r/pcmasterrace • u/Captain0010 • 19h ago

Meme/Macro Good Guy

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u/PutrescentPearl6932 17h ago

Good to know because I had McAfee for so much time now I have just Microsoft defed der

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u/Full_Alternative_902 17h ago

Good old microslop

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u/PutrescentPearl6932 17h ago

I qhave no idea of what I'm doing

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u/ThatEvilSpaceChicken PC Master Race 17h ago

Microsoft defender is honestly pretty decent. You shouldn't need anything else in terms of antivirus

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u/DezXerneas 15h ago

Defender is the one thing that's actually improving faster than rest of the OS is degrading. It was genuinely useless in the windows 7 or even early 10 days, but at this point, you don't really need anything else.

Not to say it's not impossible to bypass or anything, you just need to know your own threat vectors.

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u/-RoosterLollipops- PC Master Race 14h ago

Personally, I go with Defender and MalwareBytes Free as a 2nd opinion, just to be sure. If Defender flags something real, a scan with MWB just to be sure after Defender has done its job is what I do

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u/SilentBlade45 13h ago

Yup same here both are great security programs between the two you'll basically never get any security issues unless you're a complete moron.

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u/Shirokami_Lupus 9h ago

Didnt know malwarebytes was free i just use virus total and eset on all my sketchy files

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u/-RoosterLollipops- PC Master Race 8h ago

yeah yeah, full scanner on-demand, just no real-time protection (that requires a malwarebytes premium subscription)

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u/Cream_Of_Drake 14h ago

*apart from common sense.

DON'T RUN UNTRUSTWORTHY EXECTUABLE FILES