Guide 5 easy tips to avoid infections

[orlygul]

Thanks for the tips.
I'v already done a lot of what you'v mentioned. From my experience, the best way to avoid problems is education combined with all of the above.
Sadly, there is nothing like 100% solution to this.

 

[Deleted Member 333v73x]

@Huracan Good advice

 

[Ink]

Out of curiosity what if we run them in sandbox and then delete? Is that should prevent infection?

Piracy.

 

[DardiM]

Only trust the Keygens and cracks you have personally made (for education purpose only ) to be sure there is no virus/malware inside

 

[jamescv7]

RAT, Keygens and other form of bypass tool should care them intensively since the behavior will definitely link to malicious because of highest privilege that can execute in the system.

 

[Quent]

Thank you so much for these hopeful tips. I believe that when it comes to Internet security better to take all necessaries steps. No one wants to be cheated and have personal information stealing.

 

[JHomes]

Here's another one: Back up your data.

What pisses me off more than anything are these people with no backups then they get an infection, then they think that there's got to be some ultimate solution, like you press one button and all of your files are restored, issue is gone. People, this doesn't exist!

If you're not running a regular backup, start. Great thing (in my eyes) is that you can go different routes. Say you want to back up your computer and you want it not stored locally, you can run a disk imager like Acronis True Image and put it somewhere like external HDD, cloud storage, USB, etc. If you don't want to pay for that kind of stuff, or you just want something fast, you can go with a snapshot tool like Ax64, Comodo Time Machine, or Rollback Rx. Or you can do both! It's a free world people, you have options.

Either way, come up with a plan, so the next time you get an infection because you downloaded cracked photoshop, instead of looking aimlessly around for a solution, you just restore and you're good to go. If you back up, think of all the time you save having to write a post on forums like this. You could do so much with that extra time

/endrant/

 

[shmu26]

On Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit,
browsing with Mozilla Firefox, is there any reason to do this?
I have IE and Chrome on my computer.
Do the two browsers get infected easily?

chrome is most secure
firefox is okay
IE is not so secure
all browsers need to be kept updated

 

[shmu26]

I'm not too experienced with keygens etc...i've always been told that lots are false positives and are harmless is this true at all?

virus total will often tell you if it is just a hacking tool, or a real threat, if you read the details.

 

[davidp]

Such simple advice, but yet so hard to get right.

 

[shmu26]

I'm not too experienced with keygens etc...i've always been told that lots are false positives and are harmless is this true at all?

if you want to find keygens that are malware, let's say for testing purposes, so don't go to thepiratebay and search for your favorite pirated program. Instead, just google it, and download it directly from an unknown site.
And even if you do go to thepiratebay, don't choose a torrent from a known uploader, which has user comments indicating it is clean. Choose the torrent from an unknown uploader, and it was just uploaded today, and it already has much more seeders than all the clean torrents put together. Obviously, someone is trying to scam the system...
That's how to find the malware. And the reverse holds true if you want to find clean keygens, for instance, if you need to study it for research purposes.

 

[Nich11]

I get the kind of pop which you showed. sometimes I accidently click yes. Thankfully, they were are advertising pop ups.

 

[shmu26]

I get the kind of pop which you showed. sometimes I accidently click yes. Thankfully, they were are advertising pop ups.

advertising pop ups that look like a message from your computer are potentially dangerous. they are trying to trick you into clicking. that's a bad sign.

 

[jamescv7]

Luckily on Android, those popups that may contain malicious may not be infected unless you will install upon permission; compare to Windows where possible drive by dwnload will occur.

So that is why always be vigilant and check your defenses regularly.

 

[LabZero]

I get the kind of pop which you showed. sometimes I accidently click yes. Thankfully, they were are advertising pop ups.

Just using Sandboxie and you are reasonably safe.

 

[beetal2015]

Sandboxie is great but it is expensive and I don't have it.

 

[LabZero]

Sandboxie is great but it is expensive and I don't have it.

Sandboxie is freeware since the unregistered version allows you to get almost all the features found in the full version. Performing a paid registration you get a key that allows you to remove the nag screen after 30 days and use more of the sandbox at the same time and other functions.

 

[exCode]

This is a good thread, thanks guys!

 

[StopMalware!]

Thank You!!!

 

[KeZa]

I download a lot and I have come across a lot of hacks, keygens and so on and I can tell you that I have saved a lot of money. A couple of 1000$ surly because I do not pay for software and I have +400progs on my pc. Not all to buy but a lot and if you know how to do it than it can do no harm. The first rule is after downloaded a torrent, newsgroup,... with a hack or so on, is to check it on Virustotal with Winja. Get you no red alerts than it's fine most of the time and get you a few and the biggest AV's like Kasper and BitDefender give it green, then it is most of the time a false positive and you can go on but get you a lot of red and these AV give it red then it is 90% of the time garbage. Let say it's is more green and these AV's give it a green light, than you can check it on a backup drive with sandboxie and there you get you key and you copy that key in your source OS and voila you have safed safely money. I do this for more than 10 years know and no probs here on the good old Xp. And if there was a little red but the good AV's give it green light you can always put it in a zip-folder with a password for extra security.