Free Anti Virus: your advice please
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Having an AV is best practice, you should have one and keep it up to date , just like your OS. Unless you trust 100% all your websites, all the other sources you use ( USB, other equipment on the same network ). And backup your sensitive stuff regularly.
I only hang out at safe porn sites, but I still wear some protection on my sensitive stuff.
On a serious note I got caught once in the last few years, couldn’t fix it it in 45min. Reload windows.
I think it was a movie from a YIFY knockoff site
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I only hang out at safe porn sites, but I still wear some protection on my sensitive stuff.
On a serious note I got caught once in the last few years, couldn’t fix it it in 45min. Reload windows.
I think it was a movie from a YIFY knockoff site
2 Trojans 1 Port?
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A layered security approach is the way to go these days. As others have said, AV alone tends to react to baddies once they get in, rather than stopping them in the first place. FWIW, my set-up is…
Emsisoft Antimalware (paid, although gets cheaper year-on-year, as a loyalty bonus) As well as dual-engine (Bitdefender and Emsisoft’s own) it packs surf protection and a fantastic behaviour blocker which is one of the best in the business, monitoring for suspicious file activity. Given all that, it runs really light on my lappy. It’s my only paid security app, but worth it for peace of mind. Freebies such as Avast, AVG et al, whilst reasonable options, nag too much to upgrade to pro, and have often questionable policies with regards to your personal info. They also have a nasty habit of installing stuff (toolbars etc) that, unless you are vigilant, you didn’t even realise you had agreed.
Malwarebytes Anti Exploit (free) - protects your browsers. I don’t even know it’s there.
Ublock Origin in Firefox - another essential freebie which blocks ads and flags suspicious sites.
Windows Firewall - now strong enough, IMO. I used to use Comodo, but it can be rather temperamental and takes a lot of tuning.
A couple of other free on-demand scanners - Malwarebytes Antimalware and Zemana Antimalware (very effective and fantastic for quick scans)
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Ublock origin FF extension is amazing.
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2 Trojans 1 Port?
Yes I think it was the 2004 movie “Troy” the one with Brad Pit, but I had a lot lot more then 1 Port, the bottle was almost empty.
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Yes I think it was the 2004 movie “Troy” the one with Brad Pit, but I had a lot lot more then 1 Port, the bottle was almost empty.
Next time use this
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NoScript Addon for FF and/or Chrome and uBlock Addon for the same. Together with brain.exe 1.01 - best virus protection.
Beside that I use Avast free for the case that brain.exe has any fatal errors^^
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Welcome, brother, get on the stick.
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NoScript Addon for FF and/or Chrome and uBlock Addon for the same. Together with brain.exe 1.01 - best virus protection.
Beside that I use Avast free for the case that brain.exe has any fatal errors^^
That’s what I tell everyone. If it looks weird don’t click it. If the email comes from your friend and you aren’t expecting it, don’t click it. Pick up the d**n phone and ask about it.
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Confused again…
A quotation from the site linked by Mordwand:
" Avoid peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs (i.e. Limewire, eMule, Kontiki, BitTorrent, BitComet, uTorrent, BitLord, BearShare). They too are a security risk which can make your computer susceptible to malware infections. File sharing networks are thoroughly infested with malware according to security firm Norman ASA and many of them are unsafe to visit or use. Malicious worms, backdoor Trojans, IRCBots, Botnets, and rootkits spread across P2P file sharing networks, gaming and underground sites. Users visiting such sites may encounter innocuous-looking banner ads containing code which can trigger pop-up ads and malicious Flash ads that install viruses, Trojans, and spyware. Ads are a target for hackers because they offer a stealthy way to distribute malware to a wide range of Internet users. The best way to reduce the risk of infection is to avoid these types of web sites and not use any P2P applications."
…and that’s exactly what I held as true and had observed for years. But it appears that BMS guys are strongly in favour of Torrent… :???:
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Again: its NOT using Bittorrent getting an infection. It’s the dubious websites where you download .torrents for downloading bootlegs. And with the cracks for pirated software etc. you get infections.
You get the .torrent for BMS from a trusted website (from here) and the download itself (BMS 4.33x) is also trustfully. Nothing wrong with spreading BMS via torrent. Way better than STEAM or other shit.
