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But is not Russian, just like Instagram is not Chinese.

To be fair, he provided instructions.

Avast Antivirus should be banned too, they did a lot of shady shit

I had a laptop with it preinstalled, when I wasn't a Linux user yet.

That video by late John McAffee was good. Even though he was a conspiracy theorist from the most clueless kind of libertarians - that kind who think they can go to a Latin American country with corrupt law enforcement and feel like alpha there. I mean, even if they can, one shouldn't mix up tourism and immigration, as they say in Russian.

i find it quite easy to remove....why is it that hard in your opinion?

This.

Most of the tech stack is american controlled and that is a security and privacy risk to everybody. From instruction set architecture to control over the social media. To American enemies, American allies.. american's themselves nobody is safe... probably the those that are best at mitigating said risk or take any steps at all are the American enemies.

Windows Defender + uBlock Origin with more filter lists + brain.exe in free tier

Built in Windows anti virus and don't be stupid

If you’re using Windows, the built in AV (Windows Defender) is actually pretty great. Maybe run Malware Bytes every now and then, (as in, install Malware Bytes, run it, then immediately uninstall it again). Between those two (and healthy browsing habits, like using an adblocker, not downloading random .exes, etc) will keep you protected. No AV in the world will be able to fully defend against bad browsing habits, so it all really comes down to that.

But this is Lemmy, so you’re bound to get buried in “just switch to Linux cuz Windows is a virus” stuff. And while that may be true, it’s clearly not the answer to your question.

The only real answer I’ve ever got from PC nerds is: None. You don’t need it. Just don’t be stupid. Easy.

Made me super uneasy when I was getting my first PC lmao

Nothing replaces common sense, but I've been using ESET for years now and have been really happy. Just the AV mind you, none of the other security suite bs.

Common sense.

If we're talking windows, ditch the OS. It's the virus itself at this point. It's like asbestos. We had some fun. It was useful. But now we all know that it is flawed from the start.

I use Linux and only install software from the official distro repository + verified flatpaks. No av, no worries.

I use linux

Not really https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/kaspersky-lab-antivirus.html

Very creative how Kaspersky used SEO to hide this story. When searching you have to exclude all of their sites to find it.

Sorta.

Kaspersky has had some really shifty behavior in the past and even appeared to be working in concert with Russian govt, so imo this is a long time coming.

The timing, however, is reactionary.

The only thing that would worry me is that he doesn't have to love the FSB (used to be KGB), he just has to love not being thrown out of a window enough to comply with whatever they may wish, like oh say a Russian state owned Trojan not being detected by it or something. Not that they're definitely doing that, but the possibility isn't 0%.

I mean it's basically the same reason I don't trust much of the US based proprietary software, just %s/FSB/CIA/g, the only real reason to trust one over the other is if you trust either agency more than the other IMO, otherwise distrust both.

especially considering eugene has no love for the kgb.

That may be a weird way to say he has lots of love for SVR (external intelligence service) or police K department, but not FSB.

Like that conversation in the "Sneakers" movie about FBI, CIA and NSA.