Whats the best anti virus for gamers? And where can i get it from thanks

[Graham Scott Armstrong]

Whats the best anti virus for gamers?
And where can i get it from thanks

 

[Mason Henderson]

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[Louis Gordon]

The best anti virus is not being stupid and downloading from dodgy websites. You don't need one if you're careful.

 

[Boris Bareta]

bitdefender and adblock and you should be fine, ofcourse, when u go to pornhub and related sites,you have to disable adblock

 

[Wesley Teoh]

There's not really one for gamers. But reputable ones are bitdefender and Kaspersky

 

[Jonas Ziebold]

Avast

 

[Jonnathon Clayton]

windows defender is a full AV suite in windows 10, no need for anything else, I have never got an virus or malware using it, then again I dont visit dodgy sites either, I tend to keep to the better known parts of the innerwebbs

 

[Wesley Teoh]

Decide whatever antivirus you want, then can go to G2A and compare key prices

 

[Anthony Tolbert]

Windows defender and don't pirate games

 

[Mick Knight]

I never use an AV, its just common sense really if your gonna surf dodgy sites looking for porn, mods, pirated games etc then use one, Avast free is pretty good tho i recomend it to my friends family etc

 

[David Clifton]

Best anti virus is commonsense

 

[Emmanuel Lopingco]

Common sense is the best antivirus. Though if you want to risk going to dodgy sites and stuff, reddit is a reliable source for recommendations.

 

[Oliver Laasner]

An actual Nerd-brain.exe and I'm using Bitdefender too

 

[Levy Korody]

Gamers don't need antivirus

 

[Aaron Temple]

I use a combination of Windows Defender and ZoneAlarm

 

[Thomas Borisov]

stop pirating games and youll stop gettig viruses

 

[Cody Kroes]

Avast and kaskersky are just bloat ware in my opinion, windows defender is great, shouldn't need anything else

 

[Chris Corkill]

No anti-virus

 

[Joseph Casanova]

I work in cyber security for the military.

Windows defender does pretty good.
But keep this in mind: 99% of what antiviruses do is hash files and check if that hash matches known malicious hashes. If it does then it pops up hot and quarantines or deletes the file.

It doesn't take much to change the hash of a file. A single change to a single bit in the file will change the hash. So it's not hard for someone who wants to get into your system to avoid any antivirus you have installed. Bottom line: if they want in they are getting in.

That being said, if you avoid shady websites, don't browse porn or warez (illegal downloads) and you don't install shady software for stupid shit (RAM cleaner or something that automates returning pokes on Facebook) and only download and install software from the manufacturers website (only download and install steam from steampowered.com) you should be ok. That's what I do at home (I also run a pihole on my network which probably helps.)

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Also use 2 factor authentication on everything you can. A password alone is no longer secure.. some hashcat boxes can perform 3 billion password guesses per second against a captured password hash. Since you can pair hashcat boxes together the only limit to that number being multiplied is how much money the person or organization has to spend on hashcat boxes.

 

[Rebecca Hiebert]

I like Kaspersky.