Hey folks, the previous thread "what album are you listening to" was closed, but I felt like starting one up again with a few brief rule changes so it won't happen again. You can share one song or one album per post with a video or direct playable other share, unlike before where sometimes people would post like 10 videos in one post. If the video thumbnail image has nudity, or any kind of graphic material such as drug use, just find another video with a different image. Anyways, let me...
Rising threads
I initially thought Cloudflare Gateway was for businesses. However, I came across a review mentioning its use for parental control and its solid free plan. I'm currently testing DNS-based services for parental control, such as NextDNS and AdGuardDNS. Comparing them to Cloudflare Gateway, I find it far superior, even with its free plan. It offers advanced features, but for parental control, I focused on testing Zero Trust > Gateway > DNS Locations and Firewall Policies. I created policies for...
Hi guys, what are you watching right now? A movie, a series, a documentary...etc.
Happy New Year from Hawk Eye Analysis.
It's time to release the portable executable for Defender Hardening Console.
It is an early release so frequent updates (and probably some bugs) are expected for the next month or so.
Note: there will be no digital signature until the official release of Hawk Eye Analysis (or Antivirus) Tool (HEAT) which is expected most likely on the 3rd of March.
Note 2: Some of the features that Defender Hardening Console offers will be managed automatically by...
Your browser is no longer just a window to the internet — it’s your password vault, your online bank teller, your shopping assistant, and your security guard all in one.
In 2026, choosing the “right” browser has become almost as heated as the Windows vs. macOS debates of the past.
Some people stick with what’s fast and familiar, others demand maximum privacy, and some just use whatever comes pre-installed.
But here’s the real question: Which browser actually deserves your trust?
🔎 The...
End-of-Life announcement for Norton Power Eraser
Hey guys,
I'll start this thread so that you may report if you encounter any errors while using this site.
When reporting an error please try to be as specific as possible, and if possible, please add a screenshot.
Error code, the time when it happened, what page were you viewing and other similar details are always helpful.
I didn't find something relevant on MT about search engines, so I thought about creating this poll to ask about member's favorite search engine.
AVG vs Symantec Antivirus: This One Cleaned Better
https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-edge-stable-chromium-now-available-for-download-527924.shtml
Osprey is a browser extension that protects you from malicious websites.
Made by @Foulest and discovered by @Jan Willy
Links:
GitHub • Google Chrome • Microsoft Edge • Firefox • Privacy Policy • Wiki (FAQs) • Discord
MalwareTips discussion on this extension started here:
https://malwaretips.com/threads/updated-29-12-2018-browser-extension-comparison-malwares-and-phishings.80915/page-85#post-1122408
Wilders Security Forums discussion...
Hello guys. This is my security config for my PC. I mainly use it to play games. Any suggestions are welcome.
Hello :)
A little idea I had this morning...
A lot of people watch my videos, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Seeing that you like it motivates me to continue making them.
You should know that I spend about 2 to 3 hours per video, in preparation, sampling, testing, editing and uploading! 😁
But, it can happen that I frustrate some members, because their requests they made to me, I can't find them anymore.....
It's not my fault unfortunately, hence this topic.
So, throw the...
https://www.av-test.org/en/news/atp-test-how-easily-windows-can-be-tricked-by-malware/
Just curious to know what you guys are browsing. Let it be anything that interests you, or you think it might be interesting to others. It could be any article or a website or a video or a comic strip, practically anything and everything. :)
eScan confirms update server breached to push malicious update
Hello guys and welcome to this McAfee review.
Before we get to the McAfee details (which will be discussed in great depth), I would like to discuss the upgrade to my practices across this forum.
This forum is not for promotion of favouritism, it is designed mainly as a technical and objective forum.
In the light of all that, I have created Trident Review Framework (TRF) 1.0 with several key highlights:
Software is reviewed objectively based on capabilities and performance.
Wherever threat...
The analysis and play with McAfee continues. Today's work reveals that McAfee is using memory content scan: it is capable of scanning the underlying process code, as opposed to just getting the image path and scanning it on disk.
Some of these threats were taken from real attacks and copy-pasted in PowerShell. Others have extremely low VT detection.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4f0f23e9db6033501021e83e943b69706a8d0f82dfcb5c989c15e5b4bc77cfd7
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It’s 2026, and the security game feels different.
The classic “downloaded a virus” story still exists, but a lot of the real damage now happens via the browser: sketchy extensions, perfect-looking phishing pages, fake updates, and info-stealers that go after saved passwords and cookies. Recent reports have shown millions of users impacted by malicious extensions across Chrome and Edge, and Google has removed large batches of malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store. (Malwarebytes)...