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Confused again…
A quotation from the site linked by Mordwand:
" Avoid peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs (i.e. Limewire, eMule, Kontiki, BitTorrent, BitComet, uTorrent, BitLord, BearShare). They too are a security risk which can make your computer susceptible to malware infections. File sharing networks are thoroughly infested with malware according to security firm Norman ASA and many of them are unsafe to visit or use. Malicious worms, backdoor Trojans, IRCBots, Botnets, and rootkits spread across P2P file sharing networks, gaming and underground sites. Users visiting such sites may encounter innocuous-looking banner ads containing code which can trigger pop-up ads and malicious Flash ads that install viruses, Trojans, and spyware. Ads are a target for hackers because they offer a stealthy way to distribute malware to a wide range of Internet users. The best way to reduce the risk of infection is to avoid these types of web sites and not use any P2P applications."
…and that’s exactly what I held as true and had observed for years. But it appears that BMS guys are strongly in favour of Torrent… :???:
that’s the key issue, and another is pirate software can (not will) contain malicious software (at times even by the original developers themselves)
the advice is certainly not wrong here, it’s a security blanket really. but as reaper said it’s not the p2p network (torrent in this case specificly) that is at fault but the software that you download with it.
limewire and emule… kazaa and all of those platforms are a beehive for virusses malware, ransomware, and basicly everything under the sun. i don’t trust those platforms because the source is unknown, unlike in torrent where the source is known.in the past they spread bms releases through HTTP as a direct download link as well. i’m assuming that’s going to happen again (torrent is just way faster for me) so you can still keep to that advice and not use torrent to download bms.
the reason bms is spread using torrent is to reduce bandwidth, if 100’s of people download a 1.5 gigabyte file you’re talking terabytes worth of data… and that bandwidth isnt free, torrent is an excellent way to make use of free bandwidth that is readily available and reduce server load and bandwidth costs -
Again I have a case now on Facebook where someones Account seemed to be hacked. The person does not surf on bad sites - but click on every shit that blinks. (obvisiously)
You can infect your computer even on “safe” sites. Because you never know who is behind that ad-server that shows advertisements. Even if its from Google Ad Service. Even big websites can be hacked and users can therefore infected. Or database is stolen.
This shit happens always…even to Ebay, Paypal and so on…Trust nobody and no website at all. (I mean nobody and no website…even this one!)
NoScript and uBlock should be standard in every browser - If I were a browser developer I would give a shit on lazy users that dont like to handle the exceptions in NoScript.
Edit: Sorry…lazy to serch a better Video in english language^^
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Been using Avira Free for ten years or so. Always went back to it when I wanted to try a different tool as it’s just too bloody efficient.
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I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium. Hardware firewall for incoming traffic and Windows firewall for outgoing traffic.
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Private usage Windows:
On win7 i was using Avast as my last AV. I was almost always switching between Avast or Avira (only at the beginning, 13 years ago, I was a panda user).Nowadays with Windows 10 it has I think it has automatically that MSSE on it I think (or Defender?). I didn’t install anything at all.
I only have Games (ArmA 3, GTA 5, Falcon BMS) installed (jeah and the tools you need to get those, like Steam, µTorrent, 7z, Notepad++, WDP etc.).My only Data valuable on this computer is the keyfile and the TM Scripts. If I work on them, I put them immediately on Dropbox/Gmail/ext.HD
If someone else would get them, I won’t care. But it would hurt extremely if my Hard Disk would stall, or some kind of ransomware would make it unavailable.No problem reinstalling Windows and few programs.
I think more important than an Antivirus is conscious knowledge about the source of the files you download.
Just because soft onic and other filehosters with modified installers get ranked up catching the first click, I won’t ever download anything from them.
Trying to get to the true source instead of the fastest click can save more time (and hair).
Additionally, buying or using free software keeps you away from untrusty portals, exe and dlls.In my private working usage I switch between different distros of linux.
I don’t know of any free “Always active AV” for linux.
Would I use it? Probably because I have much less experience with linux.
Atleast the footprint of malware etc. is smaller.
Even in linux I prefer Backups.Also because once the shit hit the fan, even if all avs on the world would tell you afterwards that your system has been cleaned, I would reinstall the system.