I was thinking, mbam, have you got other suggestions for Windows 10? Also, is there a good setup for when I’m running games I bought, and I don’t need active scanning of threats? (Especially for legit games that use resources intensively)

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    4 months ago

    cant stress this enough. read the tos on most antiviruses, they are free for a reason.

    if you are on windows, use defender, its built in and enabled by default, so no need to worry.

    use virustotal to scan files you download, and run it in a vm first if you suspect it might be malicious.

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      4 months ago

      This. Better not install any antivirus (other than windows defender) but ANY malware just a bit more sophisticated than something from a scriptkiddie can EASILY bypass windows defender. So please just don’t download from sites where you can download free games as all of those sites I have seem have malware in all their games. And remember just because you don’t see that there is a virus in your computer most malware just hide and silently mine bitcoin or other crypto and steal your credentials to for example discord

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        4 months ago

        So any script kiddie can disable windows defender inside a PC with good group policies?. Defender I prefer it hardened, that a freeware antivirus. If you really are considering a security, setup Wazuh with sysmon alerta. A PC/instance with 2gb/vcpu for 3 agents is OK.

        Maybe you can run X process AS other user with less privileges than SYSTEM.