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If there is stuff that you must simply keep on the PC then remove the HDD, swap in a fresh one, reinstall Windows and then mount the old one to a Linux or something to pull files off. Also make sure you go through your mum's accounts and remove any app access (That poo poo where an app gets issued a token for perm access to the account). My grandma's FB account got compromised a while ago through one of those. Changing passwords and enabling MFA didn't do poo poo because the mechanism popping the account had access via the token.
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Alright, thanks guys. Now that I finally sat and powered it up I see I’m in over my with the amount of poo poo installed that’s visible, let alone what I can’t just see with my eyes. My biggest concern is her thousands of poems  Ill probably offload them onto a usb drive that I never plan on using and clearly label as compromised, just in case, then I’ll follow your advice.
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tophet posted:Alright, thanks guys. Now that I finally sat and powered it up I see I’m in over my with the amount of poo poo installed that’s visible, let alone what I can’t just see with my eyes. My biggest concern is her thousands of poems Offload to USB, load in Linux, convert to straight text. Save that poo poo
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The important thing here being to not connect the potentially infected drive to the newly reinstalled system because then you'll potentially just undo everything. Attaching the drive to a Linux system is usually good as it's very unlikely that whatever is on it would be able to pop a Linux system.
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You can do one better. Just make a USB boot drive with linux universal usb installer, and pick a distro that comes with a lot of drivers. I have a knoppix thumbdrive for emergencies, and its good to just get a system up and running, usually has wi-fi drivers on hand, and reads NTSF natively. Sometimes you need to change the boot order to prioritize usb above hdd or cdrom, especially on older systems. You can boot the same system into linux, save/convert the poems (or any other relevant docs), or even do a drive clone if you really need a backup of the infected OS, before you flatten the windows install.
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Jan 25, 2020 22:39
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Very cool, thank you all for the help.
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Is KeePass 2.x still the best non-cloud password manager? Also, is it sane to only put it on my phone and manually type my passwords into my desktop, or should I just have it on both? I just found out that I have to change a bunch of my passwords (again) so if it's smart to switch (or install the desktop KeePass client) then now is the time.
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Pretty much. It also has universal device/OS support. I like KeepassXC.
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Plastik posted:Also, is it sane to only put it on my phone and manually type my passwords into my desktop What's your reasoning here?
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Rufus Ping posted:What's your reasoning here? That someone can't compromise my computer and have access to both my password database and a browser that is trusted on all of my accounts. At least if they got my phone I'd still have security questions to stop them (with nonsense answers) because I only log into my bank account through Private Browsing on my mobile device. Obviously any platform with real 2fa obviate this, but my credit union for example has not figured this out in a reliable way. E: I mean, I could log into my bank accounts with Private Browsing on my desktop I guess. Or I could just have faith in KeePass or the fact that I'm not a big enough fish for anyone to try that hard. I don't know, I've had accounts compromised before. Maybe I'm paranoid. Shit Fuckasaurus fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Plastik posted:Is KeePass 2.x still the best non-cloud password manager? Also, is it sane to only put it on my phone and manually type my passwords into my desktop, or should I just have it on both? Question about Keepass: what is up with the Keepass Firefox plugin? A while back it changed its name to 'Kee' or something and it started advertising about putting your passwords in the Kee cloud platform instead of in KeePass. Have they gone evil?
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Plastik posted:That someone can't compromise my computer and have access to both my password database and a browser that is trusted on all of my accounts. At least if they got my phone I'd still have security questions to stop them (with nonsense answers) because I only log into my bank account through Private Browsing on my mobile device. your KeePass vault is secured with a (hopefully strong) password. Just manually copy/paste, or better yet use the autotype function(this applies on your phone too) and you should be good. If they get your vault, all the have is an encrypted data blob without the keys to decrypt it. If they can, then you were screwed anyway
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Carbon dioxide posted:Question about Keepass: what is up with the Keepass Firefox plugin? A while back it changed its name to 'Kee' or something and it started advertising about putting your passwords in the Kee cloud platform instead of in KeePass. With keepass, use PassIfox and KeepassHTTP
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Khablam posted:These aren't related, not sure how you got that, other than name similarity. They are very much related, because Kee is a direct successor to the Keefox addon that did the same thing as the two addons you mentioned. So everyone who used Keefox got updated to Kee and can still use it with a local database (but they're encouraging you to buy their cloud thing instead) It's what got me to switch to KeepassXC instead of looking for another addon for the original Keepass
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speaking of keepass, i'm using a bunch of triggers in keepass to sync my database to a ssh server, is this doable with keepassxc yet? i wanna get rid of the lovely mono app, but when i last checked keepassxc hasn't supported that on windows yet.
