Anti malware that can detect cracks and flag them as so, but can also distinguish from trojact and malware? Also, that can be configured to don't use too many resources when not required (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was thinking, mbam, have you got other suggestions for Windows 10? Also, is there a good setup for when I'm running games I bought, and I don't need active scanning of threats? (Especially for legit games that use resources intensively)

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[-] SpeedySparticus@feddit.dk 13 points 2 months ago

Most antivirus especially the free ones are not good and are kinda malware themselves. What you can do is to not download from very sketchy sites and maybe try uploading the binary to virustotal. Maybe also check if the binary is very obfuscated

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

cant stress this enough. read the tos on most antiviruses, they are free for a reason.

if you are on windows, use defender, its built in and enabled by default, so no need to worry.

use virustotal to scan files you download, and run it in a vm first if you still think it might be malicious.

[-] SpeedySparticus@feddit.dk 1 points 2 months ago

This. Better not install any antivirus (other than windows defender) but ANY malware just a bit more sophisticated than something from a scriptkiddie can EASILY bypass windows defender. So please just don’t download from sites where you can download free games as all of those sites I have seem have malware in all their games. And remember just because you don’t see that there is a virus in your computer most malware just hide and silently mine bitcoin or other crypto and steal your credentials to for example discord