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Windows Defender vs Ransomware! (Shocking Results?)
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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 1081043" data-attributes="member: 19756"><p>Right, and then something goes wrong, and you'll need a repair man. Unless you want fix the car yourself. The damage could have been caused by wear-and-tear, wrong driving, a defect in the vehicle, or <em>force majeure</em>. (You'll need insurance for the latter.)</p><p></p><p>Getting a license involves correcting one of those. For the rest....</p><p></p><p>That's why the meaning of "good habits," together with security program features, keeps changing.</p><p></p><p>First, it's just making sure you visit "safe" websites and software. Now, it's putting adblockers and security add-ons, plus getting security programs that go beyond just signature-checking in case "safe" is no longer safe.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, there are always chances that one will forget, especially in a rush (and in a 24-7 world where customers want goods and services <em>pronto</em> that'll always take place: you gotta do things better and faster), so things better be automated and done quickly, like having something run automatically in a virtual box instead of doing it manually or letting it sit for days (as if every job in the world essentially involves doing that), or using cloud detection instead of doing things manually and sending what's downloaded for various sites to be tested, and so on. Meanwhile, it turns out there's a reason why certain features are turned off in various apps, including built-in ones.</p><p></p><p>Reminds me of Microsoft telling users to turn off virtualization (in case they turned it on) in case of a slowdown, and then remember to turn it on again after.</p><p></p><p>Again, my point isn't that "good habits" aren't needed (similar to advice about common sense and using backups) but that it's not enough, and the fact that one keeps adding to its meaning (download only "safe" software, but in case it isn't safe, you better not run it until someone tells you that it's safe, or send it to someone to test it; visit only "safe" websites, but in case they're not safe, you better contact others and ask them if it's safe, or install something that looks at the website to see if it's really safe and/or ask others who visited the site and see what happened to them, and so on) shows that it's not sufficient advice.</p><p></p><p>It gets worse when one counters this by saying that one is just be paranoid, or that one is simply overreacting, and that there are only an x percent chance that you'll be infected, so don't worry, or just backup because everyone knows that as long as you restore your data you'll be fine (just imagine that it wasn't stolen).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 1081043, member: 19756"] Right, and then something goes wrong, and you'll need a repair man. Unless you want fix the car yourself. The damage could have been caused by wear-and-tear, wrong driving, a defect in the vehicle, or [I]force majeure[/I]. (You'll need insurance for the latter.) Getting a license involves correcting one of those. For the rest.... That's why the meaning of "good habits," together with security program features, keeps changing. First, it's just making sure you visit "safe" websites and software. Now, it's putting adblockers and security add-ons, plus getting security programs that go beyond just signature-checking in case "safe" is no longer safe. Meanwhile, there are always chances that one will forget, especially in a rush (and in a 24-7 world where customers want goods and services [I]pronto[/I] that'll always take place: you gotta do things better and faster), so things better be automated and done quickly, like having something run automatically in a virtual box instead of doing it manually or letting it sit for days (as if every job in the world essentially involves doing that), or using cloud detection instead of doing things manually and sending what's downloaded for various sites to be tested, and so on. Meanwhile, it turns out there's a reason why certain features are turned off in various apps, including built-in ones. Reminds me of Microsoft telling users to turn off virtualization (in case they turned it on) in case of a slowdown, and then remember to turn it on again after. Again, my point isn't that "good habits" aren't needed (similar to advice about common sense and using backups) but that it's not enough, and the fact that one keeps adding to its meaning (download only "safe" software, but in case it isn't safe, you better not run it until someone tells you that it's safe, or send it to someone to test it; visit only "safe" websites, but in case they're not safe, you better contact others and ask them if it's safe, or install something that looks at the website to see if it's really safe and/or ask others who visited the site and see what happened to them, and so on) shows that it's not sufficient advice. It gets worse when one counters this by saying that one is just be paranoid, or that one is simply overreacting, and that there are only an x percent chance that you'll be infected, so don't worry, or just backup because everyone knows that as long as you restore your data you'll be fine (just imagine that it wasn't stolen). [/QUOTE]
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