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Felttipfuzzywuzzyflyguy commented:
My reply:
As a guy who hasn’t used an AV software since 2008, I totally agree (anyone remember the air screamer sound effect from Silent Hill + Kaspersky 6.0?) What’s crazy is that when I tell people that I don’t use AV software, they assume I’m a reckless noob who’s looking to get hacked, but the truth is, I don’t like software messing with my workflow by blocking stuff I know is safe, kind of like how George R. R. Martin still uses Wordstar 4.0 because he loathes spellcheckers. I use something that others might consider even more annoying, that is, an interactive firewall, so nothing gets Internet access without my say-so, note that the most dangerous threat is “internetborne”, if you will; I discovered this on my own while I was checking out NetLimiter although the point of using NetLimiter was QoS on the OS level early on. This method is not for the faint of heart, because once you get used to it, you get that same feeling of superiority as Linux users. Lol Jokes aside, I care more about convenience than I do security, but that doesn’t mean I don’t drag n’ drop a shady file to VirusTotal when I have my suspicious or run it on a VM and see what it does or use any[dot]run every now and then. I just think that the way some people promote stuff about security/privacy feels very predatory, so the way I do things is like a middle finger to them to the point where even if I got hacked into oblivion, I still wouldn’t let it bother me. In fact, it would be fun to rebuild everything. I’m weird like that. Also, around that time, I was 13, and yet I taught myself to remove malware manually, because I realized that most malware is made by people, and since people are predictable, nothing is really that difficult to get rid of once you know where to look, but still, like Chairman Go from Solo Leveling said, “Stay humble and afraid.”Another short comment:
As a guy who hasn’t used an AV software since 2008, I totally agree (anyone remember the air screamer sound effect from Silent Hill + Kaspersky 6.0?) What’s crazy is that when I tell people that I don’t use AV software, they assume I’m a reckless noob who’s looking to get hacked, but the truth is, I don’t like software messing with my workflow by blocking stuff I know is safe, kind of like how George R. R. Martin still uses Wordstar 4.0 because he loathes spellcheckers. I use something that others might consider even more annoying, that is, an interactive firewall, so nothing gets Internet access without my say-so, note that the most dangerous threat is “internetborne”, if you will; I discovered this on my own while I was checking out NetLimiter although the point of using NetLimiter was QoS on the OS level early on. This method is not for the faint of heart, because once you get used to it, you get that same feeling of superiority as Linux users. Lol Jokes aside, I care more about convenience than I do security, but that doesn’t mean I don’t drag n’ drop a shady file to VirusTotal when I have my suspicious or run it on a VM and see what it does or use any[dot]run every now and then. I just think that the way some people promote stuff about security/privacy feels very predatory, so the way I do things is like a middle finger to them to the point where even if I got hacked into oblivion, I still wouldn’t let it bother me. In fact, it would be fun to rebuild everything. I’m weird like that. Also, around that time, I was 13, and yet I taught myself to remove malware manually, because I realized that most malware is made by people, and since people are predictable, nothing is really that difficult to get rid of once you know where to look, but still, like Chairman Go from Solo Leveling said, “Stay humble and afraid.”Another short comment: