I have default windows defender, but didnt even know its antivirus lol. Is there any antivirus installed by default on any popular linux distro? What do you use?

I feel like antivirus can just annoy me when trying to crack something, but maybe defender protects me and im not aware.

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    Windows Defender is enough. On your web browser you need uBlock origin. This means you need to use Chrome or Firefox as your web browser. *edit: Don’t bother with Chrome. Use Firefox. Someone replied to me with convincing reasons to just skip Chrome altogether.

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      Edge also supports uBlock Origin, but because it’s Chromium-based it faces the same issues as Chrome regarding Manifest V3.

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        U can also set Edge to bing as a search engine. Idk if Bing will shut down ad blockers. For me it works fine.

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        This person doesn’t seem to know what they’re doing, given the question, so I went for two options. I haven’t been using Chrome. Good call and thanks for correcting me. Google just gets more evil by the day, doesn’t it? I’ll edit my comment. Thanks again.

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          Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.

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              Don’t worry, that person also left out the part that Google pushed that particular chrome update out indefinitely.