• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    Antivirus doubly doesn’t make much sense on handheld. Today’s malware is more stealthy and focused on stealing your data, but what sensitive data are you storing on a gaming-specific handheld?

    I guess there’s your Steam account, but the risk profile just isn’t the same, and it comes at the cost of performance which is already much more limited in this form factor.

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      4 months ago

      I’d argue that power is more the issue. All that processor time the antivirus spends scanning and rescanning is a chunk of battery gone.