Should I be worried?

Belly said:
PS: With Windows Defender does it put items in quarantine the same as other AV software?
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Microsoft Defender Antivirus (was Windows Defender) is Windows built-in AV and offers the similar basics, plus a bit of malware detection, as other off-the-shelf products.

Haze said:
are viruses even a thing any more?
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Yes, you've also now got malware and ransomware to deal with (on the majority of popular platforms).
 
There is really no point in paying for these things now. Many of them are walking a fine line of being adware themselves and are very bloated. Just Windows defender is better.

Malwarebytes was compromised and malicious code hidden in a few years back. Kaspersky is Russian so you can't trust that one but.
 
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Nasher said:
Malwarebytes was compromised and malicious code hidden in a few years back.
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Got a source for this? My Google-fu is failing me on finding anything to do with Malwarebytes having compromised source code/builds.

They did get tied up with 'Dark Halo' in 2021, the Solarwinds compromise, but it was limited to "a subset of" internal emails from what i remember - Malwarebytes had a blog posts on the incident but can't find it now.

Edit - For anyone remotely interested, blog post on Malwarebytes 'Dark Halo' incident - https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/n...n-state-actor-implicated-in-solarwinds-breach
 
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This is why I use 3 accounts. One for pure one time sign ups with no intention of using again (actually a few new one this yearthough). Second for sign ups for good and services and third being personal email address.

According to that link first one has been "pwned" 10+ times haha. 2nd one 3x and main one never.
 
Sadly it will have to be upgraded come next year because of the above unless you want to pay MS the £69 a year or whatever they are planning on charging!
 
mrk said:
Sadly it will have to be upgraded come next year because of the above unless you want to pay MS the £69 a year or whatever they are planning on charging!
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I may just bin it off. The entire PC would need to be ungraded. No way I'm spending 1000-2000 on something I use every now and again.

So wasteful with 1000s of pcs becoming unsupported.

69 a year is probably better than scrapping. Will have to weigh up the best solution.
 
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413x said:
I may just bin it off. The entire PC would need to be ungraded. No way I'm spending 1000-2000 on something I use every now and again.

So wasteful with 1000s of pcs becoming unsupported.

69 a year is probably better than scrapping. Will have to weigh up the best solution.
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Install Mint if it will do everything you need, that's probably what I'm going to do.
 
413x said:
Not sure. I play the odd game on its that's the problem. It's majorly annoying really.
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Almost everything will run under proton now when you install Steam. It's definitely an option - Steam Deck has really accelerated things in recent years. Just have to check the list: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/679B-EC53-5A6D-6D7D

It won't be suitable for everyone depending on what apps you're using.

My laptop runs Ubuntu and I play Steam games on it fine.
 
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