What is your advice to family and friends when they ask you if they need an AV?
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Replying to @lorenzofb @ryanaraine and
Who asks that? They already have AV, so is the real question "should I disable mpsvc?" or "should I pay/have newtab page hijacked instead?". The answer to first is "complicated, but doesn't matter too much, ms actually know what they're doing", answer to latter is "lol no".
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Replying to @taviso @ryanaraine and
"They already have AV." What if they have a Mac? What if they run an older version of Windows? What about mobile? Respectfully, assuming everyone has a Win 10 box (if that's what you're suggesting) is just wrong.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @taviso and
If they have a Mac... they really shouldn’t install most “AV” products out there... basic education on Mac and Gatekeeper and default system policies should be good enough.
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Replying to @aionescu @lorenzofb and
Not a Mac expert, but people manage to install malware on their Macs all the time. That's what matters: a) is it relatively easy to install malware and b) are you someone who can't really make a distinction between malware and goodware. If 'yes' to both, you're better off with AV
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Replying to @martijn_grooten @aionescu and
Get a Mac to avoid malware is bad advice.
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Replying to @ryanaraine @martijn_grooten and
Yes, and so is "install antivirus". However, "Get a ChromeOS/Win 10 S/iOS device" is very good advice.
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Replying to @taviso @martijn_grooten and
IMO, the average Mac user (college student, mom/pop, etc) needs malware protection on MacOS
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Replying to @ryanaraine @martijn_grooten and
No, antivirus doesn't work and telling people it does is misleading. If I told you I had a vaccine for salmonella so you don't have to worry if your food is cooked properly anymore, you would be pretty angry when you got hospitalized when you stopped checking.
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Replying to @taviso @martijn_grooten and
I'll patch you into the next call I get to help clean a MacOS malware infestation.
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I think you must have misread what I said, how would that disprove what I just said?
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