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Ask HN: Is there any purpose to anti-virus?
1 point by de_keyboard on Nov 14, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Do you run anti-virus on workstations or servers? Is it worth the hassle?



Nope, just scareware. Use NoScript in browser, enable a firewall (eg. firewalld) and don't preview attachments in e-mails from unknown senders (unless your mail-provider provides proxy previews the attachments). Oh, and no reusing passwords.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/3299041?hl=en


Depends on your risk tolerance. Some entities can survive a single breached node, and some cannot. Those that have been breached, tend to be less tolerable (recency bias).




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