trojan.dropper.bcminer

It's almost always a trade off with convenience. UAC is highly recommended to keep on, but at the end of the day it's your computer. Backing up is a good strategy, but then you're assuming any malware infection advertises its presence. That's not always the case, and you could be unwittingly backing up an infected OS.

It's all fun and games.
 
I wish MS would allow certain 3rd party developers to use windows update.

Having Flash and Java deployed through windows update would be an ideal solution, it's win/win
 
Well we're kind of getting there with Windows 8 as Metro apps update through the store and IE 10 (which includes Flash) updates via Windows Update. Plus there is an integrated PDF reader.
 
theheyes said:
It's almost always a trade off with convenience. UAC is highly recommended to keep on, but at the end of the day it's your computer. Backing up is a good strategy, but then you're assuming any malware infection advertises its presence. That's not always the case, and you could be unwittingly backing up an infected OS.

It's all fun and games.
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I hear what you are saying and pretty much agree with you on all your points.

If only there was a way to "allow" trusted (well trusted by you) applications in UAC. Even applications like Intel RST control panel trigger it. The danger still is I think with UAC, that you fast (well I suspect a lot of people) start just clicking through the UAC prompts and accepting pretty much everything. I'm sure some will disagree, but that's what seems to happen a lot from what I can see. A classic case I suppose of "you can't protect yourself from yourself".

Re - backing up. Yes I was sweating there, as to how far this problem went back. But as MBAM found this particular nasty (and doesn't now) I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm OK. Think I've run more security sweeps in the last couple of days, than in the last year. Paranoid I am now!
 
mikeo said:
The danger still is I think with UAC, that you fast (well I suspect a lot of people) start just clicking through the UAC prompts and accepting pretty much everything. I'm sure some will disagree, but that's what seems to happen a lot from what I can see. A classic case I suppose of "you can't protect yourself from yourself".
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By disabling UAC, you're allowing every application to run with administrator privileges.
 
KIA said:
By disabling UAC, you're allowing every application to run with administrator privileges.
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You have a point there.

I think you've convinced me to put it back on. I'll just have to learn to put up with it's nagging. Better safe than sorry I suppose.
 
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