Re: An accessable anti-virus software
I hate it when people say that common sense is the answer to not getting infected. That just does not work. "Stay away from shady sites"? That only works 10-15 percent of the time. Did you know that CCleaner was infected back in 2017 by a few hackers after AVAST purchased it? It infected hundreds of thousands of computers, and no one who claimed "common sense is the answer" even knew it was there. It looked harmless too: you'd open the properties and everything looked legit. You'd open the application and it all looked legit. The app even functioned normally. Except... it didn't. The app would do everything it normally did... but then, after 10 minutes (600 seconds) the apps virus component would activate. It would launch secretly in the background and contact a CaC server and do whatever the server required of it. And you'd have [absolutely] no idea!
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone in this post, but am just pointing out that common sense and backups aren't always the right solution. If your infected, its trivial for a virus to wait quietly until a backup starts and back itself up to your backups so that you can't recover them. Its evne easier for it to upload itself to your backup disks where you store it and infect *all* your backups, making recovery impossible.
But, back on track: an accessible AV program I'd go for would be malwarebytes. Ifanyone tells you that its only for malwar, it does catch malware, but it also catches viruses too. (Hint hint: never run two -- or more -- AVs simultaneously. Bad things will happen.)
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