You might give Linux a look. It has come a long way since 1996 when I started messing with it. I currently use PCLinuxOS, but that's just me. (I prefer my Linux systemd-free... and PCLinuxOS is easy to set up and configure for desktop/laptop use.)

@@horusfalcon The one reason that prevents me from going to Linux is my Steam library.

@@TheRocco96 I get that, but dual-boot is always an option.

Main cause of the worlds BSODs.

Windows is Spyware. Linux based operating systems are much nicer and more stable.

Well, they are anti-Russian. I suppose sending your data to the FSB is no worse than sending to any of a half dozen western spook agencies.

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Get rid & scan with virustoal free from microsoft use by developers to find viruses in large companies computers.I will bet that the Kaspersky is infected believe me i know.I have destroyed many laptops because of these anti virus programmes & i learned the hard way you dont need anti virus just make sure you up date your device when up dates come up.Anti virus programmes find thing that don't exist its all a scam.Learn to use CMD very powerful to keep device clean & working properly & learn about RUN.

I think you did right. I also use ESET.

I use Kaspersky. No complaints.

Yeah. No thanks to Big Tech.

not always intertaining or easy to watch, really this is not,. Netflicks , hes talking about virusus,.duh..!

@@petakarini7567 It's about more than just viruses and what a scam the anti-virus industry has become. The invasion of our privacy is the stock-in-trade of certain Big Tech giants: remember MAGA-FT?

thats why he basically told everyone to not be a dumbsss and to stop clicking on everything. of course this will never stop people from clicking on things

giving advice stop visiting shady web and stop using AV is like giving advice drive carefully, and at the same time stop using seat belts. it's better use all good advices, not just some of them

@@user-od4gs3iu4tyeah and disconnect from the internet cause it’s the place where Malwares comes from

do banks own anti virus companies?

My android phone can do this exact thing😁

TinyWall is such a Windows program that is very lean and works quite well. Not open source though IIRC.

It's called a firewall

Mac has one called little snitch.

Wireshark?

me too! and i was more and more desperate. All started in 2001, i was in an University campus, and what i did not know back then, some students, later to be recruited for intelligence agency, they were schooling us in the need for antiviruses. Nothing was even decent patch. I grew desperate. In 2006 i abandoned all and any antiviruses. Learned to do some neat configurations, and all worked much better.

@@RStark-ek7mh Norton was making problems, and was signaling solving problems it did not solve

@@RStark-ek7mh How nice of Norton. Microsoft often call me on the phone to tell me I've been hacked and help me fix it - even though I have been using Linux based systems for 20 years. The nice people that call me don't appear to know what Linux is and they persist in trying to help me . Then they get horribly confused that I don't have all these Micro$oft utilities installed and give up. They waste hours of time but are very nice about it.

That you know of, lol.

@@stackflow343 nope. I still gave more than one neuron to be able to spot a problem when it's there.

thanks!

@@HouseAndLotFinderph One more bit of advice: I have 3 email addresses. One of them is specifically for personal correspondence (friends, family, etc.). Another is professional (job related, banking, buying/selling goods and services, etc.). The third address is my trash account. This is the account I use for any site that requires an email address to use the site. This is also the address that will be sold by those sites to people who will send spam, or attacks. When I check the trash account's inbox, I don't read anything. I just delete all messages since I know for a fact that nothing in that inbox is important. That's another layer of protection.

When you say "lock down your browser", do you mean using browsers like Brave, or do you mean using a browser in a sandboxed environment? If so, how are you supposed to save your bookmarks or even cookies? Or even have a download? (booksmarks can be solvable and cookies can be solvable by logging in, into things you use most, before activating the sandboxing.)

@@millanferende6723 By locking down your browser, I mean using blockers (such as uBlock Origin) that prevent popups, executables, and things of that nature. Those won't affect your bookmarks, but you should limit cookies for it to be more effective. You could of course also run a VM environment, but you wouldn't be able to save any bookmarks, or cookies once you close the session. While running a VM is the most secure, it's also going to remove some conveniences. There's a trade-off you have to make to balance security with user experience on websites. Most of the website attacks seem to be launched via automatic executables from visiting a page, or clicking on a page's content. I've tested my configuration by going to sites that are known to be sponsored by hackers such as pirate sites with video to see if their attacks get through. The blockers have halted every attempt thus far over the years. Some blockers are better at blocking some things better than others, so I use several.

