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NoobletCheese:
im telling you, anti virus software is a scam to anyone who is computer savvy. its in the same league as VPNs, but at least VPNs dont slow down your whole PC unlike antivirus which embeds itself deep in the shag of the kernel and intensely scans every thing you do, and has mandatory auto-updates so the AV company can run whatever code they want on your machine until it inevitably breaks something and you have 6 minute boot up times -
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Psionic Roshambo:
Then again I am not clicking random links I use a hardened hosts file and a few tweaks here and there lol -
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NoobletCheese:
even windows 10's built in defender slows down file transfers massively due to its "real time scanning". it can be disabled through secpol.msc iirc and I got way faster speeds.
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KenniesNewName:
I'd like to think most people are pretty smart knowing what's fraudulent on a site but happens to the best of us -
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Dark_Phoras:
Besides, what these companies charge in the US is maybe a lot more than what they charge here -
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NoobletCheese:
the best attack i've had is ones spoofing my bank's email address and making it seem like a legit email asking me to logon and add a phone number to my account or something.
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Dark_Phoras:
I always ignore those things. If it's important, they'll send a letter or tell me in person
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NoobletCheese:
nearly got scammed from a game keys website, trying to pay with paypal and instead of sending you to legit paypal checkout they send you to their own identical looking version which scrapes your user and pass first
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Psionic Roshambo:
What happens with me when I get weird emails or texts I check directly not from the email or text
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Psionic Roshambo:
What happens with me when I get weird emails or texts I check directly not from the email or text