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demibaka ,

This is impossible, all antivirus will give false positive sometimes and they will be annoying since they need to be intrusive to “catch” some virus

rockhandle ,
@rockhandle@lemm.ee avatar

You’re not going to find an antivirus that isn’t intrusive because that is their entire duty. However, Kaspersky has a very high malware detection rate compared to other AV solutions

ssm , (edited )
@ssm@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Use the megathread, it has lists of trusted providers (goat symbol).

Of course, that’s not good enough, so my “antivirus” is to use an entirely separate device for gaming/piracy and a lower power device for production and work. If my gaming device gets compromised, the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)

OozingPositron ,
@OozingPositron@feddit.cl avatar

the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)

You could prevent this by telling us now.

Seabyte ,

I haven’t used an Antivirus in years… That’s one advantage of GNU OS’s. I run cracks inside sandboxes which then run Wine and DXVK for compatibility.

mr_right ,
@mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

i don’t think that’s possible mate for 2 reasons :

  • software companys pay antivirus software makers to flag and remove game cracks
  • cracks use obfuscation and workaround techniques that are similar to whats used in viruses so most flag them as mallisious
OfficerBribe ,

So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.

Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.

zaknenou ,
@zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or something

aldalire ,

ClamAV is an open source antivirus

github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav

Teknikal ,

I sometimes think about disabling defender I think theres a site that can do it. Downside is it’ll probably break windows but yeah it annoys me it’s always wasting my battery plus yeah it throws fits over things like cracks

Last time I was mad enough to think about this it wasn’t even a crack it was Autohotkey it didn’t like.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Think it’s also important that it’s not a resource hog. None are perfect but I recommend ESET.

charade_you_are ,

malwarebytes will flag cracks like all the others but when I used to clean computers for a living, it rarely gave a false positive and found the most bullshit on Windows pcs. This was a few years back so I don’t keep up with how it is these days.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

virustotal.com

Most antivirus software is more sketchy than random cracks.

BearOfaTime ,

You’re not going to find an AV that doesn’t flag modifications as virus/malware. That’s kind of the definition of malicious behaviour by a program.

Hell, Windows itself will overwrite changes you make to certain exscutables/dll’s, etc, with its own file protection system.

Test your cracks in a VM. Then use them as needed, or do the cracking in a VM.

LainTrain ,

Just don’t use one. Just don’t download anything dodgy and you’re golden.

OsaErisXero ,

They just said they were downloading arbitrary binaries to execute

LainTrain ,

Where?

OsaErisXero ,

He's downloading cracks or cracked executables

The cracking groups aren't exactly signing their work with a verifiable public key

LainTrain ,

Yeah but that should be okay as long as he’s getting it from legitimate places (rarbg, official fitgirl site, cs.rin.ru, rutracker etc).

I’ve not had an AV for like 10+ years, had defender disabled with GPO as soon as I installed W10 and had no issues.

The best AV is your brain. Obviously if you download GTA_6 _(Brazil)_by_xP3tYa1337x.pdf.html with an embedded .hta directly from an IP address in Kamchatka and you have IE installed then yeah maybe you need to give things a manual scan pass with defender or malwarebytes (or just toss it in a VM) once in a while but otherwise you’re golden.

Even most vulns today labeled 0day are either unexploitable or require the user to be a dumb motherfucker.

Trust me.

BlanK0 ,

If u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable

stuckgum ,

Obviously he is not on linux

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