Antivirus General

1. What do you use?
2. What is a good free AV that protects novice users from possible threats and requires no interaction with it?

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My restore image is my antivirus

Kaspersky

I download from trusted repositories, use noscript when browsing strange websites, and keep my network ports closed when not in use

Oh and I don't use wangblows

I'd use mkfs.ext4 if I had too

gentoo

Common senses.
If you run Linux you shouldn't need one and if you run windows your OS is already malware so you don't need to bother to install a virus scanner (also malware) to stop the user from being a retard.

1. Eset
2. Kaspersky (although they have ties to russian NSA, so if you're comfortable with that then use it)

1. I'm not telling you.
2. Basically you are asking something impossible in every way.
>free
>good
>AV
>no interaction
You can't even choose two without them being mutually exclusive.

>KASPERSKY
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky-lab-has-been-working-with-russian-intelligence
chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-kaspersky-cyber-russia-spy-agency-20170703-story.html
usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/27/kaspersky-labs-offers-free-antivirus-amidst-russian-influence-concerns/513844001/
phys.org/news/2017-07-kaspersky-software-russia-ties.html

>You can't even choose two without them being mutually exclusive.
I thought about it too, but I also accept recommendations for AVs that are suitable for people who are just starting to use their first PC.

>1. What do you use?
nothing
>2. What is a good free AV that protects novice users from possible threats and requires no interaction with it?
the one included in windows

what's wrong with russian intelligence if they literally can't do anything
better russian than american

Avira.
Used to be great but they did some big UI changes and added ton of bloatware on top of popups who are becoming more frequent.
Im actually considering migrating to linux.

Let him use that Russian spyware shit.

maybe dont use a antivirus with ties to spy agencies, you fucking idiot?

ANTIVIRUS NOT ENOUGH

Windows defender
Microsoft Security Essentials

in exchange, install a firewall

>1. What do you use?
Clamav
>2. What is a good free AV that protects novice users from possible threats and requires no interaction with it?
Common sense 2017

give me one that doesn't have any ties with the american/russian/chinese government

kek

...

Common sense 2017

List of anti-viruses that are TARGETS for the NSA (read: Doesnt actively work with the NSA).

Linux + uBlock Origin + Common sense™ 2017 1st edition

commonsense-git from aur

Bitdefender.

>honestly, seriously thinking a security company that has been around since the 90s is going to completely destroy their reputation over "spying"

>ignoring evidence in favor of personal opinion
okay

probably because they work with Russia or China instead. your point?

>Countries allied with the U.S.
>Anti-virus based in these countries working with Russia and China

Okay

>installing a virus to protect from a virus

Why do people still fall for this AV meme? Just use Windows Defender and don't be a dumbass?

>noscript
What's a good Chrome alternative?

>Just use Windows Defender
Is WD actually doing anything?

uMatrix or built in javascript blocking

>logic

Thanks.

>russia and china is allied with the US

Linux
Linux

Gentoo

Arch.

Void

Suse?

Alpine

Ubuntu

Fedora

Mint

>Avira
Man they are beyond shit now. Been using Avira since 2007 and it used to be my go to snake oil AV since it gave me a lot more options than a lot of other AV. Now every fucking thing is considered a threat to them even with minimal detection settings. You could be using an old program or file for years and 1 wrong Avira update and it will considered it a threat. Its gotten to the point where even mmo's or anything mmo related are considered a threat and force quarantine the exe and to make matters worse, white listing does fucking nothing for Avira and looking at their site it seems to be a common problem. Wanna report false positives to Avira on their shitty site by uploading the file so they can inspect it? I hope your file is 50MB and under.

False positives are really bad at almost all mainstream anti malware programs,I only use them in case i drop my guard for a second or download something by miss click so it could save my ass.

1. None
2. If you're on Windows use the built in one, and just reinstall OS if you feel that you've fucked it up.

>noscript

False positives I can understand but with Avira, it just does not give a shit. It WILL quarantine your file reguardless of your white list and settings. The biggest problem with Avira is that it wants full control of your PC so any other protection you have(Malwarebytes, spybot, ect.) won't cut it for Avira. For things like scaning a PC you know for sure is infected with say the nonpaid version of Malwarebytes, Avria will jump right in and quarantine before Malware bytes has a chance to do anything making it even harder to remove infections from infected PC's.

Since when does uBlock stop malicious scripts from running?

1. Malwarebytes+common sense
2. Windows defender

>malware domains filter

Linux.

I'm late to this, aren't I?

Recommending Checkpoint from (((Israel))).
Good Goyim.

Was just about to use Avira, I had AVG installed previously but all the ad-ware garbage is absurd (even for a paid user)
inb4 paying for an antivirus, I'm overly paranoid. I've scanned files from trusted sites in Virustotal, then Malware and AVG before using them but AVG is terrible with popups
Also I can't distinguish very well what's a falsepositive and an actual Trojan
Cheat Engine for example, a bunch of flags on Virustotal but nothing on Malwarebytes/AVG
Common Sense and Windows Defender won't let you know what type of potential threat a file is, and you won't look into it deeper
And granted yeah I can just use Virustotal for everything but sometimes I want security without having to check every single file (AKA thousands)

nothing.
bitdefender free.

Common Sense 2018

Fake news. Muh russians.