I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things…)

I’ve seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don’t recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I’m aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we’re all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    9 months ago

    AV software is usually the antithesis of security.

    Up-to-date software and especially not giving every random binary you find on the web execution permissions seemed to be much more effective.