today. Enjoy your ads and spying. Oh an the virii.
- jsjohnst 7y agoI haven’t ran Windows outside a VM (and only then for FPGA/ASIC programming tools) in the better part of a decade myself and loathe every second of the time I do run it in a VM, yet I still think you are out of line here. Maybe consider cooling off before posting more?
- trilila 7y agoSpecifically, what is bad in pointing out windows is a security liability, and a low quality os generally speaking? Along with blunt user spying though ads inside a product you paid for? Something tells me i stepped into a vicious fandom of that os.
- kipqi 7y agoSorry to tell you that you simply have no idea of what you're talking about.
- cameronbrown 7y agoMate, seriously? Windows itself has come a long way to be considered stable. The real risk is user-space applications, like.. AV's.
- trilila 7y ago*AVs
- rosege 7y agoUnfortunately common sense is not very common
- ancarda 7y agoJust to clarify, does Common Sense 2019 Pro come with an ad-blocker for protection against malvertising? I still run into a lot of people who think malvertising isn't a thing. It was worse back when flash adverts were common, but it's still really bad
- martin_a 7y agoInstall them uBlock Origin and 99% of the problems are gone.
- johnfisher57 7y agofortunately, but how will these AV industry survive is the question?
- cannedslime 7y agoWindows really isn't as bad as its reputation when it comes to security. It goes for windows as it goes for any other OS: Don't install crap you cannot trust. Don't run everything as root (UAC). Think before you give anything elevated rights. I have seen my share of ridiculous security flaws in ALL OS'. Anyone remember when you could login on any mySQL server by simply trying enough times? That wasn't windows specific! (back in 2012!)