Dumb people like you “trust” that all your “trusted” web pages and services will never get hacked, which is not the most logical or bright idea!

Well, AVs actually do monitor for malware in memory. The difference is that usually the free versions of the software won't have this option. You actually have to buy a subscription to get that in most versions of AV. Thing is that they can be fairly pricey unless you shop around. You have to actively search for the bargains and usually you won't be able to find the bargains when it comes time to renew. So if you find a reputable one (do the research first) then get it for the 2,3 or 5 year subscription and don't renmew, just rebuy it ir a different version, Its well worth it; I'm very tech savvy but to be frank there is just no way that I could find the time to manually look for a malware infection on any of the systems that I am responsible for. (Some brands are not ever going to be reputable, after they pull some of the sideways stunts like mentioned in this video. Yes there is 'some' truth to what he says in the video but really he's just pushing his opinion way past what I would assert is responsible, in my opinion).

Exactly. That's why we sometimes get false positives.

The whole video is filled with misinformation and plain lies

it's not a useful video. he is giving terrible advice. running a computer without antivirus is only for the most experienced that also doesn't do an elaborate amount of testing. and perhaps for those who only use their computer to check the clock.

@@MalhaIIa You are completely wrong. Beyond what he covered in the video, it also increases the attack vector on your system. Only tech illiterates should use AV software. Also, what kind of testing do you run that requires AV present? Unless you are actually testing AVs, in which case i'd hope you'd be using a container or VM

@@jn2002dk FYI. windows, games and general software half the time come bundled with malware. what are you, tending to the protection of your crypto farm?

@@MalhaIIa So you have no answer to my question? Figures. Also, no, games and software does not come bundled with malware half the time. Wtf are you on about? What tests do you run that requires an AV? I would love to hear your answer but i suspect i will never get it because it would expose that you have no clue about opsec and infosec

@@jn2002dk if you are looking to argue maybe choose a better place. you were answered. you even replied to it with gibberish.

What if you install a new program? Is it gone after a reboot? Why not?

​@you just enable it, and if it's not safe reboot, and if it is safe flip the switch and turn it off.

@@duplicake4054 What's to stop a virus switching the "flip" himself?

@ Himself?! Btw I think I made a mistake. To turn it off I think you have to reboot and it will get rid of all the changes anyway

I Use Reboot Restore. It's free.

Not a bad idea

Hi bro did u just watch the whole vid ?

😅 still u got avg

ut the antivirus monitors everything you do in your device. A physical key to your hoyse is more like software encryption for your OS. An antivirus would be some guard you hire to see everything that happens in your place and what you do as well.

Windows Defender is normally fine but its the 3rd parties that you should never give access to your entire computer for minimal protection. its basically the same arguments surveillance states use to justify surveillance. you sacrifice privacy for perceived security. you should never have to sacrifice one to get the other

bruh, this video is fake, ALWAYS USE AN ANTIVIRUS OR YOU WILL REGRET IT SOMEDAY.

You can delet windows defender with a script

I switched to Linux 2 years ago and am using Zorin OS. I'm not super techy just a user who does things on his computer, browsing, email, writing, FB etc. I installed Zorin because it works so much like Windows and the UI is beautiful. I also run Virtual Box from Oracle (creates virtual machines) and installed Windows 7 Pro on it. If there is anything I must have and its only available on Windows I can install in on the virtual machine.

Norton is a computer virus of itself. Remember from year 2000s in school days Norton scan all your data also displays shown it own Norton files being as affected. Which is why I never buy Norton products.

I tend to agree. It's to protect people who are going to do really dumb things with their computer. I don't trust AV programs and don't use them often, but I have also seen them fail when people have used them. I think most viruses are taken out on the internet, these days, unless you seek them out. I know I rarely run across them these days compared to years ago when I helped tons of people "clean" their PC's.

no it is telling people to stop being reckless, which using av is. should tell them to switch to linux too.

