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This is not a rare occurrence or one that is only a problem for enemies of a powerful government.

As a result, sophisticated attackers can often abuse antivirus programs to gain SYSTEM privileges. This is a recipe for privilege escalation exploits.

Using a tool like AutoRuns every week to check for suspicious start-up entries.Īntivirus is more dangerous in that it parses complex attacker-controlled data in a highly privileged context.

Monitoring the network traffic on your PC now and then to check for anything suspicious.

Using extensions like AdBlock and NoScript/ScriptSafe so malicious code can't secretly execute.

So I was wondering what would be some better ways I could keep my PC safe without relying on some heavy, automatic AV software? I can think of a few things so far (but would doing these things actually be safer than having an AV?): On top of that, you still have to put some trust in the AV which has kernel access to your PC and intercepts network traffic for you and possibly even gathers data about things you don't know. I have also read that when an AV automatically scans an executable file you just downloaded, the hacker could potentially abuse a vulnerability in the AV scan and get it to execute without you ever running it. I have read a lot of articles that talk about how using an AV is less safe than not having one for more intermediate PC users who are careful with what they click and download.įor example, here are a couple of articles: