You're not going to find an antivirus that isn't intrusive because that is their entire duty. However, Kaspersky has a very high malware detection rate compared to other AV solutions
So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.
Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.
Use the megathread, it has lists of trusted providers (goat symbol).
Of course, that's not good enough, so my "antivirus" is to use an entirely separate device for gaming/piracy and a lower power device for production and work. If my gaming device gets compromised, the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)
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I haven't used an Antivirus in years... That's one advantage of GNU OS's. I run cracks inside sandboxes which then run Wine and DXVK for compatibility.
Windows defender claimed they're bad because they are cracks, and doesn't mention any reason it thinks that would be a virus/trojan or something I dont want
"HackTool:Win32/crack" from games downloaded on fitgirl repacks site (the correct one)
Isn't that a matter of behavior? The crack is doing something expected from a crack and the system warns you because most wouldn't use it without being aware. If you really trust the file, add it as an exception.
Or do you want a software that can vet good cracks from bad cracks?
Windows defender only lets you whitelist by file, folder, or process. You could whitelist a specific folder, but if you want to whitelist by category you'll have to use a different antivirus product.
malwarebytes will flag cracks like all the others but when I used to clean computers for a living, it rarely gave a false positive and found the most bullshit on Windows pcs. This was a few years back so I don't keep up with how it is these days.
been online for 30 years and have never once got a virus or trojan or anything and I pirate A LOT. My point being you're not going to find a super duper great anti-virus program and they're all gonna be annoying and provide false positives etc. Windows defender is going to ping you a lot cause you're using cracks to alter admin settings to get your pirated shit to work, that's the point.
Download from trusted sources and uploaders, do your research. if it feels off or looks iffy then bounce out. People who get virus' and trogans and shit honstly don't know what they're doing and in many cases it's all hogwash anyways to sell you anti-virus programs.
Like really, truly, think about it for a moment who in your entire life has recently gotten a computer virus? out of all the people I know in my life I can't even think of a single person that has.
Where did I say I had no means to check it? because I'm not paying for and installing extra bullshit? come on. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell when your system is infected. OP asked for best antivirus, I said trust your gut and use your brain, you're aware you can scan your system without paying right? I would hope so.
and even with routine scans I've never had malware because I'm not an idiot when it comes to that stuff.
I sometimes think about disabling defender I think theres a site that can do it. Downside is it'll probably break windows but yeah it annoys me it's always wasting my battery plus yeah it throws fits over things like cracks
Last time I was mad enough to think about this it wasn't even a crack it was Autohotkey it didn't like.
probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or something