I have default windows defender, but didnt even know its antivirus lol. Is there any antivirus installed by default on any popular linux distro? What do you use?

I feel like antivirus can just annoy me when trying to crack something, but maybe defender protects me and im not aware.

  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    Windows Defender is enough. On your web browser you need uBlock origin. This means you need to use Chrome or Firefox as your web browser. *edit: Don’t bother with Chrome. Use Firefox. Someone replied to me with convincing reasons to just skip Chrome altogether.

      • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        This person doesn’t seem to know what they’re doing, given the question, so I went for two options. I haven’t been using Chrome. Good call and thanks for correcting me. Google just gets more evil by the day, doesn’t it? I’ll edit my comment. Thanks again.

        • buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.

            • buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
              7·
              1 year ago

              From the 1998 paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:

              Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

              • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Yeah, that’s why literacy is so important now. Not just literacy, but high levels of literacy, the kind that require a high level of research ability. Otherwise, we have the internet of today, and it will not stop until people start putting value on literacy and critical thinking skills. Today’s average user is just not competent enough to sift through all the trash and find the important stuff. That high school English class that forced you to write a research paper? Didn’t prepare you enough. That high school English class needed to do better. Turn you into a research machine.

            • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Don’t worry, that person also left out the part that Google pushed that particular chrome update out indefinitely.

        • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Remember back in the day when their in-house motto or whatever was literally “do no evil”?

    • TheHalc@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Edge also supports uBlock Origin, but because it’s Chromium-based it faces the same issues as Chrome regarding Manifest V3.

      • SBS1313@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        U can also set Edge to bing as a search engine. Idk if Bing will shut down ad blockers. For me it works fine.

    • rambos@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, your “edit” made me laugh hehe. Im using both, personal firefox and work chrome.