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Re: What kind of software should beginners know?
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PrivacyG
on 17/03/2022, 18:46:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by NeuroticFish (2)
One thing I did not think about when writing my last post.  The first and most important move may be learning about Linux.  This is the first thing you should do if you care about transparency, security and privacy.  Furthermore, you can install a clean Linux distro on an old computer of yours and use that ONLY for Bitcoin transactions.  No need to use anti virus when you do not even access anything besides your Bitcoin wallet on that computer.

They do scan files; some scan only known executable files, for some you can set only certain extensions, or set folders to not be scanned, some will scan all. And most will also sell all the data they can.
It's one of the reasons I use hardware wallet.
Oh God, you can only imagine how much data Microsoft collects and sells through their default anti virus that seems like impossible to disable or kill.  It is almost like it never truly stops scanning even when disabled, I wonder why Roll Eyes just eerie.

last time I've used it it also had TOR by default iirc.
Tails does have system wide TOR enabled by default.

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Regards,
PrivacyG