Back in 2018 I thought a free antivirus was enough and it cost me $300

I was using a popular free program and clicked a fake invoice email that looked real, which let a keylogger slip through. It grabbed my PayPal login before I even realized what happened. What's a good second layer of defense you all use now, like a specific password manager or something?

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wesley_thompson3d ago

I mean, keyloggers are nasty but idk if a password manager is the magic fix. A free antivirus should have caught that, maybe yours was just out of date. I still use the free version of Malwarebytes for a second scan sometimes and it's fine. Maybe it's just me but I feel like not clicking sketchy emails is still the main thing.

paule533d ago

My buddy Mark had his bank account drained last year. He was running updated antivirus but still got hit by a keylogger from a fake invoice email. The password manager he switched to after that stopped the autofill on the fake sites, which was the real game changer for him.