I’ve recently downloaded mullvad. I heard it’s popular in the piracy community. 5 dollars a month is not bad. Currently saving for a good antivirus. What are your favorites?
I’ve recently downloaded mullvad. I heard it’s popular in the piracy community. 5 dollars a month is not bad. Currently saving for a good antivirus. What are your favorites?
If you’re pirating software and don’t know how to run a VM or don’t have a separate machine to run it on (in case it contains a VM-busting exploit), then yes, it can be useful. However, I would personally prefer to buy a separate machine and run a VM on it than pay for a subscription service.
In this case, I’d say you should probably be running a Linux distro specifically designed for this purpose. Something like Qubes OS would work well.
Agreed. But ideals are ideals. Part of good security education is realizing whether you like it or not the limitations of your average user and configuring to the reality rather than the optimum.
Qubes is good but it’s not something I’d call beginner friendly. It is an operating system for advanced users. I’d say if you’re going to go the non-traditional OS route, at that point just boot to Tails selectively.
Honestly a lot of advice to be given here is non-specific because we don’t know OP’s situation, their threat model, how educated in computer literacy they are, etc.
But an adblocker with up to date software, security patches applied, basic user education and care leaves most people quite safe.