Guest fiznuthian Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Speak of the devil.I usually just stream TV shows instead of watching them on the television because I hate advertisements with a fiery passion. I got anxious to watch the new Saul and popped a torrent into my client. Ended up being a bunk mp4 and a packaged hijack. Lost control of Windows process manager, every browser (chrome & IE), msconfig, regedit, etc.. Took them all down with forced redirects. Minutes later I lost connectivity altogether. Luckily I keep a spare windows installer on a thumb drive and this partition wiped and reinstalled within 15 minutes. I'll be purchasing ESET Nod32 again soon I think.. Their license is quite affordable and it's hands down the best AV there is. This is what I get for being cocky (also for just doing my daily habitual shit on a windows machine instead of linux). edit: Also just a reminder to BACKUP YOUR DATA. I keep my precious media and data on a seperate drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allize Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Speak of the devil. I usually just stream TV shows instead of watching them on the television because I hate advertisements with a fiery passion. I got anxious to watch the new Saul and popped a torrent into my client. Ended up being a bunk mp4 and a packaged hijack. Lost control of Windows process manager, every browser (chrome & IE), msconfig, regedit, etc.. Took them all down with forced redirects. Minutes later I lost connectivity altogether. Luckily I keep a spare windows installer on a thumb drive and this partition wiped and reinstalled within 15 minutes. I'll be purchasing ESET Nod32 again soon I think.. Their license is quite affordable and it's hands down the best AV there is. This is what I get for being cocky (also for just doing my daily habitual shit on a windows machine instead of linux). edit: Also just a reminder to BACKUP YOUR DATA. I keep my precious media and data on a seperate drive. dude you just pressed the wrong download banner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Speak of the devil. I usually just stream TV shows instead of watching them on the television because I hate advertisements with a fiery passion. I got anxious to watch the new Saul and popped a torrent into my client. Ended up being a bunk mp4 and a packaged hijack. Lost control of Windows process manager, every browser (chrome & IE), msconfig, regedit, etc.. Took them all down with forced redirects. Minutes later I lost connectivity altogether. Luckily I keep a spare windows installer on a thumb drive and this partition wiped and reinstalled within 15 minutes. I'll be purchasing ESET Nod32 again soon I think.. Their license is quite affordable and it's hands down the best AV there is. This is what I get for being cocky (also for just doing my daily habitual shit on a windows machine instead of linux). edit: Also just a reminder to BACKUP YOUR DATA. I keep my precious media and data on a seperate drive. dude you just pressed the wrong download banner no, it was a torrent with 600 other seeds? and strangely it was located on kickbutt with upvotes and added by an account with reputation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avarik Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 ESET + MalwareBytes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 ESET + MalwareBytes Got it. Years ago I was at a friend's house and his dad's computer was becoming dominated by a aggressive virus of some kind. It was very quickly disabling and removing any anti-virus installed to the machine. I think he was running McAfee or Norton, one of the big ones. Even Nod32 was being disabled. I tried to install it from a thumb drive. I eventually came up with the idea to reboot into safe-mode, install Nod32 temporarily and hope that it's heuristic ability has fighting chance. Sure enough if detected shit and quaranteed it's ass with some generic name. Eset doesn't fuck around. http://www.eset.com/us/resources/white-papers/Heuristic_Analysis.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avarik Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 You can create a bootable disc from ESET (or almost any AV software) too if things get too sticky. I also run CCleaner from time to time to keep Windows from falling apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 fackin winblows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avarik Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Windoze is real fast and pretty good with a decent user operating it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivy Zemura yvI oo ii oo Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 theyre all shit i dont even use any anymore. browse in a linux virtual machine like others said and you are as close as you can get to invincible or run your browser in sandboxie (not positive on how safe this is im no longer up to date but i bet its just as safe as the above) better yet, do that plus keep disk images of your hdd in a pristine state for future use and you can cure all OCD os cleaning tendencies in the future or switch to linux where you can forget the stupid images and reinstall from a plain old iso of your distro, but any time you make a permanent change to your system automate it by creating your own custom post-install bash script to re-setup your os which you can run any time you reinstall if you are feeling paranoid. this is all overkill just use sandboxie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avarik Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 But will sandbox played half life 3 scored by afx? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 i think avast is the problem with my pc cause sometimes it is slow but im too pussy to uninstall it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I wonder why all antivirus software aren't by default invisible with a small footprint running in the background and only pops up when something is happening? Who thought it was a good idea to have bloatware and all other useless crap slapped on to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 That's why I moved to BitDefender: Avast was popping stuff up all the flipping time that it would've probably been lest obtrusive to actually have adware on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Tested ESET smart security on a virtual machine Windows install and going wild scouring the net for suspect links and downloads. It detected every single one and neutralized the few downloads I did manage to start before they even finished. It's also as lightweight and non-bloat as nod32 always was. Guess I'm going to stick with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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