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FronzelNeekburm posted:Aw, cheeseballs. I just re-upped. Yeah. My license ends in September so I don't feel like I'm missing out on too much by dumping it. Was at Wal-Mart today and found Kaspersky Pure 1 year/3 PC (AV, firewall, backup, container encryption, password locker, remote admin) for $5 less than directly from Kaspersky. Normally I prefer to cobble together free/cheap components, but my fiance is the type who "just doesn't get computers," and she trusts the name "Kaspersky," so maybe this will help her be a little more engaged/proactive with security (and maybe I'll never see Win 7 Security 2011 ever again). Hopefully this will help me stay sane when I become the family IT guy. Also, WM has NOD32 1 year/3 PC for $45, if anyone's shoppin'. Going back to grad school is bringing out my inner tightwad. PopeOnARope posted:What the gently caress? You pay for their Antivirus and they try to shoehorn malware onto your computer anyway? How much money is Uniblue offering these people? 45%
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I saw somebody awhile back claiming that Ad-Aware is now one of the best antivirus/antimalware suites. 
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Pope Guilty posted:I saw somebody awhile back claiming that Ad-Aware is now one of the best antivirus/antimalware suites. My friend's girlfriend's Hotmail was sending out bogus https://www.live.com phishing emails and I warned her about it via Facebook. When she asked what to do I recommended a virus scan plus changing her password, and suggested MSE, but she countered by saying her boyfriend had installed Ad-Aware. I was just as "wtf" as you but she linked the website to prove it does AV now. I didn't want to argue my point any further, it's just too much hassle and maybe she'll be safe (although I never learned how her hotmail was compromised).
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Morris posted:45% ...Wow. Reading those affiliate testimonials, it's pretty obvious the people slinging this poo poo don't care at ALL about their user base.
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Gilok posted:Yeah, that's about what I thought. Can you explain why in any detail? AVG doesn't catch enough viruses to be worth it. Also, when I ran the free version, there didn't seem to be an option to exclude folders, so it kept deleting my toolbox of rootkit removers, tcp stack patches, and other files that were suspicious but not dangerous. It seemed to slow down my computer's performance too; way more than kaspersky or other AV options.
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RichieWolk posted:AVG doesn't catch enough viruses to be worth it. This is the most important part; it's just really fallen behind on detection rates. About two years ago it was in my 'goto' kit but it just doesn't seem to have the chops any more.
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Some people just don't trust a free anti-virus. Those people I direct towards Kaspersky or NOD32.
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pienipple posted:Some people just don't trust a free anti-virus. Those people I direct towards Kaspersky or NOD32. Some private clients were hesitant to go down the MSE route. Someone here in SHSC threw the "you paid for it, its included in Windows whatnot license" line and I used it. No more Norton or whatchamacallit bloatware. Also. Is it worth the trouble to replace MSE with Forefront client security? I'm rocking MSE on personal machines but got FFSC from campus MSDNAA site.
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Megiddo posted:There's really a lot more to it than that, if you want to keep your machine secure: I added this info to the OP. Suggestions for further additions should be sent to me via PM as I don't check this thread regularly anymore. I am however very flattered that 3 years later it is still going strong.
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Is it me or is MSE starting to miss a bunch of these new(ish) rogues? I'm seeing an increasing number of computers in our shop with MSE installed running WINDOWS 7 VISTA RECOVERY DISK etc that has just gone through and either disabled MSE or is going undetected by it.
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Jun 14, 2011 02:39
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This is just a little bit off topic, but I've gotten a couple stranger than usual emails lately and I can't make sense of it. Here's the raw text of the email from Gmail, scrubbed of personal info of course. There's three things that make this seem really really strange, though. First of all, I've never heard of this person and I didn't actually receive a message on my Facebook account. Not particularly unusual if it was just a spoofed email, but that's the other thing, looking over all the headers and stuff, it looks completely legitimate. Finally, I don't use this email with my Facebook account, I have a completely different email tied to my Facebook account, so why would Facebook be sending any messages at all to that account? After looking this email over and over again for about 15 minutes, I copy-pasted one of the links to reply since it pointed to www.facebook.com and I figured it couldn't do any damage, and it just redirected me back to www.facebook.com. I went back through all my privacy and security settings too, nothing changed there. I got another similar "hey let's have sex" sort of message as well as this one, same deal, looked legit. It's pretty obvious these are spam messages of some sort, but I can't figure out why they're being sent by Facebook itself to a non-Facebook email I have, and what they're designed to accomplish once they arrive. Normally I'd just ignore stuff like this and be on my way, but the fact it seems to be getting sent by Facebook itself is a little bit worrying. code:Sikreci fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jun 14, 2011 |
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Just wondering, does anyone have experience with Symantec Endpoint Protection? My school is offering it for free and is really encouraging students to use it, but their reasons are literally "it's free and won't expire". I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials right now, but should I switch over? I can't seem to Google up any reliable comparisons on which one is better.
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You should try and snatch up as many licences of that from your school as you can and throw them into a fire in hopes that they run out of keys to give away. In short, no.
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it's about time for me to put together another compendium of my 'AMAZING ANTIVIRUS SAVIOR CDROM/USBSTICK 6.0' my last one was my first one, I'm just getting back into the game as far as virus purging goes. so, I'm looking for some feedback of anything I might be missing. one thing I know I want but am having trouble finding is a good bootable indepth antivirus/malware program for systems where I can't even boot into windows. I looked at the kaspersky boot cd one, but the very first system I tried it on, it wouldn't detect the harddrive (on a dell laptop) or some bullshit and basically wouldn't finish booting up - so obviously it's out. anyways, here's what was on my last one : combofix desktoptaskmanager mwbam MSE installer, x64/x86 TDSSkiller gmer superantispyware portable with defs rkill procexp an avgfree installer for kicks critical feedback encouraged!
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Jun 16, 2011 06:07
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mindphlux posted:it's about time for me to put together another compendium of my 'AMAZING ANTIVIRUS SAVIOR CDROM/USBSTICK 6.0' The AVGfree is pretty much useless.
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Dad Jokes posted:Just wondering, does anyone have experience with Symantec Endpoint Protection? My school is offering it for free and is really encouraging students to use it, but their reasons are literally "it's free and won't expire". SEP is barely a speedbump to things now.
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Dad Jokes posted:Just wondering, does anyone have experience with Symantec Endpoint Protection? My school is offering it for free and is really encouraging students to use it, but their reasons are literally "it's free and won't expire". We have a saying in the ticket thread- SEP stands for Someone Else's Problem. Unfortunately I manage some of the administration and dispatch the desktop support guys from the virus logs of SEP, and most of the time to actually get rid of the virus they have to use a portable version of another AV. Symantec is probably the second or third worst of the major antiviruses right now. At least it isn't McAfee, having McAfee is worse than having a virus in most cases.
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:We have a saying in the ticket thread- SEP stands for Someone Else's Problem. Unfortunately I manage some of the administration and dispatch the desktop support guys from the virus logs of SEP, and most of the time to actually get rid of the virus they have to use a portable version of another AV. Symantec is probably the second or third worst of the major antiviruses right now. What about Norton? Are their latest offerings as terrible as their older suites?
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Quick question with Ketarin: Is there a way to force updates? I have it set up to run daily, but some of the more important files aren't updating at all.
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TwoKnives posted:What about Norton? Are their latest offerings as terrible as their older suites? Not nearly. They're still poo poo, though.
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mindphlux posted:it's about time for me to put together another compendium of my 'AMAZING ANTIVIRUS SAVIOR CDROM/USBSTICK 6.0' SafeMSI (or instructions for how to do it manually) is really useful if you're like me and forget how to do it every single time.
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Is windows firewall worth using, or should I get a third party one? Any good free third party firewalls, and what type of settings should the average person use?
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The general consensus is that windows firewall is good enough. You should make sure the firewall on your router is enabled too.
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lazer_chicken posted:SafeMSI (or instructions for how to do it manually) is really useful if you're like me and forget how to do it every single time. hey presto, I didn't even know about this. Thanks, that will be useful - I wasted an hour on a machine a couple weeks ago trying to figure out how to do windows installer in safe mode - I just figured it was truly disabled - didn't even think to google it.
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TwoKnives posted:What about Norton? Are their latest offerings as terrible as their older suites? Generally, yes. Norton is basically what you buy if you want a flashy looking GUI frontend, but dont actually give a crap about securing your computer. Personally, I find having MSE running in the background and scanning with SUPERAntiSpyware and MBAM occasionally to be more than enough, and they're all free!
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Thanks. I was arguing with some guy on another forum who was trying to convince people that you paid suites are inherently better and the only way to stay safe. He runs an IT shop, so he has an obvious agenda. It says everything that he's still recommending Norton.
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Had a laptop with Windows Recovery in, but MBAM cleaned it right up. It's a good thing it didn't get anything else as well or that could have made it more difficult. Put MSE on it and it's good for now.
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Shardivh posted:Generally, yes. Norton is basically what you buy if you want a flashy looking GUI frontend, but dont actually give a crap about securing your computer. Personally, I find having MSE running in the background and scanning with SUPERAntiSpyware and MBAM occasionally to be more than enough, and they're all free! A friend of a friend was quite hostile when I suggested that I wouldn't necessarily trust Norton over MSE, and they pointed to http://www.av-comparatives.org/ to "prove" that it was one of the best. (Despite that site ranking MSE very highly as well...) I didn't bother to argue with them because I suspect it would be like arguing with a brick wall, but if they start pushing it again, are there any sources about lack security that I can point them at to make them shut up?
