Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents reasons for not using 3rd party AV software SSL stripping proxies Articles Best practices Help! My AV found malicious software! it has "Generic" in its name Antivirus (AV) Most of the time you do not need a third-party antivirus! Most people using Windows will be fine using Windows Defender in addition to blocking advertisements in their browsers. GNU/Linux users do not need an antivirus software at all most of the time. reasons for not using 3rd party AV software SSL stripping proxies Some antivirus software installs a web proxy on your system which intercepts every download. While this is effective against malicious software, it can also be exploited when there is a bug in the proxy which enables drive-by downloads. Articles Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk (by injecting JavaScript into every page) Best practices Install an adblocker in your browser (e.g. uBlock Origin) Advanced: block malicious ads and software with a Pi-Hole blocklist Advanced: Use a package manager like chocolatey on Windows Linux: Only install software available in your distribution's package manager Help! My AV found malicious software! You can upload suspicious files to virustotal.com to see the results from other virus scanning engines. it has "Generic" in its name The fact that the name contains "Generic" means the AV didn't detect anything, it just means it found some programming patterns in there that it also found in viruses. Last modified: 2020-04-18 11:21