Still need anti-virus software?
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[Article says no. (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3434097/why-you-can-stop-paying-for-antivirus-software.html) - at least for Windows 10 machines. Is Malwarebytes and Windows Defender sufficient? I've been using Norton and Malwarebytes - but thinking of dropping Norton.
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I used the free Windows Defender for a long time.
I bought Norton in May of 2014 because Windows Defender did not find a virus that Norton did find. The virus kept trying to connect to some Russian web site.
I have subscribed to Norton since then, I'm not sure if it is still worth it.
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I only use windows defender. Very, very occasionally I scan with Malwarebytes, but as it's never found anything since Win 10 was brought in there's probably no need for that, either.
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I'm actually still proud of one design feature of my virus. A virus at that time (MS DOS) was usually detectable by observing that it allocates memory. I had found a block of 512 bytes of memory occupied by the operating system that were usually unused (a part of the "interrupt vector table") where I could put my virus without any memory influence - the first "stealth virus" I knew of. The main challenge was to squeeze the code into 512 bytes, which necessitated hardcore assembly programming. Unfortunately, I didn't have any space left to program any harmful behavior - all the virus did was to replicate.
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I'm actually still proud of one design feature of my virus. A virus at that time (MS DOS) was usually detectable by observing that it allocates memory. I had found a block of 512 bytes of memory occupied by the operating system that were usually unused (a part of the "interrupt vector table") where I could put my virus without any memory influence - the first "stealth virus" I knew of. The main challenge was to squeeze the code into 512 bytes, which necessitated hardcore assembly programming. Unfortunately, I didn't have any space left to program any harmful behavior - all the virus did was to replicate.
