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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Rootkit.KInject is a sexy new virus. Let's talk about notable viruses we have recently encountered
 
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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Bob Morales posted:

Tom's did a test where they measured PC performance with various anti-virus and security packages installed, and also with a 'bare' system.

They should have also tested and older system (one you'd be asked by your grandma or co-worker to 'fix') and they also should have tested Microsoft Security Essentials.
Baseline for this should be a single core laptop with 1GB RAM running unpatched Vista on a 4200rpm HDD. The kind where clicking on the start menu takes about 15 seconds register.

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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?
 My main beef with NoScript is that it's useless if one of the servers you've whitelisted is compromised.

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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
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Scaramouche posted:

You guys weren't using that Java were you?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/27/disable_java_to_block_exploit/
"Users urged to disable Java as new exploit emerges"
Phew, that only affects Java 7 versions. Our current SOE JRE is Java 6u29! (And the standard flash version is something from the 10.2 line, about 25 versions out of date.)

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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Khablam posted:

Sadly my experience of MSE is that it is completely useless, and 3rd party evaluation doesn't score it much higher.* It does nothing to block/analyse network traffic and executions until it's already in the working memory, by that time it's usually too late. Decent commercial AVs (Trend Micro is a good example, as is BitDefender) and Avast! Free will scan incoming traffic for these infections and stop the transfer a long time before they're able to execute.
Microsoft aren't nostalgic enough for their massive legal battles enough with the EU & US governments enough to try and give away a complete AV/antimalware suite for free.

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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Ynglaur posted:

#badbios was never proven to even exist.
ahh, but was it ever proven not to exist?
:smuggo:

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Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

bobbilljim posted:

I'm new to SHSC, is it normal in here to emptyquote and do single emote posts, as well as call people names?
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