Soldato
Put what in quarantine? ive not had anything harmfull that i know of my pc for years, stop going on dodgy website and downlaoding dodgy stuff? are viruses even a thing any more?
Should I be worried?
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Put what in quarantine? ive not had anything harmfull that i know of my pc for years, stop going on dodgy website and downlaoding dodgy stuff? are viruses even a thing any more?
Associate
I think he/she/ it needs to chop up the harddrive then burn it and travel to the white cliffs of Dover to scattered the ashes.
I been told this might me the only solution.
I been told this might me the only solution.
Soldato
Microsoft Defender Antivirus (was Windows Defender) is Windows built-in AV and offers the similar basics, plus a bit of malware detection, as other off-the-shelf products.
Yes, you've also now got malware and ransomware to deal with (on the majority of popular platforms).
There is really no point in paying for these things now. Many of them are walking a fine line of being adware themselves and are very bloated. Just Windows defender is better.
Malwarebytes was compromised and malicious code hidden in a few years back. Kaspersky is Russian so you can't trust that one but.
Malwarebytes was compromised and malicious code hidden in a few years back. Kaspersky is Russian so you can't trust that one but.
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Soldato
I simply never click on anything ever. Only way to be sure.
Soldato
Got a source for this? My Google-fu is failing me on finding anything to do with Malwarebytes having compromised source code/builds.
They did get tied up with 'Dark Halo' in 2021, the Solarwinds compromise, but it was limited to "a subset of" internal emails from what i remember - Malwarebytes had a blog posts on the incident but can't find it now.
Edit - For anyone remotely interested, blog post on Malwarebytes 'Dark Halo' incident - https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/n...n-state-actor-implicated-in-solarwinds-breach
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Associate
This is why I use 3 accounts. One for pure one time sign ups with no intention of using again (actually a few new one this yearthough). Second for sign ups for good and services and third being personal email address.
According to that link first one has been "pwned" 10+ times haha. 2nd one 3x and main one never.
According to that link first one has been "pwned" 10+ times haha. 2nd one 3x and main one never.
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Caporegime
Mods? Mods!
Soldato
Have you tried AdAware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Norton Antivirus 2003?
Caporegime
Yes
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yes in past lives, now use windows defender and dont click on anything
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I don't even turn my computer on, I'm writing this via technokinesis
Caporegime
Yes, you should be worried.
Man of Honour
It's fine but Windows 10 will soon be unsupported unless you pay a business premium yearly. Best to update to 11...
Man of Honour
Sadly it will have to be upgraded come next year because of the above unless you want to pay MS the £69 a year or whatever they are planning on charging!
I may just bin it off. The entire PC would need to be ungraded. No way I'm spending 1000-2000 on something I use every now and again.
So wasteful with 1000s of pcs becoming unsupported.
69 a year is probably better than scrapping. Will have to weigh up the best solution.
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Soldato
A fresh install of Windows 98 is the only safe solution here.
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Install Mint if it will do everything you need, that's probably what I'm going to do.