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Morris posted:Paid Avira users are now getting spam from Uniblue (the registry cleaner scamware people). I thought their mailing list had been stolen or something. Well I guess I'll be moving myself and my family away from them. Pity, they've served us well ever since the free-av days. edit: By the looks of it, AVG has fallen off the wagon so I guess MSE is the best bet now? Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jun 24, 2011 |
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Nam Taf posted:Well I guess I'll be moving myself and my family away from them. Pity, they've served us well ever since the free-av days. MSE is the best free offering, NOD32 or Kaspersky if someone insists on a paid AV.
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Nam Taf posted:Well I guess I'll be moving myself and my family away from them. Pity, they've served us well ever since the free-av days. I switched to MSE and it's great, but the dance with AV software seems to be finding the one that is currently both 1. free and 2. pre-bloat. Eventually they all go loving nuts with features you don't need and resource hogging, some of them put it to better use than others and actually do something with the resources they're hogging while AVG has a crazy high miss rate (and throws up a lot of false positives for me, too, when using anything that intercepts memory - a combination of poor heuristic detection and insufficient automated protection plus its steadily increasing opaqueness and difficulty meant that switching to MSE was a welcome relief, frankly). MSE now reminds me of AVG in 2007. How is MSE's spyware side of things? I'm hard and soft firewalled and run noscript, adblock, all that jazz, and browse carefully - haven't had a spyware infestation since I was a teenager - but it's good to know where you stand, and I don't like Spybot S&D's dramatic and fairly silly "immunization" compared to just a quality "nope, denied" from a program. MSE fit the bill, or is there a new name in spyware detection and elimination I should look into? Agreed fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Jun 24, 2011 |
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Regarding those Windows x Recovery infections, if you need to find the start menu items, they'll be in the temp folder in a directory starting with the letters "sm"
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Has anyone encountered Windows AV Component? It seems to be pretty new, the oldest entry I can find about it is about 2 days old. A guest at the hotel where I work came down with this and I offered to remove it since I've removed those fake anti-viruses a gazillion times before for friends. Alas I was unable to do anything. It prevents me from running taskmanager, so I am unable to kill the process, which prevents me from deleting the file. I've tried doing it in safe mode and all that jazz. Will deleting the registry entries connected to the software help at all? I'm kinda bummed that the virus/trojan bested me.
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any colour you like posted:Has anyone encountered Windows AV Component? It seems to be pretty new, the oldest entry I can find about it is about 2 days old. Use safe mode. If that doesn't work, use safe mode with command prompt. If you can't use the task manager proper, try doing "Run as Administrator" on %systemroot%\system32\taskmgr.exe . If that doesn't work, try [url=http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/]D Task Manager] If Safe Mode / Safe Mode with Networking won't get the pesky thing to stop launching, it's time for you to do it manually! Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Recovery Console, or Repair your Computer off the Windows Disk. Check the following locations: %userprofile%\appdata\local %userprofile%\appdata\local\microsoft %userprofile%\appdata\roaming %userprofile%\appdata\roaming\microsoft %programdata% Make sure to run rd %temp% /s too to make sure that's nuked. Or just be lazy and run system restore. Peasy. \/ Welcome. PopeOnARope fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jun 27, 2011 |
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Thanks a lot. That did the trick 
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any colour you like posted:Has anyone encountered Windows AV Component? Actually just got one in today with this on it, but this customer is known for his porn and piracy habits so it's no surprise he got it. Standard tools worked fine in this case (Combofix, Hitman Pro, MBAM, SAS Portable).
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Does anyone have that list of virus domain names? I am trying to test out some stuff. Oh wait I found it Okay, I have 3 evils to choose from... AVG, standard A/V 2bucks/yr Norton, not the enterprise version Trend Micro, not the professional one which is the "best" I am looking at AVG as it is like 2 bucks a seat, the machines are beefy enough to handle it E5800 3.2ghz dual core, 2GB ram, 7200RPM HDD 250. Norton Well I have never had a good experience, Trend Micro seems like Macafee to me, but I have never used it. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Little update on the latest TDSS variant: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/tdss_alureon_advances/ 4.5 million infections in 3 months.
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Is TDSSKiller still good at catching tdss/tdl4? I've been running it on every machine we get in for virus removal, and I don't think it has found anything in the past month or so. Some of these viruses are starting to get downright nasty, marking profiles as hidden, moving desktop icons, start menu items, etc into random folders, patching the mbr to load infected drivers and being able to bypass patchguard/kernel patch protection. And it seems like MSE is starting to fail at preventing some of these infections. I've also been seeing multiple machines with viruses that actually just plain trash MSE and render it unusable.
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Scaramouche posted:Little update on the latest TDSS variant: quote:TDL-4 also adds the ability to communicate over the Kad peer-to-peer network. In the event there is a takedown of the 60 or more command and control servers used to maintain the TDSS botnet (hard but not impossible given the recent eradications of the Rustock and Coreflood botnets), the infected TDSS machines can receive instructions using a custom built Kad client. 
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