On Sun, 10 May 2020 11:52:11 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On 5/10/2020 10:52 AM, Shadow wrote:

FWIW, I haven't used a resident AV for ages.... and I'm on XP.
Safe hex is the way to go with any OS.



As far as I'm concerned, there are *four* ways to go, and none of them
should be omitted:

Safe Hex
Antivirus program
Antispyware program
Firewall

What you do is of course up to you, not me, but as far as I'm concerned,
relying just on safe hex is foolhardy. There's always a chance that you
will make a mistake some day when you're very tired, have had too much
to drink, having just had a fight with your spouse, etc.

A firewall is part of safe Hex(two here, one in the router).
And I scan with USB-booted AVs quite frequently. I said I don't use a
resident AV.
You forgot backups. I do daily incremental and less often full
backups. Hardware can crash. No AV will protect you from that.
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