It’s been a long while since i used a desktop and honestly can’t remember what antivirus software i used, and even then, probably the landscape has changed over the years.
Atm i’ve been winging it with just Windows Defender (no custom configuration) and scanning any thing that looks suspicious on VirusTotal, but probably that would be not enough.
I’m thinking on get a couple of pirated files, so i’d like to be as secure as possible.
Why would you pirate an antivirus of all things? Don’t they need kernel level privileges?
Well he is already pirating. Why pay for an antivirus if you can just pirate it?
Don’t trust hacked software to protect you from hacked software.
Nonsense. The first thing I used to install on a newly formatted machine with a cracked version of windows, before windows defender was a thing, was a cracked version of nod32. In fact, I’ve never paid for an antivirus.