You can use kaspersky beta versions for free by downloading and installing it from their forum.
As a side note, after you install it you need to disable the debugging options once to get the optimal performance.
Kaspersky is a Russian company. No thank you.
I wouldn’t install it even if I would be paid.
“paid” schreibt man das.
anti virus is scam. Or malware themselves
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I downvoted because I think this is not true. Kaspersky holds a company in UK and their reputation is the best so far in terms of efficiency, service and respect to terms with costumers. And from my experience pirating software (including video games) it is better than Windows defender in that it has less to no false positives, and detects the actual malware. Hell it even saves the system after being infected, I am told this by 2 friends and my brother.
And it offers real time protection on the free tier so it beats Malwarebytes in this aspect.
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umm, shouldn’t you elaborate more? imo opinion using Kaspersky can save a lot of newbies getting into piracy, so what experience is making us hate on it on forums and discourage using it? I’d understand if you said you prefer Malwarebytes which is American based I think and the best competitor out there to Kaspersky. But saying that AVs are scams is simply not true by logic and by experience.
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No Russia in my house
You do realize where 99% of pirated anything comes from, right?
No China in my house
You do realize where 99% of stuff is manufactured, right? The device you are using right now has components made in China.
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Taiwan is a country
Correct, doesn’t change the fact a lot of stuff is still made in mainland China.
welp, can’t argue with beliefs
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is this an anime?
yes it is from Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song
anti-virus are a scam in general
Great… The anti-vaxxers figured out how to use Lemmy.
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Linux is not enough, that’s a dated mindset.
Most viruses these days are mobile in nature which gives you a 50% shot of which *nix you’re on. You’re either on a Unix like os based on MacOS or heavily modified Linux kernel.
You can uninstall an anti virus not not the covid vaccine.
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Hell it even saves the system after being infected, I am told this by 2 friends and my brother.
No. Once a System is infected you cant trust it anymore no matter what you do. There are many FUD (Fully Un Detected) viruses out there that cant 100% surely be found. You dont know if the found virus has infected the machine with some of these. Its a big red flag that this option is available in kaspersky. Save your data and set up a new system is the only correct, nearly 100% save option.
I mean that the three story tellers downloaded infected software that locked the system but downloading Kaspersky unlocked it. One was LaTeX packages the other little nightmares 2 the game and my brother downloaded a design software.
The LaTeX package made the system unusable and encrypted data, asking for money for decryption. (windows7)
The game also made the system unresponsive and started uploading data, additionally social media accounts pf the owner were hacked. (Windows 10)
In both scenarios the owner didn’t have Kaspersky and downloaded it only after infection, and it made the system function normally again. Although it didn’t decrypt the files in the first case.
In the case of my brother his social media accounts were hacked and system started dying but he just relaunched Kaspersky (he paused it cuz crack asked him to do so lol) and the system survived functioning as always (although he had to rescue his accounts manually).While it is debatable whether Kaspersky actually cleaned all the malware from the system, we can agree that the fact that system was rescued for the user to prepare for the re_installation is a good service.
Kaspersky has been shit for at least 15 years.
There was a huge fiasco with them in the early 2000’s.
Why would anyone use their garbage today?
kaspersky is a virus
Never pirate anything that runs with any privilege, that means antivirus, VPN etc.
Also, why use an av?
This is an offical beta version.
“Why use an av?”
Sadly, because JavaScript exists.
Oh oki.
About js. Why not just use something like ublock+ noscript + Firefox
Firefox on desktop is very bad in terms of performance.
Noscript, does not protect when you need javascript( this from a person who disable JavaScript in the browser settings)
ublock is not bullet proof and still has a lot of blind spots.
If you’re going to make your system worse, you should also combine with Norton anti virus too.
Either that, or just use the Microsoft one that is free
This is the piracy community so I’ll write it out:
If you are pirating software you probably need an antivirus and windows defender is easily bypassable.why the heck would I want this when clam exists?!
Immunet shutdown in jan, so no clam.
ClamAV is alive and well. Immunet != ClamAV even if that was the engine Immunet used.
? “latest version 1.3.1 / 17 April 2024”
you don’t have to run clam from the cloud
I believe you can’t run clamav as av on windows.
Last update 2021
But I think Kaspersky already offers real time protection on the free tierwhat are the additional features in this method ?
Only AVs worth your time are:
common sense
an open source ad and tracker blocker
MS Defender if on Windows
ClamAV (or nothing like most people) if on Linux
