t-rextasaus wrote: ↑July 30th, 2023, 9:29 pmThe main motivation behind selecting PC Matic came a few years ago, as a suggestion from a friend (and the lifetime package appeared affordable for my needs
https://www.pcmatic.com/consumer/) also wanted something better than the slowness of the package I had before.
I never heard of ESET NOD32 / Kaspersky before until today. More Antivirus applications deserve more attention, I think.
Will spend time searching for another application, regardless. I plan to add it as an exception soon in the meantime.
Well, like I said,
VirusTotal's results tell you everything there is to know about those alerts (these screenshots are for just downloaded versions of both x86 and x64 NirCmd.exe, respectively, so they might not correspond to the version on your computer that you were alerted on; notice the absence of PC Matic from the security products from their database, and also note the identification given to the executables when detected, as well as which software detected them):
NirCmd.exe x86 (2023-07-31-01_08_33).jpg
NirCmd.exe x64 (2023-07-31-01_09_44).jpg
If you never heard of ESET or Kaspersky, then you're most likely quite new to the security field. Sure, nowadays the differences in this field are minor between serious providers in both detection and performance, with only the newcomers or the mediocre lagging behind, but there was one point when these two were the standard in detection (before others leveled the field, that is). Anyway, a decent site where such software are independently tested (or at least so they say) is
AV-Comparatives, where you can see specific reports on various things and products that were tested. Another one is
AV-Test, albeit its inclusion of PC Matic and others with a near perfect score, the lack of details on the testing procedures, and the big red heading with the pompous "best" right on their homepage doesn't inspire much credibility IMHO.
Bottom line, today there are providers that make decent security software, some of them even being free (at the cost of user data collecting and selling, obviously, like it's customary in this day and age for almost every software company). Normally, if you want to cover most angles in this case, you'd have an antivirus, a firewall, and a "no script" browser extension along with some common sense internet navigation habits and you should be fine, even if you're paranoid about it. You can get free offers of all these things, but of course, you'll have to select those that match your performance considerations as well, like you said. The time you'll spend on choosing the most efficient and fast product for you would be well spent, because this choice is not something you'll make every day - generally, you'll choose now and relax for a couple of years (set it and forget it) before things change significantly in this area.
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