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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1072322" data-attributes="member: 96560"><p>However running the ReviOS application requires you to be online, while it checks for new version and does configuration. So you will be vulnerable for 10-15 mins while it runs. Although you will still have Windows Defender Firewall running at that time, there are hackers who know how to bypass the firewall in it's default configuration. ( everybody has the same default fw configuration, so it pays to find flaws with that config ) And it is particularly vulnerable because ReviOS requires you to disable Windows Defender during install because Defender will complain about ReviOS making 'dangerous' modifications to the OS.</p><p></p><p>I have now switched to Tiny11. (<a href="https://archive.org/details/tiny-11-NTDEV" target="_blank">Tiny11 : NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive</a> ) It does require re-installation of OS using their provided ISO ( burned to USB stick using Rufus) . But you can accomplish a secure offline installation, then install whatever security tools and then make a offline-state-secure-drive-image. (I use Macrium Reflect) This will then be your 'golden image'. And if you run into trouble at any time, you can restore from this golden image knowing that you will be clean. And also you can use this golden image on another machine, because upon finishing re-image and booting up, Windows will reconfigure itself to match the destination machine. All you then have to do is rename the PC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1072322, member: 96560"] However running the ReviOS application requires you to be online, while it checks for new version and does configuration. So you will be vulnerable for 10-15 mins while it runs. Although you will still have Windows Defender Firewall running at that time, there are hackers who know how to bypass the firewall in it's default configuration. ( everybody has the same default fw configuration, so it pays to find flaws with that config ) And it is particularly vulnerable because ReviOS requires you to disable Windows Defender during install because Defender will complain about ReviOS making 'dangerous' modifications to the OS. I have now switched to Tiny11. ([URL='https://archive.org/details/tiny-11-NTDEV']Tiny11 : NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive[/URL] ) It does require re-installation of OS using their provided ISO ( burned to USB stick using Rufus) . But you can accomplish a secure offline installation, then install whatever security tools and then make a offline-state-secure-drive-image. (I use Macrium Reflect) This will then be your 'golden image'. And if you run into trouble at any time, you can restore from this golden image knowing that you will be clean. And also you can use this golden image on another machine, because upon finishing re-image and booting up, Windows will reconfigure itself to match the destination machine. All you then have to do is rename the PC. [/QUOTE]
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