How Paranoid Are You ?

[Quassar]

Hmm knowlage/experience is not all paranoid..

Everyone who make some kind test or read exacly shoold know how sometimes AV can be usless againt viruses..
And ofering solid HIPS or Sandbox is nor paranoid for me is knowlage and experiance
Causei i know can use other software which meaby work diferent but can give me more options/power to monitor and cover my system.

Or another situation from 2nd side peoples use defaul setting system.... thiere is nothing here like default syste setting is just not configured system becasue user dont have experiance knolwage. How to setup normal account and set limit in GPO and other function

in linux this situation not exist casue during install, its require you for make 2 acc, root and local acc with passords.

Paranoid can be for peoples which use 2-3 cloud solution backup and yet 3 backup on 3 diferent disk^^ or using 2 exe-blocker with behavior blocker on foward

 

[509322]

No need to be paranoid. Basic privacy software/settings/VPN/extensions should be enough. I feel like I don't need a tin foil hat everyday.

~LDogg

VPN for online financial transactions using unsecured network makes perfect sense. Using VPN on home system, behind NAT router, for day-to-day surfing is overkill. In fact, it can break some home router protections.

 

[509322]

Malwarebytes blocked a malicious website, so I clean-installed Windows.

You forgot your freak-out Froggy vid... it would have been perfect here.

 

[509322]

Just watch this thread... some people will get agitated and obviously upset.

Don't tell me that people don't get or are not way too emotionally involved in this stuff for their own good.

There is measured proactive - that makes sense, within norms. And then there is overkill. Most "overkill" isn't "just in case." It is done because of fear. Fear of the unknown. And that is emotionally-driven, which makes it paranoia.

Rational steps taken to the extreme becomes paranoia. It's the totality that makes it irrational, and therefore paranoia.

 

[Andy Ful]

If someone wants to break in to your home bad enough they are going to find away in, likewise, if someone wants on your system bad enough they will find a way in. The challenge is making it as difficult as possible for them to get in while making it was easy as possible for you to come an go as you please.

That is neither fear or paranoia it is simply act self preservation.

That could be true for many people.
But, I can feel the big difference. I can spend 10 times more hours on thinking &researching & testing the computer security topics than making my home more secure. Furthermore, I can think a lot about how the computers of other people could be more secure and do not think at all, about how to make their houses more secured. So, it is not a paranoia, but maybe a hobby + some kind of addiction?

 

[ichito]

Voted "Confident..." but I think poll questions are a bit "twisted".

 

[Andy Ful]

Voted "Confident..." but I think poll questions are a bit "twisted".

There are not the poll questions that can fit to everybody. I think that many people here are slightly twisted in a positive way.

 

[509322]

Voted "Confident..." but I think poll questions are a bit "twisted".

I know your security configuration and I know how you use it. You are a classic "Confident" user.

The poll has no tricks. The question and the answers are simple and straight-forward. The problem are the people who are assigning their own meaning to the word "paranoid." Paranoid does not mean attentive and proactive. No form of paranoia is healthy.

 

[509322]

There are not the poll questions that can fit to everybody. I think that many people here are slightly twisted in a positive way.

Addicted and twisted. I don't know how those could ever be considered positive. Like the guy who codes for 10 days straight until we physically drag him away from the workstation because he stinks. :X3:

 

[Quassar]

There are not the poll questions that can fit to everybody. I think that many people here are slightly twisted in a positive way.

Yea for somes user window defender is far enought solid software with firewall ^^ there is no need to install other soft...
While in smb in pools use windows defense setting its marked as risk ^^

 

[LDogg]

VPN for online financial transactions using unsecured network makes perfect sense. Using VPN on home system, behind NAT router, for day-to-day surfing is overkill. In fact, it can break some home router protections.

Totally agree. I think that was the sentiment I was trying to go, but my lack of explanation skills isn't top tier. Everything else is fine.

~LDogg

 

[oldschool]

So we have two different definitions of paranoid. The original meaning, which is related to mental illness, and the adapted meaning, which means alert and diligent.

I think this old joke says it all: "You can be paranoid and people may still be watching you!"

 

[LDogg]

I think this old joke says it all: "You can be paranoid and people may still be watching you!"

Sounds like an oxymoron @oldschool

~LDogg

 

[oldschool]

Sounds like an oxymoron @oldschool

~LDogg

Yes it sounds that way, but the reality is that usually, only the truth is funny!

 

[Quassar]

What if rly smb stalking him ^^

 

[LDogg]

Yes it sounds that way, but the reality is that usually, only the truth is funny!

Very true! Truth sets us free.

~LDogg

 

[Kuttz]

Both Confident and Paranoid is a wrong state of mind.

 

[Andy Ful]

I did a little research. The 'Paranoia' ('Paranoid') can be sometimes thought as 'Delusional disorder' ('Paranoid disorder'), especially in non-English languages. For example, in the Polish language, 'Paranoja' have the meaning of 'Delusional disorder'. In the English language the 'Paranoia' is usually heavily influenced by anxiety or fear. But, the 'Delusional disorder' may be influenced by something else.
I think that many people on MalwareTips uses the word 'Paranoid' as some kind of 'Delusional disorder'.
The experts also agree that "personal beliefs should be evaluated with great respect to cultural and religious differences, since some cultures have widely accepted beliefs that may be considered delusional in other cultures."

 

[Andy Ful]

Addicted and twisted. I don't know how those could ever be considered positive. Like the guy who codes for 10 days straight until we physically drag him away from the workstation because he stinks. :X3:

It is not healthy at all. I can feel it in my back.:notworthy:
But I am happy, that I am not on the Himalaya forum.

 

[Andy Ful]

Both Confident and Paranoid is a wrong state of mind.

What is wrong with being confident that I am paranoid?

Edit.
Wrong is not a proper word. I rather prefer 'not common'.