My email account was hacked into due to a hidden trojan - It can happen to you!!!!

[IPD]

even if someone activates webcam, it's impossible to see through a piece of electrical tape.

[Mikes2nd]

you guys call yourself computer guys and you have troubles with viruses? rofl.

one... if you ever have a problem, simply get Microsoft essentials defender offline... (its a whole boot from cd OS, updates and runs essentials, yes it kills the FBI 500$
virus and everything else I've seen).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...fender-offline

Security essentials was getting lazy I think lately, but they are back up to speed now and with more people moving to W7/dumb people to ipads it only helps.

Obviously anti virus programmers revise their stuff to try to avoid detection and anti virus programmers are not very good.

two: if you haven't figured it out yet, anti virus makers and "viruses' are a gimmick...

three: try host file blocker. It works pretty well also. I only use a host file, update once a month and Microsoft essentials.

Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

[IPD]

go away, troll.

[DrGonzo]

you guys call yourself computer guys and you have troubles with viruses? rofl.

one... if you ever have a problem, simply get Microsoft essentials defender offline... (its a whole boot from cd OS, updates and runs essentials, yes it kills the FBI 500$
virus and everything else I've seen).

What is Windows Defender Offline?

Security essentials was getting lazy I think lately, but they are back up to speed now and with more people moving to W7/dumb people to ipads it only helps.

Obviously anti virus programmers revise their stuff to try to avoid detection and anti virus programmers are not very good.

two: if you haven't figured it out yet, anti virus makers and "viruses' are a gimmick...

three: try host file blocker. It works pretty well also. I only use a host file, update once a month and Microsoft essentials.

Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

Responses:
1: It's a boot time scan. Any anti virus has a boot time scan option which is the most thorough option cause no process can read from a file that anotehr process is already locked onto and using. Hence boot time scans are able to catch items before a process locks onto them.

2: If you truly believe this then you are a fucking idiot and should stop posting any further opinions related to computers in any further threads....

3: Host file blocking is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of for a PC. It is only viable in a server/network solution area were your nodes are responsible for only taking to specific machines and all other connections are blocked. Start adding items to your hostfile and it will be a never ending game of adding/removing items just to do simple tasks. Plus unless you are running a network packet sniffer you would not know the address/ip for half of the connections you PC is making "Referring to updates and such that happen as background processes where you do not see them running."



Windows defender comes pre-installed on all new Windows releases. It should not be run all by itself as it's definitions library is small compared to even the smallest AV maker out there. On a side note it is better at defending against main OS attacks.

[Mikes2nd]

rofl... its no wonder you get viruses. Your clueless.

You either can't read or your clueless.. Its not hard to see why you get viruses..

I especially like the part where you think you know what a hosts file is.

this statement is HIGH-larious...

Start adding items to your hostfile and it will be a never ending game of adding/removing items just to do simple tasks.

I have never edited my hostfile nor have I ever had to play any game with it to do any tasks. Seriously I left you a link... Do you not know how to click on links and read?

I simply run the bat file to load the hosts file... Done and done.

[DrGonzo]

As stated before:

go away, troll.

You have no clue what you're talking about and your moronic comments proves it. Keep your erroneous statements to yourself and out of my thread.

My god we have another Steve68 here...... Might as well just add him to my block list now and save myself the later headache!!

[stealthII]

Funny that you mentioned CNET as a source, as I had a very similar experience. Except I was trying to download Irfanview and noticed the .exe didn't look correct. Going against my better judgement, I ran it but luckily, SEP blocked it. Ran it in my containment DMZ and sure enough, got some malware (can't remember what is was though). I'm in the network/security profession, so I absolutely agree that it can happen to the best of us and there's some nasty stuff out there. Any O/S or browser that's highly used or popular, is bound to be susceptible to this garbage.

So far, and I hate to say it, but for Windows, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Malwarebytes have been a very good combo for me. However, SEP is a resource HOG and I hate it for that! Nothing is perfect though. I ran Microsoft Essentials and MWB a while back when 3Si was hosting malware in their banners, and I got hit with that. Switched to SEP and went to 3Si again, and SEP stopped the install. So SEP got props for that.

[Mikes2nd]

As stated before:



You have no clue what you're talking about and your moronic comments proves it. Keep your erroneous statements to yourself and out of my thread.

My god we have another Steve68 here...... Might as well just add him to my block list now and save myself the later headache!!

k thanks man... Sorry you can't read