I am under the impression that the best antivirus programs that work without account is Eset and Kaspersky.

Is there is a better solutions?

  • manualoverride@lemmy.worldEnglish
    602·
    2 months ago

    Windows defender?

    Seriously you don’t need anything else, it’s really lightweight and Microsoft uses it to enhance their paid for corporate offerings. Anything more is just expensive bloatware for 99.9% of users.

    Edit: Kaspersky has been banned in several countries because it may be a Russian Trojan program.

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Windows Defender, AV’s pretty much need to hook into the kernel to do the job. This can be problematic with third party ones as they’re just not as tightly integrated with and developed alongside Windows itself…as we’ve seen with the crowdstrike 2K24 incident lol

    And Windows Defender is actually pretty good, MS has put good effort and investment into it.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    206·
    2 months ago

    Oh yeah, giving a Russian software system wide permissions is definitely a good idea. Edit: Poor angry Tankies.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Native defender is good enough. Alternatives exist but aren’t worth it until your business meds require it.

    Your money would be better spent on a good backup solution.

  • MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.oneEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    I run Windows Defender + Malwarebytes. 2 different ways of detecting malware and work well with each other.

  • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    When I was cleaning systems constantly back in the day, malwarbytes consistently found the most bullshit. I’m assuming it’s still good and lightweight. I guarantee if protects better than Windows Defender or fucking clamav if things haven’t changed too much.

      • Dufurson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        36·
        2 months ago

        seriously speaking, Arch is kinda DIY distro, if you’re noob in using linux, better use another distro

          • madsen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            Optimus as in Nvidia Optimus? I remember struggling with that under Linux in 2013. I would have thought it was supported by now. (Unless of course it’s another “Optimus”, in which case just ignore me.)

            • ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              Yes exactly, also my Laptop has a bug where booting any mainline Linux kernel would make the PC Linux error logger(I believe it’s called logd) to use 80% of the CPU without stopping( I have to boot the kernel with this parameter “PCI=nomsi”, for reason or another that is not the case on Libre Linux, also the PC overheat due to the GPU being turned on forever, I actually was keeping up with using Linux on this device till systemd boot loader broke( I was using Clear Linux) and I did not have a lot of time to fix it.

              Overall trying Linux on this laptop had made me understand that there is no way to use my PC on Linux currently.

              • madsen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                Damn. I would probably try a more mainstream distro for Optimus support, like Pop_OS! or Debian/Ubuntu with non-free repos enabled.
                I remember Bumblebee was a thing back in 2013, but it seems that it hasn’t been updated since then: https://www.bumblebee-project.org/

                • ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  12·
                  2 months ago

                  Syestemd boot loader breaking made me really hate using Linux, I may try again in 2-3 years to see if it works in a “plug and play” manner, hopefully at that time Wayland would be the default and maybe chimera or serpent os could have released their beta iso.