McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Imagine needing an antivirus
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Even Windows doesn't really even need a 3rd party anti-virus anymore. The built in windows defender has gotten so good as to really be all you need for active protection unless you're insanely stupid and keep bypassing it. Use Malwarebytes for deep file scans once in a blue moon, and you're golden.
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Hasn’t a bunch of malware spyware and other malicious shit been found all over decades old Linux stuff the last couple months?
IIRC, that was more about auditing the "supply chain" of apps and Linux. Some college kids were purposefully trying to get malware on the mainline Linux repo and obviously got themselves banned from touching Linux.
Otherwise it's just been normal security vulnerability type stuff? There was also a long-existing bug found in a very common library recently, but that's very solidly in the normal flow of security research, the bug just happened to be sitting there a while.
Linux of course is a target and has malware. It'd be completely stupid of attackers to ignore Linux because the vast majority of servers run it. It's a readily available target with lots of goodies on those servers.
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CCleaner is too nowadays. How far it it has fallen...
CCleaner also hasn’t been necessary since at least Windows 7. I remember working in a PC repair shop when people would just arbitrarily run CCleaner on its most aggressive settings whether it was needed or not and it would always break more things than it fixed.
And even if it was, why tf have it open on startup? It should be run like, manually once a month at most.
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CCleaner? Adobe? Origin? McAfee? What is this, some kind of child's computer?
Someone who doesn't understand you can disable all those from starting with your pc
Someone who doesn't understand that pirating EA products is always morally correct
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I think you missed the reference. They weren't referring to children as a lack of familiarity with OS functions, they were referring to children as an ignorance of programs you should ever or never install. If you have mcfee on your computer, TODAY, you should just set your computer out on the curb and never touch an electronic device again.
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For those that don't know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let's you modify what apps get started when you log in.
You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager "start up" super charged.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Disclainer, misuse can seriously fuck windows. Use with caution. Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting, or anything you're unsure about.
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People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?
Epic is nice for free shit and drm free games.
Until the launcher wanted to add kernel level "anti cheat". Then Lemmy told me about Heroic... :-D
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is this a windows thing that im too linux to understand
When your Linux machine is so efficient on resources that it doesn't even try to run your video card or wifi dongle...
My linux desktop: "Nvidia? Hmm. Yuck, no thank you."
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Each one bringing it's own little version of Chrome along for the ride.
Unironically you're missing the point. The point being, it's not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it's wasteful to have them opened all the time.
Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).
And main reasons for that are:
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Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.
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Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.
I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.
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Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.
Wow... It's such an awesome feeling that I can't relate to this meme 🥰
Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant's properiarty Vangaurd rootkit
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But... but... then how will they collect telemetry for targeted advertising?
For those that have this issue,
Disclaimer:
misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.
If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager "start up" section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
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The joy of Windows.
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