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Truga posted:speaking of keepass, i'm using a bunch of triggers in keepass to sync my database to a ssh server, is this doable with keepassxc yet? i wanna get rid of the lovely mono app, but when i last checked keepassxc hasn't supported that on windows yet. I love keepass and use the iOS and windows app: I sync it using one drive manually. I also keep the version I use in windows on a thumb drive for extra portability. I don’t trust browser plugins because I’m distrustful. I also don’t know of a good MacOS version though... is there a recent one that works on MacOS? The encryption algo and one of the windows clients is open source right? I really hope they aren’t becoming evil
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Tamba posted:They are very much related, because Kee is a direct successor to the Keefox addon that did the same thing as the two addons you mentioned. quote:So everyone who used Keefox got updated to Kee and can still use it with a local database (but they're encouraging you to buy their cloud thing instead) Thanks! I didn't know about KeepassXC and just switched.
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namlosh posted:I love keepass and use the iOS and windows app: I sync it using one drive manually. I also keep the version I use in windows on a thumb drive for extra portability. I don’t trust browser plugins because I’m distrustful. I also don’t know of a good MacOS version though... is there a recent one that works on MacOS? I use MacPass on MacOS, looks and works very similar to the Windows version. All of the core KeepAss code is open source, it's just the 3rd party ports that aren't all open source. On my iPhone I use MiniKeePass, and iPad is KeePassium because for some reason MiniKeePass isn't available in my region any more. AFAIK MiniKeePass is the only one for iOS that's completely ad-free and doesn't have any upsells.
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beuges posted:I use MacPass on MacOS, looks and works very similar to the Windows version. All of the core KeepAss code is open source, it's just the 3rd party ports that aren't all open source. On my iPhone I use MiniKeePass, and iPad is KeePassium because for some reason MiniKeePass isn't available in my region any more. AFAIK MiniKeePass is the only one for iOS that's completely ad-free and doesn't have any upsells. MacPass! Thanks! I’ll look for it. That’s what I use as well on my phone, you made me remember: MiniKeePass on iOS Seriously, set up your .kdbx file to sync on a OneDrive account or something and it’s easy to have your passwords anywhere. And once the app is open, it’s just a couple of clicks to copy and paste username and password to other apps and websites. I never found the small extra convenience of a browser plugin to be worth the extra worry. My wife calls me for any of our passwords now... she knows how to get them herself if needs be, but I don’t mind 
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If you are going to put your keepass database in OneDrive, set Keepass to work out of a local non-synced copy and set a macro to mirror it to the synced copy when you actually make a modification. OneDrive has trouble working around the database being in use, which it is even when keepass is locked, and it'll gently caress up and fail to sync other files or duplicate the database a bunch of times.
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Eikre posted:If you are going to put your keepass database in OneDrive, set Keepass to work out of a local non-synced copy and set a macro to mirror it to the synced copy when you actually make a modification. KeePass.db KeePass.db-COMPUTERNAME KeePass.db-COMPUTERNAME(1) KeePass.db-COMPUTERNAME(2) KeePass.db-COMPUTERNAME(3) KeePass.db-COMPUTERNAME(4)
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I thought a bunch of people in this thread switched to Bitwarden? I did from Keepass and it’s really great.
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I did, and I agree that it's way more user-friendly.
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Thirding Bitwarden, the extensive and phone app are really good.
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Does the OP's section about antivirus products apply to ClamAV on Linux? Is it at all useful to install ClamAV on a Linux system?
