I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been curious about this, but I am unsure what to use in place of Defender.

    • IDew@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      In mind of the developer it’s about using your brain rather than relying on a anti-virus. Basically you don’t want to download shady stuff or cracks with no verification or testing, and never open a pdf that came in the mail. But yeah, just me on my own I guess.

      • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There was a time when I thought like you. I had no AV until Defender became a thing, and was fine. But these days I keep hearing about more and more exploits targeting your browser, or libraries in the OS that your image viewer might be using, etc etc.