Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year 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-square37fedilinkarrow-up1100file-text
arrow-up195message-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 · 1 year agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year 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-up4·1 year agoPossible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC’s.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year 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.