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Carbon dioxide posted:Does the OP's section about antivirus products apply to ClamAV on Linux? Yes the OP applies to ClamAV because ClamAV is an antivirus product. I personally don't see any benefit to installing ClamAV on Linux systems beyond box-ticking asinine compliance reports.
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I have a SIM card/phone related security question. My wife dropped her phone in our neighborhood and it got found by a woman who lives nearby. She apparently gave it to her husband who pulled the SIM card and got my wife's information, after which he called verizon who called me. I have the phone back with the SIM card, but my issue is that I'm way too ignorant and polluted with movies to know what he could/couldn't have done with the card while he had it out. My question is A) could he have duplicated the SIM card or do some other technowizardry to be able to make calls/receive texts using my wife's number despite me having the original phone and SIM in hand? I know it's her SIM because the phone is working properly with her phone number. B) If he could theoretically do some shady poo poo, what are my protection options? New SIM? New phone? New number?
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Theoretically, new everything. Realistically he probably just took it out to eyeball the number printed on the card so the people at Verizon would know whose card (and phone) it was.
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Geemer posted:Theoretically, new everything. Realistically he probably just took it out to eyeball the number printed on the card so the people at Verizon would know whose card (and phone) it was. That’s what I’m thinking, since he had to relay through Verizon. I happened to be near our neighborhood Verizon store so I popped in and they told me there’s no way he could have duplicated the card and have it work in a different device, so I’m feeling a bit better about it.
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sephiRoth IRA posted:That’s what I’m thinking, since he had to relay through Verizon. I happened to be near our neighborhood Verizon store so I popped in and they told me there’s no way he could have duplicated the card and have it work in a different device, so I’m feeling a bit better about it. Hey, while we have you could you please link the comic your avatar is from?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Hey, while we have you could you please link the comic your avatar is from? It came up in the comics pyf thread and was awesome- I went and googled it, and apparently it’s a Vice.com artist? Which kinda dings it, but here it is: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/ppzpn8/ryan-comic-460-v17n6
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I have a SIM card/phone related security question. My wife dropped her phone in our neighborhood and it got found by a woman who lives nearby. She apparently gave it to her husband who pulled the SIM card and got my wife's information, after which he called verizon who called me. I have the phone back with the SIM card, but my issue is that I'm way too ignorant and polluted with movies to know what he could/couldn't have done with the card while he had it out. If you were to fully duplicate a SIM I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work because a network won't allow 2 SIMs with exactly the same number to be connected at once (not just the phone number but also the SIM's internal serial number). This would prob trigger some fraud detection on Verizon's end, they'd block both cards, contact you to ask what's up, and after you explain it, they'll just send you a replacement SIM card. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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I have an old one tera drive lying around with vista on it and I want to encrypt it. Veracrypt fails to install. I also tried installing linux mint alongside it to see if I could encrypt the whole drive, but that was no good either. I am willing to spend upto 0 dollars on this.
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Is it only going to be used with Windows? If so then BitLocker is perfectly fine.
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Isn't bitlocker only for professional and enterprise on vista? I have home premium. I know there are lots of ways around the problem, but I'd like to keep the drive as is, frozen in time, if possible.
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uguu posted:Isn't bitlocker only for professional and enterprise on vista? I have home premium. I know there are lots of ways around the problem, but I'd like to keep the drive as is, frozen in time, if possible. Wait why are we talking about Vista? Assuming a mistype IIRC the TPM-backed version is only available on Pro or Enterprise but but the password-based "BitLocker To Go" is available on all versions.
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uguu posted:Isn't bitlocker only for professional and enterprise on vista? I have home premium. I know there are lots of ways around the problem, but I'd like to keep the drive as is, frozen in time, if possible. Can you image it onto some other media and encrypt that drive with your package of choice?
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Midjack posted:Can you image it onto some other media and encrypt that drive with your package of choice? Unofrtunately not, it is my biggest drive. Pile Of Garbage posted:Wait why are we talking about Vista? Cause it has vista installed on it. I'll try adding a windows 10 drive and then using bitlocker to go on the vista drive. Thanks for the tip!
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