Hi folks,
Happy to be back to Windows after year of struggle on "the best" macOS.
Then, the question is it's time to refresh my AV positioning. I used mainly Bitdefender and Avira in the last 10 years. I need something to cover my back on my Zephyrus G16 and as I see Bitdefender is not a bulletproof choice anymore.
I am advanced user, not afraid of anything.
Currently, the choice is between:
Bitdefender Total
Emsisoft
Trend Micro
ZoneAlarm Extreme
ESET
Norton 360
or again even...
Hello,
I have got a new Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 3 and I use it for teaching.
I am keeping the config as simple as possible.
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/an-even-better-microsoft-account-bypass-for-windows-11-has-already-been-discovered
This is not a commercial version; it's my own version that I'm sharing with you. The POLAR ANTIVIRUS program was created using ai and some modifications I made to it.
Features at a Glance
⚡ Real-Time Protection: Background monitoring of every process and file creation to stop threats before they act. Without an Ikarus engine
🌐 Web Shield: Advanced URL filtering and safe browsing powered by a custom proxy to block malicious websites.
🔥 Smart Firewall: Monitor and control network traffic with...
Avast began in 1988, 38 years ago, as a small antivirus research project between two young computer scientists in Czechoslovakia. Since then, it's evolved into one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, eventually lending its own technological prowess and innovations to a name as famous as Norton.
One of the greatest strategic decisions in the history of the company proved to be the freemium model that started with the launch of Avast Free Antivirus in 2001. By the late 2000s...
New year. Same simple setup.
Edge flags:
Exploit protection (thanks to @Umbra). These haven't broken anything yet, e.g. extensions crashing.
- for Brave, Edge and Firefox:
Block low integrity images - ON
Block remote images - ON
Block untrusted fonts - ON
Control flow guard (CFG) - ON
Data execution prevention (DEP) - ON + Enable thunk emulation - CHECKED
Disable extension points - ON
Force randomization for images (Mandatory ASLR) - ON + Do not allow stripped images - CHECKED...
Post updated in December 2025.
The current version 7.0.1.1 can be downloaded from:
GitHub:
https://github.com/AndyFul/Hard_Configurator/raw/refs/heads/master/Hard_Configurator_setup_7.0.1.1.exe
Softpedia:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Hard-Configurator.shtml
Support for Windows 11 22H2 and later versions was added in version 6.1.1.1.
Developer website:
https://github.com/AndyFul/Hard_Configurator
Hard_Configurator was created after a discussion on the following...
My planned security setup to continue through 2022. I did a lot of back and forth between this and Comodo Internet Security the past year but determined to stick with this option. If Comodo comes out with a product update I may revisit it .
Controlled Folder Access is still something I'm not solidly using but I think I just need to understand it a bit better or whitelist what I need to. I also stopped running WD in it's own sandbox since Tamper Protection became a MD feature and it slowed...
Hello everyone. Joined the forum after a long time. But even though I was gone, I used to visit this website regularly. Good to see some of my old buddies still here @SeriousHoax @Gandalf_The_Grey @silversurfer @RoboMan . I used to go by the username Wraith and used to test out ESET IS in the malware testers group. The COVID situation had disrupted my life as I lost many of my beloved ones. But now the situation is back to normal and like before I hope I can participate in the discussions...
GitHub: GitHub - uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home: All uBlock Origin Lite-related issues (including filter-related ones) go here
Description
uBO Lite (uBOL), a permission-less MV3 API-based content blocker.
uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources...
Got gift from random person and it seems its not staff account at all. but when i enter site habbouusivuosi.com it gives me site like this:
You can pretty much type any account name there, that is registered on habbo and everyone is rewarded for first reward ( costs like 45 eur)
After this it asks me to connect my metamask to receive gift.
My question is : is it possible to steal from crypto wallet throught browser, without installing third party app or extension?
this is pretty...
This was taken in Saxon Switzerland National Park in Germany
Google Chrome 87.0.4280.66 Stable Channel Update for Desktop:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html
New features like Chrome Actions demonstrated here:
https://blog.google/products/chrome/faster-chrome/
https://www.defenderui.com/
When Windows 11 was leaked, I was hoping we would see a usable Defender UI, but unfortunately it had not changed a bit. Defender is great under the hood but it is incredibly frustrating to use. It is also certainly not bulletproof and Redmond’s idea of zero trust is much different from mine, but at least it is something to work from.
So I decided to build a fully functional Defender UI. Here are some preliminary screenshots, a beta version will be really in a...
