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MWstudios

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Is antivirus a ransomware

It always to offer help to keep your files not deleted but ONLY IF YOU PAY!
At least they're not decrypted

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Gosha

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Re: Is antivirus a ransomware

If your antivirus doesn't allow you to keep files you want unless you pay - that's a **** antivirus

Tomahawk

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Re: Is antivirus a ransomware

The real scam is tricking the average consumer into believing their OS’s antivirus isn’t good enough.

Idk what Windows Defender pretends to do in the background all day, but let’s hope it can protect me from the evil shenanigans of EEForums and YouTube.

I think my Adblock does more tbh.

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capasha

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Joined: 2015-02-21

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Re: Is antivirus a ransomware

The real scam is tricking the average consumer into believing their OS’s antivirus isn’t good enough.

Idk what Windows Defender pretends to do in the background all day, but let’s hope it can protect me from the evil shenanigans of EEForums and YouTube.

I think my Adblock does more tbh.

The most exploits comes with PDF or using Flash enabled everywhere. You don't need to download anything through Flash you will get instantly infected.
The reason I use Anti-exploit kits on Windows. And also NoScript which block the most scripts and flash files. I also use U-matrix for link logging in CSS.

Windows Defender is just a joke. It doesn't protect at all.
Telling that people should use other Anti-Virus. Then they use it and a simple popup from the Anti-Virus makes them annoyed and not comfortable.
Which will end in removing the Anti-Virus. There is settings to disable the popup's. But I guess to hard to change that.