/g/ is all antivirus software just a meme?
Literally why does anyone use it? You can just:
>Keep all your personal files on a pendrive.
>Keep an installation image of your OS of choice handy on another pendrive.
>If things start looking fishy, migrate any and all documents to your files pendrive, boot from your installation pendrive, and reinstall the OS.
That's literally all there is to it. Safe. Effective. Independent, no nonsense. It's honestly a mystery why it's not more widely used.
Unique needs? Own a server, perhaps, or a business computer, with a particular desirable configuration that's a pain to setup over and over again every time things go to shit? No problem, just reinstall from a compressed backup image of a known clean and working system setup, instead of from the official installer. Easy peasy.
Because not everyone is tech-savvy
Hard to believe huh?
The problem lies when things start looking fishy. Once you migrate your documents you might migrate the virus as well.
>>61842509
>Literally why does anyone use it?
dumb winfags
>>61842509
Protogent isn't. Saved me loads of timed.
>>61842509
>why eat healthy food and exercise?
>just get some surgery to fix yourself if some bad happens
Prevention is better than cure.
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>>61842509
Some industries have regulatory or contractual obligations to have endpoint protection installed.
>>61842509
>/g/ is all antivirus software just a meme?
it helps against old/common stuff, but does nothing (at best, some AV makes you more vulnerable) to protect from targeted attacks.
>>61842509
I usually run malwarebytes on a weekly basis but I don't use one that runs in the background.
>>61842509
Only use apps from ur distro repo or just build it