Seatbelt manufacturers pitch there product as (perceived) substitute for traffic sign awareness. Which qualifies as malicious imo. Framing software manufacturer responsibility into a customer recklessness metric doesnt help at all. my tinfoil hat even thinks theres a pricetag on the hidden file extension default policy. Could be illegal but what do i know.

@@wchen2340 Reminds me of a seat belt ad the state paid for that I heard. (gov't ads are a grift, but that's another story) They made the mistake of putting statistics in the ad and I would point out that the statistics say that more people die _wearing_ their seat belt, than not wearing it. The ad wasn't up long, lol.

To be safe from terrorist attacks on a plane you should carry a bomb, because is statistically very unlikely to have two people carrying bombs on the same aircraft. :-P That translates to malware terms almost intuitivly^^ @@l337pwnage

Don't listen to the haters.. Who don't know what the heck they're talking about. Or even know what any techie already knows. Of what non-techie people who aren't sophisticated - like me - who are computer illiterate.😅 Seriously. Yikes! Degoogled smartphones are a start. Problem is,HOW do you start looking what works and what doesn't? This is especially true for people who really want to learn as much as they can. So many things that almost all popular, well-known brands like 🍎 and what? Other computer software and hardware companies WON'T ever tell you. Thanks.

Boot sector stuff should be handled by the Clonezilla solution. And yes a reformat may be necessary if you're installing from scratch.

@@robbraxmantech The only reason I've been using Avast! is because it has a Boot Scan feature, but I'm thinking of uninstalling it after you demonstrated it making a fake certificate (in another video). But isn't there a way of running it from a thumb-drive (as a portable) and not have to actually install it?

​@@charlesrichards5389I am going to research this question.

Just wait until you get malware in the firmware of your system or a device. Or worse, hardware malware installed in supply chain attacks. Good luck.

Thats alright. I believe you and you are absolutely right about that. There are also worms that will spread to network shares or other computers in a network. You will get no argument from me, I know better. Thing is about these folks who don't use AV: I am left wondering how they could ever know whether or not they have malware running on their system. They could be going for years acting as if they are fine until one day someone has all of their info and is either using their credit cards or a bunch of credit cards that they used their info to obtain... Seems a bit unreasonable to me.... One would never really know for certain so how can they claim success? Where I have known when malware has attempted to run on my system; it only takes that one time that you don't expect it, which is always if you swear by never needing AV in todays world. Nope, not me and I am tech savy, just a bit more humble than most, apparently and have no problem admitting it.

A fresh install guarantees that. Windows defender can run to clean up kiddie viruses.

Antivirus = data collector.

i think you mentioned the "process injection" or sort of things like that. afaik many av vendors have different mechanism to detect and protect system from that. some vendors also provide anti-exploitation using function hook combines with other stuff. meanwhile Windows defender has a great system emulator so it can have good detection rate against obfuscated/encrypted malware

@@dmknght8946 Ares DLL works without any issues with standard Defender - it doesn't seem to care. Comodo & ZoneAlarm will *instantly* complain and block Ares.

@@HouseAndLotFinderph that is only the case for some antiviruses, there are a lot of really good ones though that do not collect your data.

​​@@HouseAndLotFinderphbruh you are on YT, the internet and a computer. It's all data collection.

but what is the purpose? Can't stop zero days.

@@robbraxmantech True, but it could catch the 1000's of other things that aren't zero day. I'd think that zero day exploits are probably pretty rare compared to all the known stuff out there. Sounds like you don't agree though.

​@@WastedHalojust have a clean install. back it up by clonezilla, and dont use antivirus. it collects data. well if u dont have back up now u will push the idea of antivirus.

@@robbraxmantech Hi Rob, I agree for those with any PC commonsense but say in the case of PC illiterate folks like older parents, the AV surely has benefit when doing a probability/risk assessment?

