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Comment by buzzardbait

8 hours ago

I haven’t had anti-malware software on Windows for over 10 years.

If you’re computer literate then you don’t need it regardless of which OS you use.

If you’re not computer literate and you click on every link that comes your way, not even the holy spirit of Linus Torvalds himself can save you from threats. So this claim is misleading at best and dangerous at worst.

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zokier  7 hours ago

> I haven’t had anti-malware software on Windows for over 10 years.

Unless you have gone through hoops to remove it, you most likely were still running Windows Defender Antivirus.

  • buzzardbait  7 hours ago

    Fair. I was thinking of third party anti-malware that I have to go out and get, not something that is tightly integrated into Windows itself and enabled by default.

    Also, I don’t need the antivirus portion of Defender since I don’t click on executables or install apps willy nilly. It’s very light and silent so I wouldn’t go out of my way to turn it off. Plus the firewall is also part of Defender.