You can use kaspersky beta versions for free by downloading and installing it from their forum.

As a side note, after you install it you need to disable the debugging options once to get the optimal performance.

  • theshatterstone54
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    7 months ago

    Only AVs worth your time are:

    common sense

    an open source ad and tracker blocker

    MS Defender if on Windows

    ClamAV (or nothing like most people) if on Linux

    • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Also, I wouldn’t trust Kaspersky with anything important personally. It’s from an older interview but…

      If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?

      Internet design–that’s enough.

      That’s it? What’s wrong with the design of the Internet?

      There’s anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.

      I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation–Internet passports, Internet police and international agreement–about following Internet standards. And if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.