Ask HN: Do you use anti-virus software?

if so, which one(s) and on which OS platform(s)?

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Windows Defender.

If I download a sketchy binary, I'll run it through VirusTotal, but there's no reason to have any of that junk running on my PC all the time.

Windows Defender, that's all you need.

Yes, can’t have some zero days on my computers. I use anti-virus, virustotal and yara on top (see my tutorial https://youtu.be/Le6sZRV6Rwc)

KomoD 1y ago ↗

Whenever I'm on windows I "use" defender (on by default).

Otherwise I just run stuff through Virustotal.