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So... let's say a person still wanted to use an Antivirus product anyways, despite not really trusting them due to reasons like this article here; or anything you can say about Norton, etc, etc. What would you all suggest? Aside from McAfee, Norton and of course Kaspersky. I'm all ears. Some helpful hints though might be: 1. I don't want it giving me pop-ups constantly to remind me of a sale they are having. 2. It ca…
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Plenty of legit potential concerns.. Russian govt could "nationalize" Kaspersky at any moment and push rogue updates.
Shouldnt i have the same concerns with software from the US? You dont really have to nationalize to force devs to push malicious code (looking at you Australia)
So... let's say a person still wanted to use an Antivirus product anyways, despite not really trusting them due to reasons like this article here; or anything you can say about Norton, etc, etc. What would you all suggest? Aside from McAfee, Norton and of course Kaspersky. I'm all ears. Some helpful hints though might be: 1. I don't want it giving me pop-ups constantly to remind me of a sale they are having. 2. It ca…
Is there any point in using antivirus these days anyway? I'm open to being wrong here, but I'm under the impression that antivirus exists only to tick boxes in outdated security compliance checklists. How big of a threat are viruses compared to, say, rogue antivirus products themselves?
It surprises me how much many posters on Hacker News seem to be against using any sort of AV software - not even the built in Defender solution in Windows, if you have to use the OS for whatever reason, but i often see the sentiment expressed that supposedly the entire class of software is useless. What happened to defense in depth with all of the layers you can introduce? Surely if you run a Linux server, you might…
The tradeoff for having AV is having a giant application in admin land which increases the surface area available for an attack. Combine this with the that fact you don't get much protection because a virus can just be modified until the AV doesn't detect it and AV's just aren't worth it. This trade off made sense 20 years ago because OS's were less secure so you were increasing your surface area by relatively less than you are now.
The only software most Windows PCs need out of the box is TinyWall ( https://tinywall.pados.hu/ )
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No. You need to understand what you are comparing to. The question is comparing US and Russia. No. It’s not the same. But you turned this question into comparing US to perfection. Yes, you are right. US is not perfection. But there is a big difference between 70 to 10, even both are not 100. What Snowden revealed does not make 70 to 10. If you think that way, you don’t understand how bad an authoritarian regime is.
I put both russia and us at 10. Why would I rate it any better, given its past?
Could the Russian press behave toward Putin as the US press toward Trump? If so, then you can have your 10s.
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Russia can do it without any backlash from their citizens. U.S. can't do it to their own citizens without backlash. Differences in representation of population means different incentives.
The only backlash I saw is the backlash to snowden from its own country.
In a way I get it. I also agree with it. Europe should also try to reduce dependancy on American tech products for the scenario when the US becomes hostile towards Europe. A bit unlikely now, but you never know.