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>Somebody asks what's a good antivirus
>recommend malwarebytes
>pretend expert faggot comes in
>hurr malwarebytes is no antivirus use windows defender
>duurrr my pc is slow
>derrrp use ccleaner to make your system faster
>also install tuneup utilities it's the best!
Uninformed opinions general?
I'm thinking of starting an IT business where I'm on call and help small business's/individuals with computer problems and shit and the only thing holding me back is this
People are fucking autistic and will ALWAYS blame me for an issue if I was the last one to work on it.
Also is this a good idea or am I delusional
>>47072805
I work in a programming company and people blame us for shit that isn't even caused by the program
>>47072834
Of course that's how people react to things that don't work.
Use a proper antivirus like Avira and keep your computer clean and defragmented.
Holy shit I cant believe this stuff actually gets me work.
>hurr I'm using windows
>>47072841
Avira's UI is horribly bloat though. Similar to AVG.
Recommendations for a proper antivirus with an unbloated, unobtrusive UI?
> hurr i'm op
> durr
> burr
> gurr
>>47072862
Bitdefender
>>47072805
well thats the problem every IT-Guy has to deal with. Sadly uninformed people will allways search for guilty people since in their mind they didn't do anything wrong.
I recomend
>>AVg / Avira
>>CCLeaner
>>Windows Firewall
>>Mutch patience
Maleware Bytes isn't an anti-virus and should not be used as one.
>>47072901
This
It should compliment an antivirus
>>47072901
But using it in addition to something like Windows Defender will catch virtually all threats.
Not to mention that "viruses" aren't really a thing anymore.
>>47072915
> will catch virtually all threats
> "viruses" aren't really a thing anymore
>>47072805
>People are fucking autistic and will ALWAYS blame me for an issue if I was the last one to work on it.
unfortunately that's just how some people are like
>>47072951
>actually getting viruses
>not using Common Sense 2015
>>47072993
>I don't use a virus scanner.
>I haven't had a virus for years. Le Common Sense! XD
>run a scan on their computer - 3 threats detected
EVERY.
FUCKING.
TIME.
>>47072993
le ebin meme xD
>>47072966
I own a small notebook shop and for people like that, i always suggest them something made by Apple. It works wonder and the amount of costumers that bother me for free tech support declines considerably.
>>47072805
Charge them by the year. If the issue comes up just fix it again.
>>47073067
Different guy here, just asking out of pure curiosity
how much would you even charge a company if you were doing it by the year? It seems like it'd be hard to set a price if you don't know how much work you'll be doing for them
>>47073108
Sell it by package. You get one year worth of protection of up to "X" hours per month for $ "Z".
>>47072789
>derrrp use ccleaner to make your system faster
What's wrong with this advice? CCleaner does clean a lot of trash from your PC, doesn't it?
>>47073353
CCleaner does exactly what it says: clear temp files.
No more, no less.
It doesn't speed up anything most of the time, it's all placebo. All it does is free up disk space that will be taken up again soon anyway
>>47072805
>>47072834
>>47072966
People are rarely willing to take responsibility, especially for things they have poor understanding of.
>I'm just using it, not doing anything, how could I brake it?
>I didn't do nothing, not even touched it today!
>hurr IE is shit I know this cause the geeks at Gaia Online told me in middle school I use le sjwfox/chrome
>>47072789
i agree anon,
along with those i also recommend, wisereg and schedule sys defrag.
>>47073010
atleast someone gets it.
>>47073466
IE is dead, even Microsoft agrees.
They are rebranding since the name Internet Explorer only brings laughter.
>>47072805
Why is this preventing you?
If you bill by the hour, then you get big bucks for answering stupid questions.
I work for a company that offers IT like this to businesses, it seems very profitable.
I havent gotten trojan/malware/infections in so long that I almost feel my protection isnt working.
>>47073674
Same here. When a scan comes up with 0 hits I'm kind of paranoid.
>>47072805
In all fairness, in my experience, most IT people are lazy cunts who wont get off their fat asses and fix a problem.
And the amount of smug posts I've seen on /g/ regarding IT work only confirm this.
>>47073706
Buttmad office worker detected.
>>47072841
>Avirabook
No thanks, not anymore.
>>47073805
Nope, its from my experience in high school and university. You cunts just have contempt for anyone who isn't a useless fuck like yourselves.
>>47072789
Malwarebytes has good heuristics, isn't full of fake threats like "tracking cookies!!!!" and does what you tell it to do when you tell it to do it and nothing more.
>>47074056
Shit has scheduled scans that makes me agry by slowing the start up, even though I unchecked the "start MB at startup" shit.
Goddamn, how do I turn it off and stop being a retard?
>>47074083
don't get premium? All the scheduling stuff is a premium feature. that said if you win+r msconfig and go to startup you can disable it from starting with PC
>>47074095
Still a trail. Thanks for clarifying it.
>win+r msconfig
I feel dumber for not realising it sooner.
Cheers.