Like Rob, I gave up using antivirus years ago and I'm never going to click anything that could be dodgy. Sometimes however, I need to know if a file I have downloaded (eg. shareware, old drivers etc.) might contain any of the 99.9% of malware that isn't zero-day and for that I use VirusTotal - a free website you upload your suspect file(s) to have them scanned by all the leading anti-virus programs. It first calculates a hash on your local machine so uploading may not even be necessary, making the result instant (though you can force upload/rescan if you think it's necessary).

Still garbage. They miss too much & give a false sense of security.

I think the bulk of this video just went by you. I quit using AV at least 15 years ago, and have had zero issues.

The bulk of the video is lies

And your money.

How about like chips and hardware from manufacturing installed on the phone spying on you? Now way govt agencies dont secretly have something on there?

What constitutes clicking on "something" other than attachments please? For example, if I am reading an article displayed on Google News that includes a photo, is clicking on the photo to enlarge it risky? Thank you.

Not for an image displaying you should be ok. If the site is hacked and you clicked through to the article and then another link a hacker added to look legit. It could be a trusted brand.@@babyvlad007

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You can just go to the website brax.me also. You can download an app directly from brax.me site or from apkpure.com

​@@robbraxmantechIt's saying also that the APK file may be harmful...🤔🤔

"Yes, I agree. Zero day threats will infect your system regardless of you using or not using an antivirus" That's not at all what he said in the video. What he said is that antivirus products typically don't protect you from zero day exploits and depending on them for protection puts you at risk. What he's advocating for is being smarter in how you use your devices and this is the best protection against zero day exploits. Malware always has to do at least 2 things to infect a system. It has to somehow get onto the system. Then it must execute. If you don't allow those 2 things to happen even a zero day exploit is no threat. If you do allow those things to happen, it's questionable, at best whether any antivirus software can undo the damage. "I use antivirus because I have nothing to hide from authorities" As long as you completely agree with everything the "authorities" say and obey their every command, you'll be okay, but the moment you beg to differ, things change. " I live in a democratic country and I don't yet fear losing my freedom yet." Democracy, assuming of course it's even real and not just an illusion of democracy, doesn't protect you from tyranny. History is full of examples of the majority willingly supporting tyranny and oppression.

@@stefanl5183 No. What he implied was that you shouldn't use antiviruses at all and your own discretion can keep you from being infected. I disagree, just as most IT experts in the market. "What he said is that antivirus products typically don't protect you from zero day exploits and depending on them for protection puts you at risk". Yes, they can't defend you properly from something no one has seen yet and I agree their products should be more effective on the heuristics analysis. But this is the exception, not the rule. Most people WON'T find zero day threats. "Malware always has to do at least 2 things to infect a system. It has to somehow get onto the system. Then it must execute. "..." if you do allow those things to happen, it's questionable, at best whether any antivirus software can undo the damage" The idea of the AV is to prevent the damage, not repair it. Yes, if you got infected, you are probably f***ed. Norton power eraser can only do so much lol. Also, I agree. That's why I said you should KNOW how to defend yourself on the internet. But you see? Most people don't have the slightest idea of how the internet work nor how their device work, and we can't force the common guy to do so. So, what are we gonna do? Tell this guy to not use antiviruses even if he is a normal person i.e not insurgent? Tell him not to use it and leave him at the hands of criminals? Also, how do you deal with a threat if you are in a shared network with people that don't know how to use a computer, but insists on not using an antivirus regardless? If he is infected by a strand of petya/notpetya, wannacry or others YOU will be infected too. Prepare your acess control really well and do it really carefully, else you WILL lose your data. Let's be frank: no one's system is perfect. You will need to do compromises to your security to use some apps, acess some sites (for example, I know a bunch of educational sites that don't work at all with a browser other than Chrome) etc. And when this happens? What is your protection? Also, one must be *very* paranoid to keep track of every single connection your device does, because this is how you will be able to see if you really are safe. For me, there is a sweetspot between safety and fully blown paranoia. "As long as you completely agree..." Completely agree? In any healthy democracy I can criticize the govt. This enters in my confort zone since I am a lawyer where I live. You can talk whatever crap you want IF you don't commit crime while you do so. You also can't accuse someone without having proof, it's crime. You can't threat the supreme court just like a congressman from my country did a while back because you can't threat no one, enters the category of crime as well.

