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Is MBAM better, or is microsoft defender enough if you download from trusted sources?

Do you consider Nyaa safe? (I'd like to get a visual novel or two that I haven't purchased on steam yet)

Regarding other games, I always used pirate bay and I've been fine, 10 years ago though. Are the website listed in the wiki generally safe?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Considering the majority of malware we have to deal with nowadays, your best defenses are:

  • A firewall that blocks everything by default. I use SimpleFirewall and give trust on a per executable basis.
  • uBlockOrigin, because dear lord navigating some sites is almost impossible without blocking all that shit
  • Avoid anything that asks for admin access
  • Keep an eye on resource usage and be on the lookout for any weird looking processes.

There was one time I downloaded a piece of shit that started to encrypt my drive. Since the CPU fan started spinning loud, I immediately checked task manager, figured what was going on and ended the malicious root process. Next, it was time to scour my folders, especially inside %appdata%, for any possible leftover executables. All clean, restart PC, everything was fine. I lost a couple of files, but nothing personal, just other downloads.

[–] neonmagician@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

ublockDefender

is this a new one? last Iheard gorhill was working on ublock origin

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Ops, my bad, fixed