>>47074109
ah I just never bother taking the trial
>>47072901
The term antimalware is just a marketing buzzword, think that viruses are a kind of malware and that Antivirus dont target only viruses, they also go for adware, worms and other kinds of malware.
>>47072915
Nope, it wont catch all, actually, it wont catch nearly anything unless its a skiddie malware, and you are right on the fact that "viruses" arent a thing anymore if you are talking about all those old viruses from the late 90s, those didnt generate the owners revenue at all. Now they focus on banking trojan botnets, that gives them a lot of money. If the malware is properly crypted, your antivirus wont do shit.
>>47073010
Great post, first time I see a clever reply to a meme
I use nod32
>Been using MSE/Win Defender for six years, whatever the fuck I used before that and updated my CommonSense Pro+ every year
>MBAM, JRT and AdwCleaner once a month
>Haven't seen a single virus or malware for some 10 years
Stupid people will always find a reason to stay stupid.
This is what I cleaned from a coworkers home laptop a week ago.
>>47073010
This. For some reason the fucking idiots don't realize that shit can run without being noticed. The fact that they can't comprehend that just makes them a lost cause, however...
>>47073380
It frees up disk space, but if you defrag the disk afterwards you now have a faster system.
>>47074685
>>47073380
>Windows registry should be cleaned after uninstalling a program
>It doesn't
Sometimes I wished Microsoft would enforce this shit on developers, the same way that Apple does...
>>47074702
they probably did that already with store apps
>>47074744
I fucking hope so. 90% of the complains about Windows slowing down after months of usage, can be boiled down to developers not making sure their uninstaller also cleans out the registry.
>>47074744
>>47074943
Unfortunately, uninstalling a Metro app doesn't clean shit.
>>47073010
oh sod off, i havent used one since 7 came out. i got my process explorer with network traffic tab and msconfig to check autostart / services. what can i miss - a rootkit that 99% of virus scanners wont recognize and maybe some nsa tier firmware shittery, and both of those would generate traffic visible in pe.
every year or so i run malwarebytes and nod to check shit - best ive gotten with em were cookies and remnants of some autostarting cancer i killed as soon as it got installed with some pirated vidya.
>>47074416
>CommonSense Pro+
>>47075288
Simply ebin :^)
>>47072862
Avast
>>47072872
bad idea
>>47075481
worse idea
http://mincore.c9x.org/breaking_av_software.pdf
>>47075199
quality post friend. what you fail to understand is that PE wont protect you from crimeware kits that skids use (blackhole, citadel, etc) while a proper security architecture will (having AV, antimalware, and a HIDS) on the other hand is the only proper entry level solution.
>>47076177
>what you fail to understand is that PE wont protect you from crimeware kits that skids use (blackhole, citadel, etc) while a proper security architecture will (having AV, antimalware, and a HIDS) on the other hand is the only proper entry level solution.
looooooollll nice buzzwords
5 year with no AV, and haven't got any viruses. enjoy your bloat
>>47076177
>skids
>crimeware
jayses fucking christ these are words now?
do kindly fuck off and dont forget to stuff them buzzwords up your arse on the way.
>HIDS
>entry level solution
.....
icba to read up on the malware libs you mentioned, but somehow i fucking strongly doubt they include stealth shit like reporting false stats to os or even running as anything other than a unique process or service.
>>47073544
IE 11 is on the edge of being really good and usable as a main browser
It's nice the fact that it starts lightyears faster than any other browser.
>>47076177
ok, i actually read up on those kits. this funposter is pants on the head retarded.
So should I re-download AVG?
I had it for a while and it kept bothering me to upgrade and shit. I have Malwarebytes now
This seem like a good place to ask
At work, the laptop have to be "fucked" by different USB storage devices.
What's the best way to defend against that?
I've disabled autoplay from the group policy.
And scan with MWB.
What else can I do?
http://www.petri.com/disable_usb_disks_with_gpo.htm
>not using Kaspersky
git gud faggot
>>47077526
Fuck you you commie ruskie bastards, I'm not using anything made by you fucks.
Your lackeys exposed vital intelligence gathering information that could save lives from terrorist attacks.
You harbor that traitor pig Snowden.
Your still Communists in disguise, and I'm not falling for it.
We'll beat your asses to pulp, Reds, just you wait and see.
America is the new Roman Empire, but this time, it'll be eternal.
>>47077594
>>47076267
>and haven't got any viruses
But how would you know?
>>47077594
whats that noise? is that the barbarian dindus and feminazis singing heyeayea at the iron gates to your burger storage bunker?
>>47072805
I did under the table IT for 3 years while I was basically homeless. I mostly worked on college student computers with major malware problems, ransomware, fixed printers, designed riggs, etc.
If you do it cheap enough and get fairly decent results, ie get a computer crippled by malware functional again people usually are fine with it.
