Is MBAM better, or is microsoft defender enough if you download from trusted sources?

Do you consider Nyaa safe? (I’d like to get a visual novel or two that I haven’t purchased on steam yet)

Regarding other games, I always used pirate bay and I’ve been fine, 10 years ago though. Are the website listed in the wiki generally safe?

  • I Cast FistEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Considering the majority of malware we have to deal with nowadays, your best defenses are:

    • A firewall that blocks everything by default. I use SimpleFirewall and give trust on a per executable basis.
    • uBlockOrigin, because dear lord navigating some sites is almost impossible without blocking all that shit
    • Avoid anything that asks for admin access
    • Keep an eye on resource usage and be on the lookout for any weird looking processes.

    There was one time I downloaded a piece of shit that started to encrypt my drive. Since the CPU fan started spinning loud, I immediately checked task manager, figured what was going on and ended the malicious root process. Next, it was time to scour my folders, especially inside %appdata%, for any possible leftover executables. All clean, restart PC, everything was fine. I lost a couple of files, but nothing personal, just other downloads.