Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 8 months agoDo you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareDo you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this?Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoJust FYI, these days even a format can fail. Some things manage to get into your actual bios, or infect your drive firmware. Extremely rare, but still very much possible.
minus-squareFierySpectre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoPossible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC’s.
Just FYI, these days even a format can fail. Some things manage to get into your actual bios, or infect your drive firmware.
Extremely rare, but still very much possible.
Possible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC’s.