Have a look at this statistics below, it makes no sense to add a anti-trackers list of say more than 3500 entries of Peter Low's blocklist.. Reasons are
1. With those 3500 entries, you probably have the TOP 1000 covered wherever you live.
2. This means that ones you don't block only have a very limited outreach (chances you are tracked over multiple websites by local trackers is low)
3. In my case (living in the Netherlands), only one company would have tracked me on 3 websites (I usually...
K7 is an Indian company, fairly well known in its home country, much less so internationally, although it is beginning to make a name for itself.
For several years now, it has been offering its flagship product: K7
In this 2025 version, there are very few major changes, but K7 puts its MAT AI to the fore.
The product is not configured, as the publisher wants it to be accessible to all, which is what I do.
Let's see what it can do.
Interface :
The interface is very simple, with a strong...
Version 122.0.2365.99 (Android and iOS): March 18, 2024
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-relnote-mobile-stable-channel#version-1220236599-android-and-ios-march-18-2024
Followed this thread to make linux look like Windows (with some small changes because I am not using Cinnamon but Xfce desktop and can change Linux Mint logo to Windows :-) ) https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2635179&hilit=Windows#p2635179
Post updated in December 2025
ConfigureDefender utility for Windows 10/11.
New stable version 4.1.0.0 is available on the developer website (updated in February 2025):
https://github.com/AndyFul/ConfigureDefender
Softpedia:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/System-Enhancements/ConfigureDefender.shtml
WinGet (ver. 4.0.1.1)
https://winstall.app/apps/AndyFul.ConfigureDefender
The ConfigureDefender utility is a GUI application for viewing and configuring important...
What do web browsers really do in the background? Privacy advocates have a keen interest in this question. Promising users better privacy and freedom from ads, Brave has made quite a name for themselves with over 100 million monthly active users.
Multiple privacy researchers and engineers have overseen Brave's increasingly active open-source development, and Brave's feature set reflects that. Brave's own researchers continually publish academic papers (like these) in several prestigious...
https://chipp.in/software/windows/the-road-to-recovery-how-microsoft-plans-to-make-you-love-windows-again/
https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/ccleaner-v5-86-9258?cc-noredirect=
CCleaner - Download Builds:
https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds
It's November 11, 2025, and for Windows home users on a budget, free AV is more crucial than ever with AI-phishing up 442% (IRONSCALES Q3 2025) and ransomware recovery costs averaging $1.5M (Sophos 2025). Microsoft Defender is the silent default, but third-party free tools bring web shields, extras, or on-demand cleanup.
Note: True "antivirus" means real-time protection; on-demand scanners like Malwarebytes, TotalAV Free, or AdwCleaner are great boosters but not full AVs – pair them with...
Hey Guys!
CyberLock 8.0 is coming soon and here is an early beta version. There were massive changes under the hood, mainly streamlining and moving code from the GUI to the service so that CyberLock is more enterprise like. There will probably be a few small bugs, but so far it is running extremely fast and smooth. But if you guys find anything that needs to be fixed, please let me know!
Aesthetically this version looks about the same as before, but that will be changing sometime in the...
https://www.varonis.com/blog/stanley-malware-kit
https://www.neowin.net/news/this-windows-11-feature-no-longer-requires-clean-installing-the-system-to-activate-it/
Homepage: Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave Browser
Latest release notes: Brave Release Notes | Brave Browser
Is using it and Iridium now.
Ungoogled Chromium is actually a Chromium spin-off that offers you all of Chromium's capabilities but removes integration with Google services, thus providing you with a browser that is highly transparent in terms of privacy and control.
Even if you don't plan on associating a Google account with your Chromium browser, the browser still shelters a number of background services or features that communicate with Google servers. This program plans on reducing the...
Version 2412: January 14
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/current-channel#version-2412-january-14
https://www.financialexpress.com/market/3-reasons-why-tech-stocks-are-falling-today-nifty-it-index-cracks-6-infosys-coforge-plunge-7-4130572/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/explained-what-is-anthropics-ai-tool-that-wiped-285-billion-off-software-stocks-in-a-single-day/articleshow/127892310.cms
uBO Lite (uBOL) is an efficient content blocker based on the MV3 API.........
GitHub - uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home: uBO Lite home (MV3)
Post updated.
I created this video as a supplement to the discussion in another thread:
https://malwaretips.com/threads/comodo-firewall-bypassing-a-bypass.133411/
The original bypass and Comodo's killer do not work if Core isolation is properly configured on Windows.
Also, both methods will not work when the rating of "Kaspersky Lab" is set to Unrecognized in the File Rating >> Vendor List.
