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Is AV software necessary on Windows in 2024?
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I'm inclined to say no, because there was a case where the license was deactivated if you changed parts of the PC (like the motherboard).
Depends on how good the company/devs handle it: Good way e.g. Adguard or shitty e.g. Mailbird. Afaik CL should be able to install at another pc (since I did it more than one). But I just asked the dev for you to be sure @danb
@Shadowra Did the person followed the instruction from the cyberlock faq how to move a license?
Some company's just let you deactivate your license (from within the account that you created) on their website (e.g. Adguard). You then can use it on another pc without any need to beg support for help. At least it was that way when I needed to do it month ago.
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On CyberLock you can easily deactivate the license via your account panel.
On the other hand, I had an experience a long time ago with Bitdefender where the license was no longer usable because I had changed the PC's motherboard...
Since neither the op nor you wrote the av name at all I just assumed you both meant CL. And in case you didn't I started with the disclaimer: "Depends on how good the company/devs handle it."
I remember reading about the bitdefender way (I hate such ways to handle lifetime licenses).
Some company s just handle lifetime licenses in a very customer friendly way and other try to f... you over as soon as possible.
I remember reading about the bitdefender way (I hate such ways to handle lifetime licenses).
Some company s just handle lifetime licenses in a very customer friendly way and other try to f... you over as soon as possible.
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- Mar 10, 2023
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Yes, PDF seems to be still a pain for a lot of users. I recently watched two clips related to PDF files and double-extensions.
I've added some additions under the first video, but my comment was deleted for some reason. I guess I will block THE PC Security Channel in my YT recommendations from now on because of the censorship.
What I've added there was this: "In addition to make the OS show the file extensions and to check the file to the VT, one can check if the file contains JS (for PDF files) - there are tools for that at GitHub like this one - GitHub - filipi86/MalwareAnalysis-in-PDF: Malicious PDF files recently considered one of the most dangerous threats to the system security. The flexible code-bearing vector of the PDF format enables to attacker to carry out malicious code on the computer system for user exploitation. and to disable the JS in the PDF Viewers as well (for FF - pdfjs.enableScripting), for Edge - well it's disabled there, for Adobe and Foxit and the others there are settings for that as well but since I don't use them anymore I forgot where they were located, but they should be easy to find. I prefer to use Comodo Auto-Containment and Kaspersky Free (because of the System Watcher which can roll back the changes introduced by the ransomware), and off course a system image is recommended as well. I use Macrium Reflect for that purpose (and AOMEI and Hasleo are covering its back)."
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You're welcome!Very informative and helpful video, thanks for the post
They are both good indeed, but what grabbed my attention was the second one (the Linux part). Didn't aware of that possible attack vector with the archives.
I am wondering if method 1 described in the second video is related to this news:
Security News - GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack
GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency from developer devices, researchers said. The malicious repositories are clones of legitimate...
malwaretips.com
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thanks for this info, as I'm thinking about a new motherboard this year. Off the top of my head, a user is buying the lifetime license, so the license should run with the user, I think the AV vendors have ways to tell if user exceeds his paid license pc count...
- Apr 1, 2019
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Statistically insignificant for two reasons. A) That's a small list, B) More PCs use MS Defender than anything else by a lot. So it is highly likely that the most victims of any attack that doesn't have sigs yet would come from Defender. I'm not 'defending' Defender here. Just pointing out that all that screenshot suggests is anecdotal at best.
- Feb 7, 2023
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It’s just one single piece of evidence, looking online or talking to experts, one can get a lot more. Defender has always been and will always be average solution, nothing to wow on.
- Mar 29, 2018
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Keep it simple, stay safe and not paranoid. MS Defender is enough for me.
- Jan 27, 2018
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I would say Defender is top 10, probably 4 to 5 range if a list was made. Combine it with Configure Defender and probably jumps significantly. Now if you want an AV with tons of bloat ( password manager, vpn, etc.) then it isn't for you.
Very interesting, although not surprising how many Webroot devices have been compromised especially since the user base must be low.
Should I be worried about Norton though? I know the user base for this product is high in the likes of the US, UK and Australia, so statistically one would expect infections.
- Jan 27, 2018
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The more people that use a product the more infections it will have. I wouldn't base my choice of an AV on this.
- Jun 22, 2020
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personal opinion: in real life, Windows Defender will never be able to protect you from malware.
Too basic independent antiivirus to configure and very easy to bypass, even with malware that gets into the antivirus exclusions.
Terrible antivirus against pirated software. Detects Empress software as malware.
It is one of the "antiviruses" that consumes the most resources.
Greeting.
Too basic independent antiivirus to configure and very easy to bypass, even with malware that gets into the antivirus exclusions.
Terrible antivirus against pirated software. Detects Empress software as malware
.It is one of the "antiviruses" that consumes the most resources.
Greeting.
- Apr 1, 2019
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If you are pirating software there’s a good chance no antivirus is going to save you eventually. I wouldn’t recommend Defender for those who do. But, I also wouldn’t recommend pirating anything.
- Jun 22, 2020
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but I don't use pirated software from anyone, it's EMPRESS, known for circumventing the cursed software of DENUVO, which is malware, because DENUVO behaves like such, causing you to drop fps for no reason and absurd consumption of ram.
Greeting.
- Apr 1, 2019
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I’m not a fan of Denuvo, though it’s never caused me problems. However, Empress is a software designed to circumvent a software protection. And I’d wager a guess there are many tainted versions floating around the web. I can see why Microsoft wouldn’t white list it. Doesn’t seem like a reason to completely invalidate Defender. Especially since a fair amount of Windows users don’t play games at all.
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