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<blockquote data-quote="Practical Response" data-source="post: 1081828" data-attributes="member: 109138"><p>Personal insults? Because I stated you are confused?</p><p></p><p>Maybe its because I have stated that good habits will help users more then layered security will any day, but never once did I mention only using good habits without security. This all started because you claimed that layered security of the enthusiast nature is the only way to stay safe now days and even then I'm not convinced you believe that, as you find more ways to tell users that nothing they can do will ever stop them from being infected.</p><p></p><p>Now that I have that out of the way, as this really is getting tiresome, with the same ole repeated nonsense.</p><p></p><p>How does one go about defending against drive by downloads or exploit kits via websites he asks.</p><p></p><p>Well to start, you can enable your browsers "click to play" option to avoid plugin-required content from automatic installation. You need to take steps as such "again good habits" to help reduce the risk, among these are making sure your browser and operating systems are always up to date, patched from exploitable vulnerabilities, same with whatever security solution you are using, making sure its signatures ect are up to date, pay attention to the address/URL for legitimacy, remove unnecessary 3rd party applications from your system to lesson the attack surface and bugs, you know what likes bugs and vulnerabilities, you guessed it, drive by downloads. Use traffic filtering such as DNS. Refrain from storing passwords in your browser and keeping personal information on your system "again with the its not convenient but will save you a headache" that not even any security platform can guarantee "don't believe me, go ask someone that had security, didn't bother with good habits, got hit by ransomware and now wishes they can find a way to unencrypt all their important personal items.</p><p></p><p>So bottom line is, nothing is fool proof, although using habits along with manageable security will carry a user a long way. Just using layerd security falls into, more vulnerability, misconfiguration, and not using habits with it, well again, go ask the user with encrypted files.</p><p></p><p>I have literally repeated mostly the same thing in at least 5 or more posts in this thread, so if I did not articulate it well enough this time I apologize, but at this point I digress.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Practical Response, post: 1081828, member: 109138"] Personal insults? Because I stated you are confused? Maybe its because I have stated that good habits will help users more then layered security will any day, but never once did I mention only using good habits without security. This all started because you claimed that layered security of the enthusiast nature is the only way to stay safe now days and even then I'm not convinced you believe that, as you find more ways to tell users that nothing they can do will ever stop them from being infected. Now that I have that out of the way, as this really is getting tiresome, with the same ole repeated nonsense. How does one go about defending against drive by downloads or exploit kits via websites he asks. Well to start, you can enable your browsers "click to play" option to avoid plugin-required content from automatic installation. You need to take steps as such "again good habits" to help reduce the risk, among these are making sure your browser and operating systems are always up to date, patched from exploitable vulnerabilities, same with whatever security solution you are using, making sure its signatures ect are up to date, pay attention to the address/URL for legitimacy, remove unnecessary 3rd party applications from your system to lesson the attack surface and bugs, you know what likes bugs and vulnerabilities, you guessed it, drive by downloads. Use traffic filtering such as DNS. Refrain from storing passwords in your browser and keeping personal information on your system "again with the its not convenient but will save you a headache" that not even any security platform can guarantee "don't believe me, go ask someone that had security, didn't bother with good habits, got hit by ransomware and now wishes they can find a way to unencrypt all their important personal items. So bottom line is, nothing is fool proof, although using habits along with manageable security will carry a user a long way. Just using layerd security falls into, more vulnerability, misconfiguration, and not using habits with it, well again, go ask the user with encrypted files. I have literally repeated mostly the same thing in at least 5 or more posts in this thread, so if I did not articulate it well enough this time I apologize, but at this point I digress. [/QUOTE]
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