 So this video is hopefully gonna be quick and I'm not gonna go too much off on a rant But it's in a reply. I've been meaning to do this for a while now I did a video not too long ago called why antivirus sucks and surprisingly a lot of people agree with me But there are still some people who just don't get it So I want to address some of the questions and some of them were good questions. Some of them were just ridiculous One of the good questions is people ask what what if I have kids and my kids use my computer? Well, I you know, I have two kids a three-year-old and a one-year-old one-year-old Obviously isn't using the computer yet But in reply to that I'll say one my kids don't use my computer. They have their own which some people seem surprised by But it's so easy. I it's not like I bought her a computer People get rid of old computers all time that are still great and hers isn't even that old or you know You just upgrade and you have your old computer. So that that's a simple solution It's just give the kids their own computer, but even beyond that If my kid used my computer, they wouldn't be a root user They wouldn't be able to install soft where they'd only be able to run it in which case on elixic system They'd have to download it change the permissions on this on the file to make it executable And even if they did do that my personal files would still be protected and so basically what I'm saying by that is One if your kid knows enough how to download and change permissions on a file They should be wise enough to know not to download programs and do that And even if they did they're not administrators So they shouldn't have access to other people's files now again If you install if your system is not secure if you download a file that roots your system And game gets root access That that's not malicious software problem. That's a flaw in your system and that needs to be upgraded and Again, this isn't really supposed to be a Linux versus Windows setup But if a security flaw in your system like that is found and antivirus can't do anything It's called a zero-day attack and that's why it's called a zero-day attack because there's no defense against it Because it was just discovered once it's discovered and this is going to be kind of the ongoing thing with pretty much all the arguments is if there's a security flaw in your system and That system is not or that that security flaw is not known publicly yet Then antivirus isn't going to stop it. And if it is known publicly upgrading your software should patch that that hole So that's not an issue Now Let's say that is an issue I'm also not concerned about a system getting in there and deleting files Because there should be nothing on my system. That's of importance that isn't backed up somewhere immediately So my more more of my concern is it getting in and and stealing files And the simple solution that is just encrypt your home directory Encrypt your whole computer, but especially your home directory different than other people So let's say you had another user on there and they did get infected and they did have a zero-day attack They got root access now they can access your files Well, they can't if you encrypt it and you made sure you locked your files before you left So that's a simple solution that and if it gets root. Yeah, it could always wipe out your hard drive But again, you shouldn't have anything backed up you have anything on your system that isn't backed up somewhere else that is of importance and again Your kids shouldn't have the permissions to be able to do that sort of stuff and My kids my daughter we monitor what she does if your kids so young They don't know how to handle a system like that. They need to be monitored my opinion You may disagree and if they're older, they should be smart enough to know not to download stuff like that Okay, moving on someone goes Yeah, what about if you're you're pirating stuff? Okay, don't pirate software They said what about PDFs Excel files? mp3's well, those aren't executable stuff Any of those things there have been some security holes, but they aren't in those files directly They're in the programs you use so Adobe might have a flaw in their system or Microsoft Office might have a flaw in their system That flaw should be patched again If that flaw is known it should be patched and if it isn't known antivirus isn't gonna know about and be able to stop it It's the same thing over and over again Antivirus can't defend your system unless it knows who it's defending against and if it's defending against something That's a flaw in your system. The system should be patched. So again, that's that's the the ongoing thing malicious software again If you download something and you have permission to do something and you give that program permission to run Then yeah, but that's your choice again If it's not executable if it's like a PDF or a Word document or Excel document with a macro in it And your office software has a flaw that allows those macros to run make changes to your system You need to either upgrade that software or change your office software Now I was also going to ask people because a lot of people go. Oh, what about if you're online? You're vulnerable which is kind of true. Hold on one second here Declining call. Sorry about that um Yeah, that's the odds of you getting malicious software from a just a regular website It my phone is probably gonna ring here in a second Is is highly unlikely if you're not using external plugins like flash or Java If you're just going to a system that has scripts. You can obviously use script blockers. That's a different thing but again for Even with flash which has lots of flaws in it, which is why I block it on my system But if it comes to like JavaScript Your browser decodes that if your browser has some sort of flaw that allows JavaScript to change files on your actual system That's a flaw on your browser once it's known It should be patched and you should be able to upgrade if it's not known The antivirus again isn't going to help you because they are unaware of it. It's the same thing over and over again and I'll just ask you so so as an example I'm gonna ask if any of you know of a malicious website that will supposedly infect my system just by going to it put a link in the comments and I will go and check out that site and And prove to you that you know, I'm not concerned whatsoever. I did have someone Comment and say oh, but you go to websites, you know pop-up. He's talking about pop-ups I'm like, well, that's a pop-up not malicious software I mean, I guess you can serve pop-ups malicious software, but most browsers nowadays block pop-ups Automatically and they're not going to affect your system then he replied. Oh well You get ones that pop up and say oh your system is infected You know, you have to download antivirus software to get rid of it. That's not real That's trying to trick you into installing malicious software Which is my whole point that you don't install stuff like that again if you're on Linux use a Distro you trust and use their repositories and try not to go outside of that Occasionally you might have to but very very rarely if you have a good distribution But the pop-up itself is not malicious software now Someone did put a link inside the comments To the original video and I clicked on it no problem, right? So I click on it and Firefox where am I going right here? Let me turn the camera around. Okay Firefox brought this message obviously I even clicked, you know ignore this warning and it Still blocked it. So even to get to that site and again, I'm not concerned But I to get that site I decide I'll have to install another browser that may not have as much protection So again, my browser is protecting me here, right? I Installed a dill dill. Oh, I think it's how you say it. So finally I got to the website Which has this little image here? And I'm not at all concerned that this this has gotten to my system at all If I click on that then it wants me to download a raw file, which is like a zip file Now maybe there's malicious software in there, but this website doesn't do anything to my computer I can almost guarantee. Oh, no, I can guarantee you that I'll look through the code on the site But I I can tell you right now. It's not affecting my system in the least. I'm not concerned so go ahead and focus here If you think you have a website that's going to infect my system put a link in the description and I will check it out anyway, thanks for watching and So yeah, that's the challenge. Give me a link. Give me a link that will just infect my system by going to a website I don't have flash or Java running in my browser So you'd have to give me something that will infect me using JavaScript, which I am not concerned with I'm not saying it can't happen But I'm saying that if it was to happen antivirus wouldn't help and if that's the case Then I shouldn't be surfing the web at all So it would have to be a a glitch in my browser a bug in my browser That once known hopefully would be patched and soon as I do an update and again If we don't know about it. It's a zero-day attack. There is no defense against it. And that's kind of my point If you're really paranoid you can use script blockers, but again, that's the challenge Comment below if you think that you can just infect my computer with a website Go ahead and put a link below and I'll check out the link And as always please visit films by Chris comm that's Chris of the K. Have a great day