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Oh Yeah (lemmy.world)
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[–] 76 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I had someone here on lemmy literally tell me that history doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t pay attention to it. The ignorance was fucking astounding.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren't necessary and a waste of processing power.

    Can't really reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Were they arguing that extra antivirus wasn’t necessary? Cause windows built in has been better than alternatives for years now (well, idk about 11, but 7, 8, and 10 all had good antivirus).

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's been long enough I don't think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows' built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    That could have been me... I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn't know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn't boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately a lot of AV “solutions” on Windows are proprietary which makes it a no for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Are there any open source av programs, and any that don't cost money?

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