Malwarebytes 4 years of protection for $5 with Student Beans discount code

lovestt wrote: ↑ Is this for one pc only?

anatman wrote: ↑ I'm a little surprised that people still think they need antivirus. It's literally modern day snake oil. Actually worse than snake oil, because it costs you money and actually decreases your security posture. As the old Roman saying goes, "to injury you add expense".

Windows Defender is infinitely better than any third party solution. Not only are its detection rates as high or higher than everything else, it doesn't hook into your system in the brutal hacky way that most (all?) third party AV does--which just ends up creating more security/stability/privacy problems than its two-bit, ex post facto, hash-based detection could ever be worth. I'd recommend reading up on what Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero security researcher) and other pros say about antivirus. Security people tend to be brutal on antivirus vendors, but it's totally justified.

Have sensitive documents on your computer? If you have AV, files the AV deems suspicious (like ones that it hasn't seen before) are automatically uploaded to the cloud for further analysis. Congrats, if you have an AV you've basically installed a rat that is silently exfiltrating files from your system without your knowledge (basically how Kaspersky got NSA hacking tools).

Want to be pwned without even doing anything? Most AV engines are incredibly badly written and full of exploitable problems. When you install and AV that automatically decides it's going to start doing things like scan your email, you're now passing all your emails through a badly written engine. So email that you wouldn't open in a million years, gets opened automatically by the AV exposing it's scanning engine to any malicious payloads in the attachments. (Symantec had a huge issue with specially crafted email attachments being able to pwn a system without the user having to open anything).

Most AV will also obnoxiously install a private key into your trusted key store that lets it look into your encrypted traffic, basically breaking the foundation upon which all internet security is built, and exposing users to man-in-the middle attacks.

For the love of god, never use a third party AV. If you really want an AV, use Windows Defender and run on-demand scans.

anatman wrote: ↑ I'm a little surprised that people still think they need antivirus. It's literally modern day snake oil. Actually worse than snake oil, because it costs you money and actually decreases your security posture. As the old Roman saying goes, "to injury you add expense".

Windows Defender is infinitely better than any third party solution. Not only are its detection rates as high or higher than everything else, it doesn't hook into your system in the brutal hacky way that most (all?) third party AV does--which just ends up creating more security/stability/privacy problems than its two-bit, ex post facto, hash-based detection could ever be worth. I'd recommend reading up on what Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero security researcher) and other pros say about antivirus. Security people tend to be brutal on antivirus vendors, but it's totally justified.

Have sensitive documents on your computer? If you have AV, files the AV deems suspicious (like ones that it hasn't seen before) are automatically uploaded to the cloud for further analysis. Congrats, if you have an AV you've basically installed a rat that is silently exfiltrating files from your system without your knowledge (basically how Kaspersky got NSA hacking tools).

Want to be pwned without even doing anything? Most AV engines are incredibly badly written and full of exploitable problems. When you install and AV that automatically decides it's going to start doing things like scan your email, you're now passing all your emails through a badly written engine. So email that you wouldn't open in a million years, gets opened automatically by the AV exposing it's scanning engine to any malicious payloads in the attachments. (Symantec had a huge issue with specially crafted email attachments being able to pwn a system without the user having to open anything).

Most AV will also obnoxiously install a private key into your trusted key store that lets it look into your encrypted traffic, basically breaking the foundation upon which all internet security is built, and exposing users to man-in-the middle attacks.

For the love of god, never use a third party AV. If you really want an AV, use Windows Defender and run on-demand scans.

drpepper1 wrote: ↑ Except malwarebytes is not antivirus. It’s antimalware. For win10 recommendation is that AV is no longer necessary but anti malware still recommended.

hesp wrote: ↑ i got my MB lifetime license from ebay for like $3 after the coupon code

goozy1 wrote: ↑ FYI those are not genuine keys. I know you feel better because you are "buying" it but the seller is just using a keygen and ethically it's the same as pirating. May as well pirate it for free if you want to go that route.

anatman wrote: ↑ I'm a little surprised that people still think they need antivirus. It's literally modern day snake oil. Actually worse than snake oil, because it costs you money and actually decreases your

anatman wrote: ↑ I'm a little surprised that people still think they need antivirus. It's literally modern day snake oil. Actually worse than snake oil, because it costs you money and actually decreases your security posture. As the old Roman saying goes, "to injury you add expense".

Windows Defender is infinitely better than any third party solution. Not only are its detection rates as high or higher than everything else, it doesn't hook into your system in the brutal hacky way that most (all?) third party AV does--which just ends up creating more security/stability/privacy problems than its two-bit, ex post facto, hash-based detection could ever be worth. I'd recommend reading up on what Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero security researcher) and other pros say about antivirus. Security people tend to be brutal on antivirus vendors, but it's totally justified.

Have sensitive documents on your computer? If you have AV, files the AV deems suspicious (like ones that it hasn't seen before) are automatically uploaded to the cloud for further analysis. Congrats, if you have an AV you've basically installed a rat that is silently exfiltrating files from your system without your knowledge (basically how Kaspersky got NSA hacking tools).

Want to be pwned without even doing anything? Most AV engines are incredibly badly written and full of exploitable problems. When you install and AV that automatically decides it's going to start doing things like scan your email, you're now passing all your emails through a badly written engine. So email that you wouldn't open in a million years, gets opened automatically by the AV exposing it's scanning engine to any malicious payloads in the attachments. (Symantec had a huge issue with specially crafted email attachments being able to pwn a system without the user having to open anything).

Most AV will also obnoxiously install a private key into your trusted key store that lets it look into your encrypted traffic, basically breaking the foundation upon which all internet security is built, and exposing users to man-in-the middle attacks.

For the love of god, never use a third party AV. If you really want an AV, use Windows Defender and run on-demand scans.