@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-square66fedilinkarrow-up1116file-text
arrow-up1116message-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-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish7•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-square@FierySpectre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoPossible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC’s.
minus-square@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 months agoYou’d be surprised, these have already been found in the wild. They aren’t 0-days or anything, so they aren’t exactly secret or worth much. No more than any other cluster of code anyway.
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.
You’d be surprised, these have already been found in the wild. They aren’t 0-days or anything, so they aren’t exactly secret or worth much. No more than any other cluster of code anyway.