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Comment by trilila | Hacker News Reader

Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.

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Windows with its built-in Windows Defender and your Common Sense 2019 Computer Professional Edition is going to be enough nowadays.

As a rare windows user (two or free times a year) i never trust a machine without an av. maybe things changed, but i see windows as so unsafe that i would not even login with to regular email, let alone make online payments. I simply see that os as a vulnerability by default.

I don't run Windows myself, but honestly: Remote exploitable Windows vulnerabilities on a default install are somewhat rare nowadays. MS has come a long way here.

I remember the smashing the stack for fun and profit windows days. It was so easy to inject shell code it was laughable. Btw can you still name a file smss.exe, run it, and not end the process with the task manager?

I just tried this on Windows 10 1903 and had no problem ending the process with task manager.

You live in the XP days.

The majority of the Windows haters I come across seem to be the same.

Sorry to tell you that you simply have no idea of what you're talking about.

Mate, seriously? Windows itself has come a long way to be considered stable. The real risk is user-space applications, like.. AV's.

*AVs

Unfortunately common sense is not very common

Just to clarify, does Common Sense 2019 Pro come with an ad-blocker for protection against malvertising? I still run into a lot of people who think malvertising isn't a thing. It was worse back when flash adverts were common, but it's still really bad

Install them uBlock Origin and 99% of the problems are gone.

fortunately, but how will these AV industry survive is the question?

Windows really isn't as bad as its reputation when it comes to security. It goes for windows as it goes for any other OS: Don't install crap you cannot trust. Don't run everything as root (UAC). Think before you give anything elevated rights.

I have seen my share of ridiculous security flaws in ALL OS'. Anyone remember when you could login on any mySQL server by simply trying enough times? That wasn't windows specific! (back in 2012!)

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