Most antivirus I tested, even the paid ones, are so annoying with popups and complaining about cracks that I just take the risk and go without em
How do you know you never had malware if you have no means to check for malware? It’s not like it will announce itself.
There’s a lot of malware that just chills in the background and hides itself well (e.g., auto-shuts down whenever task manager is opened), and does little to impact you aside from using some of your system’s resources.
Think being part of a botnet used for DDOS attacks, or a cryptominer that runs whenever you aren’t using much of your hardware’s capabilities.
I’ve also been online and pirating for 25+ years and your bragging horseshit is hilarious
Fuck off mate, we’ve all had browser toolbars and had to reinstall windows multiple times in the past. Not so common now but before it was part of the deal
Don’t be a dick, you’re not impressing anyone
Have you considered getting NordVPN? A YouTuber told me it protects against 100% of hackers
He’s downloading cracks or cracked executables
The cracking groups aren’t exactly signing their work with a verifiable public key
probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or something
If u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable
