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Anti malware that can detect cracks and flag them as so, but can also distinguish from trojact and malware? Also, that can be configured to don't use too many resources when not required (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking, mbam, have you got other suggestions for Windows 10? Also, is there a good setup for when I'm running games I bought, and I don't need active scanning of threats? (Especially for legit games that use resources intensively)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

cant stress this enough. read the tos on most antiviruses, they are free for a reason.

if you are on windows, use defender, its built in and enabled by default, so no need to worry.

use virustotal to scan files you download, and run it in a vm first if you still think it might be malicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

what if the executables are large like all games basically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

VM with gpu rendering enabled (good emulation driver or passthrough), not enough for the best performance, but you can use software like fswatch (linux only, but windows certainly has something like it too) to see if the game will change anything on your system that it shouldnt.

the best course of action for games is finding a realiably safe source for them so you don't have to do this every single time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This. Better not install any antivirus (other than windows defender) but ANY malware just a bit more sophisticated than something from a scriptkiddie can EASILY bypass windows defender. So please just don’t download from sites where you can download free games as all of those sites I have seem have malware in all their games. And remember just because you don’t see that there is a virus in your computer most malware just hide and silently mine bitcoin or other crypto and steal your credentials to for example discord

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So any script kiddie can disable windows defender inside a PC with good group policies?. Defender I prefer it hardened, that a freeware antivirus. If you really are considering a security, setup Wazuh with sysmon alerta. A PC/instance with 2gb/vcpu for 3 agents is OK.

Maybe you can run X process AS other user with less privileges than SYSTEM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No what I am saying is that any hacker BUT a scriptkiddie can disable windows defender

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

you think even Goat websites in the megathread are unsafe?