Sciaphobia comments on Oh Yeah

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 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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[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago

When I was a strapping young lad, I would rather just reinstall the system in case of viruses than living with the antivirus software

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 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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