I have been computer free for probably 15ish years until I recently bought and set up a RPi4 with Linux. It’s been fun but I’m not really a super user so I’m looking to back to Windows as my main OS.

  1. is antivirus a necessity? I will be gaming and streaming on my new setup.

If yes then

  1. what are some ideal options? Paid or free.

Thanks for your responses in advance.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    do you need an immune-system?

    or is AIDS fine with you?

    the answer to that question is the answer to whether your computer needs an immune-system.

    get ESET.

    Unless things have changed significantly, VirusBulletin, iirc always had them catching more of the in-the-wild viruses than any of the other ones.

    Kaspersky is Russian, so you don’t want to be trusting it.

    There are more computer-pathogens now than there were a few years ago, not less.

    Pathogens multiply, just like humans do.

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