@trixiek942 Ah god... Read my first comment and try to grasp the idea. Specially the last paragraph. It has nothing to do with the concept of democracy, it has to do with something else entirely: knowing how to hide from abusive authorities. You can't live in total anonimity unless you are a criminal using fake documents so... yeah. You don't need to be paranoid at all. It sounds hella cool to be all anonymous and have this "out of the box" view of the world, but this, in practice, is madness. Learn the paths. Know your sh1t. You will be safe. Everyone is a Marighella until the govt breaks down and the state's iron fist punches society's face. Then those "i'm out of the box" guys vanishes like piss being flushed down the drain, cuz they are kids.

not USA@trixiek942

​​@trixiek942and how does that help protect you. Democracy is just mob rule.

Why is it that I never get a virus? All I do is NEVER click on an attachment. In any case, if you want a more active protection, you can use a OS clone (Clonezilla) or a virtual machine

Use a firewall instead

@@duplicake4054 use a firewall instead of an Antivirus or instead of Quad9 DNS? How about a trusted VPN? Worth using for increased privacy?

not instead. Just activate all the Defender features and this is a good enough protection, which include firewall (not great, but something), antivirus (not bad), HIPS (not the best, but better than nothing), and some other features. In addition to this you can indeed use a secure encrypted DNS request. There are many settings in your system where you can configure it, individually or for your system-wide usage. Another good utility is a filter list like ublock origin. You might want to get a VPN if you connect from untrusted internet provider (like in hotel or any public hot spot), or you want to pretend that you are from another country, to avoid some limitations of service based on your location. All these useful stuff can be installed, activated and properly working altogether, increasing your overall security and adding a bit of privacy as well

Thank you for your insight. Regarding a secure encrypted DNS provider, is it best to implement that at the modem/router level so that all your devices that connect benefit? @@user-od4gs3iu4t

@@jim8790 it seems easier to configure just once your router, however it may depends. Some routers don't even have such an option (if they are cheap and have less functionality) you may want also to have your devices to configure individually, if these are mobile devices like smartphone or a laptop and you use them somewhere else away from home. I personally prefer installing Portmaster, it has many security utilities, including filter list and secure DNS, thought it's main function is a firewall (and a nice one). Some secure DNS providers give you options for additional filters. For example, Mullvad that I'm using now as a main DNS (quad9 is a backup) there are five options, the most secure blocks even social media )) Just try what suits you best, and don't forget to check that your DNS test doesn't have any leaks. This can be done from the web page of a DNS provider

Air conditioner maintenance, model trains, Barbie dolls, even background chech (credentialing) sites. I've found malware lurking in the most unlikely web sites. Virtual machines and sandboxes are still your friends.

Exactly. This guy just acts like he knows what he is talking about but hasn't a damn clue

After you do a clean install, do the settings the way you like, install the software you like and use regularly, and MAKE A BACKUP. Keep the backup somewhere safe, on a portable drive. Keep all your personal files on a different drive/partition from windows. No more clean installs. Problems with windows: reinstall the backup to the windows partition and you are good to go. You don't need any more backups of that partition, just of your personal files which you can copy/paste. I like redo rescue.

That's not how it works, it can read how a file is executed, not what a file has inside it.

@@ivanrivera777 Nah, to scan files you have to actually read the individual file and compare it against a table of virus signatures.

I made no exceptions to my statement. ZERO exceptions

Noted!@@robbraxmantech

Be careful if the host is Windows because of the fear of client side scanning.

bruh there is no antivirus hoax, this video itself is a conspiracy theory.

Go to sleep earlier then & don't click things when you are tired. Problem fixed. You are relying on a technological crutch to save you from your own laziness/incompetence/negligence.

Kinda falling into confirmation bias. Just because one rando on the internet agrees doesn't make it correct. Personally, I think it's a fool's errand. Many viruses can enter through security exploits while following all the rules, without any noticeable trace. So pick your poison.