I charged $20 an hour and most problems took like three hours max and no one ever had a problem with my services
>>47072805
That is literally what I do for a living. Sometimes people get pissed and start blaming me for things I never worked on (you broke muh internet!) but all you have to do is explain to them that the actions you performed are entirely unrelated to the issue they're having. Sometimes if they calm down and behave I'll just help them out with it even if I wasn't originally called in to fix it.
I'm starting to think you cunts have brain damage.
I don't use Windows because i don't need anything Windows specific, but if I did i would use it the way it was intended to be used.
Set up all programs that are intended to be used daily. ie browsers with ublock or similar installed, office suites.etc
Set up effective and stringent firewall rules.
Automate windows update.
Create accounts lacking any elevated priviledges for anybody using the computer regularly INCLUDING MYSELF.
(YOU KNOW, how windows actually advises not to use root/administrator accounts for general use and has advised such since fucking xp)
Any time I need to install something I'd log in to the administrator account/enter password and suddenly I'm concentrating on what I'm doing and not blindly clicking through prompts like a bumbling retard.
Voila, 95% of bullshit can't be installed without your knowledge because it doesn't have elevated priviledges and user error is virtually eliminated.
There is a reason that GNU/Linux, OSX, *BSD all use the same strategy, because it works.
Genuinely, if you post a screenshot logged in as root in a thread full of freetards you get laughed at, but every windows user I know does it 24/7 and wonder why they have security issues.
The last thing i would ever do to anything i rely on is install unnecessary bullshit that sits in the backround and eating cpu cycles, phoning home and cataloging files all day.
>>47077660
it bothers me this picture isn't actually 1080p
>>47078054
great post my friend well typed!
>tfw I always use da admin accound
>>47078127
Funposting on a phone is hard. Seriously though, no elevated priviledge, no problem.
>>47072789
PC technician here. We actually use malwarebytes and CCleaner and a smattering of other tools at our place of work. Cleaner is basically a bunch of shortcuts to system clean operations in windows, so its good for that. The malwarebytes we use is a professional one.
>>47073706
>most IT people are lazy cunts who wont get off their fat asses and fix a problem.
The 'problem' is usually the user, which very much complicates the whole 'fixing' thing, unless you blow their fucking head off.
Tell me if you guys think this I'd stupid... I factory reset my PC every month so that I can fix issues with windows and know how to install drivers better? Anyone else do this I find it to be pretty fun any opinions?
>>47078264
I do it with GNU / Linux but I install a totally new OS
>on a website
>the tab it's in gets hijacked, but nothing else
>this happened 3 days ago and nothing has happened since
>everything says if it's not a consistent thing, it's not a big deal and that page itself is harmless
>my computer is clean
>still stressed
>>47078641
Install Ubuntu
:^)
>>47078763
Yes.
>>47073466
>cause the geeks at Gaia Online told me in middle school
>>47078126
>>47073010
>threats are just cookies in Chrome, or some leftover registry entry from a toolbar
>every fucking time
>>47072789
Malwarebytes isn't an anti-virus though... It is best used with an anti-virus...
I generally use it with MSE and Spybot
>>47073010
>3 keygens
>still using windows
Uninformed fucktards general.
>>47081253
>not playing bideo games
kek
>>47081253
le hipster programmer beta os master race
there's even a distro unironically named fedora
>Hey, can you fix my friends computer?
>check it out
>random ass "anti-virus" programs everywhere
>seconds later a fake Adobe Flash update window pops up, doesn't even have the right icon
>random pop ups from those programs
>10 minutes later and it's fixed
>didn't get to fuck her 8/10 daughter
I'm amazed that these people are functioning in today's society.
>>47072805
Do it. They might blame you at first, but then put the blame right back on them (nicely). In my example, she said some IT guy came over, but that shithead fucked up just as bad and I explained that to her. She said okay and went back to during her thing.
>>47075481
Avast has these shitty popups advertising their products and events nowadays and you can't disable them without paying.
>>47072805
>People are fucking autistic and will ALWAYS blame me for an issue if I was the last one to work on it.
Once a 35~40 year old mother brought me a cheap looking lenovo laptop and told me to fix it because it couldn't start and a black screen with white letters came up every time she tried to boot it up.
I could see that he dropped it and i assumed the HDD was damaged and it indeed was, i couldn't save anything, i switched it for a 500GB one and installed windows.
When i told her i changed the HDD she almost wanted to kill me right there, specially when i told her i couldn't rescue nothing and that it would be $80.
>>47083459
>angry about hard drive failure
>no backups
it's obviously your fault idiot, you should have sacrificed your first born to the data gods
>>47072789
>Hi how can I help you?
>my computer is having this problem where it does this thing and it's weird
>...ok what exactly is it doing
>well I try doing this and it's not working like it used to
>ok do you remember anything, like what the error message said, or anything? What program you were in, or what you were doing?
>no I don't remember
THEN WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>47081174
>detects .dll's you used to crack the program
This always scares me
>>47072789
Use Comodo Internet Security, its free and enterprise grade.
>>47072789
>not using mbam with mse
