>too poor to afford back-up storage or proper anti-virus
>using a vulnerable Microsoft developed OS
I-I'm scared /g/
INSTALL
GNU + Gentoo Linux
>>51701937
when i was on windows i'd install the nod32 trial and then pull valid licenses off websites that would usually last me for a long time. i think the latest edition of nod32 has effectively killed that though.
>>51701937
What kind of shady torrents do you download? Games? Anime? Give details about your stupidity first.
I simply use Avast with common sense.
>>51701937
Bitdefender full free 6 months
http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/adware-removal-tool/
Mega 50GB free online storage. there is no need to backup your faggy porn, just data that you created and cannot be replaced if lost.
https://mega.nz
Figure out how much backup storage you really need. For me, as long as my family pictures and documents are safe, I can deal with redownloading my chinese children's cartoons, so I don't really need more than 25 GB. Set up encrypted backups (take a look at Duplicati) to some free cloud services.
If you've got a friend who also needs backups, and you've both got free drive space, you could set up encrypted backups between your computers.
>>51701937
Bitdefender + common sense on my Desktop, I think my laptop just does regular built-in Windows Defender.
You do know Windows has had built-in virus protection since Windows 8, right?
Really, you gotta be pretty fuckin' stupid to get a virus nowadays. I haven't had a legit virus scare since the XP days. I say "legit" since you get false alarms for keygens and shit.
There's free proper anti-virus.
>>51702439
You don't mean malwarebytes? Because that fucker has no active shield. Only if/when you scan it detects shit, meanwhile infections can simply walk right in from the usb/internet and it won't even know it.
>>51702417
>Really, you gotta be pretty fuckin' stupid to get a virus nowadays.
it can happen silently anywhere through a number of vectors and you'd never have any idea. you are not above getting a virus/rootkit/worm no matter how much you think otherwise.
>>51701937
>or proper anti-virus
Windows Defender and/or MSE is good enough for someone intelligent enough to browse /g/.
When I am very suspicious of something I use an online file scanner here:
https://www.metascan-online.com/#!/scan-file
i use kali linux like a not jew
>>51702417
>false alarms from keygen
..
just letting you know, 90% keygens silently install backdoors. AV's dont detect them because most can easily bypass it. of course, you also probably run in admin mode, so youre basically giving the keygen full control.
i know, because after i used a keygen, i noticed i kept getting url shortner redirects in chrome. av didnt detect anything. ublock didnt work
>>51703526
you probably download from public trackers
>>51703575
it was a private tracker actually. i went back and read the comments, and it did indeed was a malware dropper.
never rely on cracks/keygens if you truly want to be safe
