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Comment by Joeri

7 years ago

A major performance improvement is adding the working folders for my coding projects to the exclusion list of whatever antivirus solution is running. On low-specced machines I disable AV entirely, because I feel these days it is mostly snake oil anyway with zero days being commonplace.

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computerex  7 years ago

Uhh what? Software is probably more secure now than ever before. I don't think AV software is snake oil at all.

  • cmurf  7 years ago

    UEFI Secure Boot, mandatory signed binaries, and Windows Defender (XProtect on macOS), have contributed more to protecting from malware than 3rd party anti-virus. Although I think the existence, cost, and PITAness of 3rd party anti-virus might very well have contributed to motivating the OS vendors into securing their products better.

    • Wowfunhappy  7 years ago

      It should be noted, I believe the parent comments included Windows Defender as an anti-virus. 3rd party was never specified, and disabling Windows Defender can indeed improve file access performance.

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    • computerex  7 years ago

      Source? I thought UEFI was just a way to make Linux a pain in the ass to dual boot with Windows? What's your evidence that it's effective against malware? I am biased here, and hate uefi.

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