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A reminder to manage your startup apps (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 285 points 4 months ago

McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 85 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Imagine needing an antivirus

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 159 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Even Windows doesn't really even need a 3rd party anti-virus anymore. The built in windows defender has gotten so good as to really be all you need for active protection unless you're insanely stupid and keep bypassing it. Use Malwarebytes for deep file scans once in a blue moon, and you're golden.

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[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

Imagine thinking you’re immune to malware

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[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Hasn’t a bunch of malware spyware and other malicious shit been found all over decades old Linux stuff the last couple months?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

IIRC, that was more about auditing the "supply chain" of apps and Linux. Some college kids were purposefully trying to get malware on the mainline Linux repo and obviously got themselves banned from touching Linux.

Otherwise it's just been normal security vulnerability type stuff? There was also a long-existing bug found in a very common library recently, but that's very solidly in the normal flow of security research, the bug just happened to be sitting there a while.

Linux of course is a target and has malware. It'd be completely stupid of attackers to ignore Linux because the vast majority of servers run it. It's a readily available target with lots of goodies on those servers.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 47 points 4 months ago

CCleaner is too nowadays. How far it it has fallen...

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 36 points 4 months ago

CCleaner also hasn’t been necessary since at least Windows 7. I remember working in a PC repair shop when people would just arbitrarily run CCleaner on its most aggressive settings whether it was needed or not and it would always break more things than it fixed.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 171 points 4 months ago

CCleaner? Adobe? Origin? McAfee? What is this, some kind of child's computer?

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

Someone who doesn't understand you can disable all those from starting with your pc

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 35 points 4 months ago

Someone who doesn't understand that pirating EA products is always morally correct

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[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I think you missed the reference. They weren't referring to children as a lack of familiarity with OS functions, they were referring to children as an ignorance of programs you should ever or never install. If you have mcfee on your computer, TODAY, you should just set your computer out on the curb and never touch an electronic device again.

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[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

what child could afford an adobe subscription?

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 159 points 4 months ago

[-] Darken@reddthat.com 108 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Delete mcafee and ccleaner pls

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[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 78 points 4 months ago

For those that don't know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let's you modify what apps get started when you log in.

You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager "start up" super charged.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

Disclainer, misuse can seriously fuck windows. Use with caution. Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting, or anything you're unsure about.

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[-] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago

People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

Epic is nice for free shit and drm free games.

[-] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Still not an enough reason to install that Tencent spyware imo.

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[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

Until the launcher wanted to add kernel level "anti cheat". Then Lemmy told me about Heroic... :-D

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[-] ambrosiaforest@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

is this a windows thing that im too linux to understand

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When your Linux machine is so efficient on resources that it doesn't even try to run your video card or wifi dongle...

My linux desktop: "Nvidia? Hmm. Yuck, no thank you."

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 4 months ago

Each one bringing it's own little version of Chrome along for the ride.

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 months ago

Laughs in KDE

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[-] rdri@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

Unironically you're missing the point. The point being, it's not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it's wasteful to have them opened all the time.

Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).

And main reasons for that are:

Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.
Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.

I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 months ago

Ew, uninstall most of that

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 months ago

[-] matmarspace@programming.dev 29 points 4 months ago

Wow... It's such an awesome feeling that I can't relate to this meme 🥰

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

USE LINUX

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

Jesus fuck...

[-] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

Lol it's everywhere here

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[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 26 points 4 months ago

But... but... then how will they collect telemetry for targeted advertising?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant's properiarty Vangaurd rootkit

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[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For those that have this issue,

Disclaimer:

misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.