You can use kaspersky beta versions for free by downloading and installing it from their forum.

As a side note, after you install it you need to disable the debugging options once to get the optimal performance.

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      77 months ago

      I downvoted because I think this is not true. Kaspersky holds a company in UK and their reputation is the best so far in terms of efficiency, service and respect to terms with costumers. And from my experience pirating software (including video games) it is better than Windows defender in that it has less to no false positives, and detects the actual malware. Hell it even saves the system after being infected, I am told this by 2 friends and my brother.

      And it offers real time protection on the free tier so it beats Malwarebytes in this aspect.

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          47 months ago

          umm, shouldn’t you elaborate more? imo opinion using Kaspersky can save a lot of newbies getting into piracy, so what experience is making us hate on it on forums and discourage using it? I’d understand if you said you prefer Malwarebytes which is American based I think and the best competitor out there to Kaspersky. But saying that AVs are scams is simply not true by logic and by experience.

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          37 months ago

          anti-virus are a scam in general

          Great… The anti-vaxxers figured out how to use Lemmy.

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        Hell it even saves the system after being infected, I am told this by 2 friends and my brother.

        No. Once a System is infected you cant trust it anymore no matter what you do. There are many FUD (Fully Un Detected) viruses out there that cant 100% surely be found. You dont know if the found virus has infected the machine with some of these. Its a big red flag that this option is available in kaspersky. Save your data and set up a new system is the only correct, nearly 100% save option.

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          27 months ago

          I mean that the three story tellers downloaded infected software that locked the system but downloading Kaspersky unlocked it. One was LaTeX packages the other little nightmares 2 the game and my brother downloaded a design software.
          The LaTeX package made the system unusable and encrypted data, asking for money for decryption. (windows7)
          The game also made the system unresponsive and started uploading data, additionally social media accounts pf the owner were hacked. (Windows 10)
          In both scenarios the owner didn’t have Kaspersky and downloaded it only after infection, and it made the system function normally again. Although it didn’t decrypt the files in the first case.
          In the case of my brother his social media accounts were hacked and system started dying but he just relaunched Kaspersky (he paused it cuz crack asked him to do so lol) and the system survived functioning as always (although he had to rescue his accounts manually).

          While it is debatable whether Kaspersky actually cleaned all the malware from the system, we can agree that the fact that system was rescued for the user to prepare for the re_installation is a good service.

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        27 months ago

        Kaspersky has been shit for at least 15 years.

        There was a huge fiasco with them in the early 2000’s.

        Why would anyone use their garbage today?