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possibly, but I am just contempt on updating. I don't do anything illegal on this computer. I use it for browsing and playing games on steam, I think I am pretty safe.

You can really avoid like 90% of the shit by...

* Not going on shady sites

* Not getting scammed via Phishing

* Not pirating (you know, its really funny how most illegal 'patches' say, oh yeah patch is detected as trojan and its a false positive)

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> * Not pirating (you know, its really funny how most illegal 'patches' say, oh yeah patch is detected as trojan and its a false positive)

Sadly i have seen various legit tools trigger the same warnings, because the developer used similar low level techniques that malware use to hide their true nature.

Basic thing is that at the CPU level all instructions are legit. And then we pile code upon code on top to try to extract the context and intent of the programmer from the behavior of the code.

In a sense that can quickly devolve into computer "racism".

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