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)
I can highly recommend using common sense and a vm
virtual machine for games, my pc is medium specs, dunno if I can do that. No problem with common sense, is there an answer to my question please?
Most antivirus especially the free ones are not good and are kinda malware themselves. What you can do is to not download from very sketchy sites and maybe try uploading the binary to virustotal. Maybe also check if the binary is very obfuscated
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 still think it might be malicious.
Any modern security program supports whitelisting.
You don’t want to have any active scanning for threats, like antivirus? If so, why?
because it affects the performance of games? For instance I play MMO and I don’t need anything security software related running while I play, am I thinking wrong?
If your computer is network connected you really really need antimalware running. In theory, a game server could be exploited and controlled to inject malware into game clients ( = you playing online).
If you use a browser to access internet, there has been malware infected ads that infect your computer when you visit legitimate web sites.
If you get infected, the malware most likely won’t do anything that makes you notice it. It all depends what the purpose of the malware is.
Ransomware? Then it stays hidden until it has encrypted all your files and then it pops up telling you to pay or you won’t be able to use your computer.
Collecting useful passwords? Getting full access to your Steam account is nice. Got some awesome weapons and armor in the MMORPG you play? That’s something they theoretically would script to be able to steal from you.
Or maybe the malware just stays hidden for now, contacting it’s control center now and then to see if there is any instructions.
Malware is business. The people behind it are businessmen and you are part of what they sell.
If you have a fairly modern computer there shouldn’t be that much impact on the performance.
If on Windows, Windows defender is more than enough for all of that stuff. It’s very effective, although does require an internet connection or it won’t do as well
Kaspersky and Malwarebytes are the top in the market I think
In recent years I’m very disappointed at antivirus software. I use a paid one, but I’m careful enough to not get into trouble, and they don’t alert for spyware/stalkerware and adware, but report and autodelete every single crack and keygen as their own category on the sole basis that they might be more risky.
At least it’s less resource intesive, I guess. Or it just knows better when not to do scans, but that shouldn’t be that difficult for defender either.
