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Worth Upgrading to Win 11 Pro for Security Reasons?
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<blockquote data-quote="patrick85" data-source="post: 1076758" data-attributes="member: 94558"><p>Interesting, I read through Bitdefender forums and it seems that Bitdefender do scan boot sectors as well (<a href="https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/92002/i-made-a-full-scan-and-got-this-result-i-dont-know-what-to-do" target="_blank">I made a full scan and got this result , I don't know what to do</a>). Regarding the solutions you mentioned, I maybe wasn't very specific, the laptop I use is for my own personal use mainly such as normal web browsing, gaming, I do also use it for work on different projects so I wouldn't want to have a machine where nothing is allowed on it. Lots of customisation can also sometimes represent an issue because when I get too many manual prompts about whether to allow something or not I don't want to be spending 2 hours each day investigating whether any change that happens was legitimate or not. </p><p></p><p>The reason I know I had my remote desktop compromised and this happened on my old laptop was that I seen some symptoms of my device acting weird such as slowing down and then I was also threatened outside of digital life where I knew 100 percent my devices(not only laptop but as I found out also my smartphone...) were compromised. I then bought paid version of Avast Antivirus that had remote desktop protection module which Immediately after installation notified me of breach of my remote desktop connection. Some time after that I got completely different devices and installed named security tools(not avast as when I was being hacked for a long period of time I had free version of Avast installed that obviously didn't protect me) from previous post on my system right after win installation, win 11 also has secure boot enabled by default and all other security settings as part of TMP 2.0. Unfortunately recently bitdefender has found out Babar malware family trojan on my system and I again have some real life reasons to believe my personal devices may have been compromised. </p><p></p><p>Also I see this black stains on my display from time to time for some split second which could be some graphics problem but also I have screen taking ability disabled by spyshelter and if you would take a print screen you would get just a dark square, may be a far fetch but if some RAT or something similar is taking screenshots of my desktop and sending it somewhere in a split microsecond it could perhaps cause something like this. I unfortunately also think that the laptop I have may be/have been physically accessed by the attackers so I think that Bitlocker could potentially at least help me with that if attackers would get physical access to the device again. Also regarding the recommendations there is always this discussion for every AV that it's the best one but I guess no security solution is a guarantee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patrick85, post: 1076758, member: 94558"] Interesting, I read through Bitdefender forums and it seems that Bitdefender do scan boot sectors as well ([URL='https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/92002/i-made-a-full-scan-and-got-this-result-i-dont-know-what-to-do']I made a full scan and got this result , I don't know what to do[/URL]). Regarding the solutions you mentioned, I maybe wasn't very specific, the laptop I use is for my own personal use mainly such as normal web browsing, gaming, I do also use it for work on different projects so I wouldn't want to have a machine where nothing is allowed on it. Lots of customisation can also sometimes represent an issue because when I get too many manual prompts about whether to allow something or not I don't want to be spending 2 hours each day investigating whether any change that happens was legitimate or not. The reason I know I had my remote desktop compromised and this happened on my old laptop was that I seen some symptoms of my device acting weird such as slowing down and then I was also threatened outside of digital life where I knew 100 percent my devices(not only laptop but as I found out also my smartphone...) were compromised. I then bought paid version of Avast Antivirus that had remote desktop protection module which Immediately after installation notified me of breach of my remote desktop connection. Some time after that I got completely different devices and installed named security tools(not avast as when I was being hacked for a long period of time I had free version of Avast installed that obviously didn't protect me) from previous post on my system right after win installation, win 11 also has secure boot enabled by default and all other security settings as part of TMP 2.0. Unfortunately recently bitdefender has found out Babar malware family trojan on my system and I again have some real life reasons to believe my personal devices may have been compromised. Also I see this black stains on my display from time to time for some split second which could be some graphics problem but also I have screen taking ability disabled by spyshelter and if you would take a print screen you would get just a dark square, may be a far fetch but if some RAT or something similar is taking screenshots of my desktop and sending it somewhere in a split microsecond it could perhaps cause something like this. I unfortunately also think that the laptop I have may be/have been physically accessed by the attackers so I think that Bitlocker could potentially at least help me with that if attackers would get physical access to the device again. Also regarding the recommendations there is always this discussion for every AV that it's the best one but I guess no security solution is a guarantee. [/QUOTE]
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