I just used System Restore after getting hit with "Win 7 Antispyware 2012". Urgh, it's getting to where even good sites aren't safe due to attacks via ads.
Since I'm pretty sure there are badass malwares and spywares that can evade Restore, what kind of proactive defense measures are there to stop this crap from getting into my system? I'm DLing malwarebytes ATM to go with avast!.
Damned malware....
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Damned malware....
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
Re: Damned malware....
Adblock plus and Noscript for Firefox.
As for anti-malware I go with Mircosoft Security Essentials.
As for anti-malware I go with Mircosoft Security Essentials.
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Re: Damned malware....
Thanks.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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Re: Damned malware....
Agree on adbloc + noscript, but be warned that microsoft security essentials did poorly on late tests (sorry for the links but they fuck over forum formatting, copy paste it into your broswer's url area)
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/test ... no]=113917
AVG's free suiteseems to do significantly better.
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/test ... no]=113960
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/test ... no]=113917
AVG's free suiteseems to do significantly better.
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/test ... no]=113960
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Stereotypical spacecraft are pressurized.
Less realistic spacecraft are pressurized to hold breathing atmosphere.
Realistic spacecraft are pressurized because they are flying propellant tanks. -Isaac Kuo
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Good art has function as well as form. I hesitate to spend more than $50 on decorations of any kind unless they can be used to pummel an intruder into submission. -Sriad
Re: Damned malware....
I've had good history with Avast, I think I've only gotten one virus while using them. NoScript helps with the 0day or older bugs that plague the Adobe products (flash, reader, etc) embedded in web pages and helps block those annoying video ads. Ads with sound need to die in a fire.
Does any other anti-virus have a feature similar to Avast's boot time scan? That thing has helped me fix more computers than I can count.
Does any other anti-virus have a feature similar to Avast's boot time scan? That thing has helped me fix more computers than I can count.
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Re: Damned malware....
That Win7 Antispyware 2012 I've seen get past Avast on two seperate occasions (on an XP box, where it just calls itself by the proper name).
The recommendation of adblockplus and noscript is a good one. Even non-skeevy sites have problems with attack ads now, it seems.
The recommendation of adblockplus and noscript is a good one. Even non-skeevy sites have problems with attack ads now, it seems.
Truth fears no trial.
Re: Damned malware....
I've installed ABP and No Script.
And yeah, when I got this I'd been viewing Spoony Experiment.
And yeah, when I got this I'd been viewing Spoony Experiment.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED