Just a warning about Windows antivirus.

zimspy said:
Just a note on backups. If your backup is a single copy of whatever you deem important, then you have no backup at all. Also, a DVD backup is actually way worse than a USB drive backup.

A real backup system follows the rule of three. 1, you have the local backup on USB drive; 2, you have a backup on a remote storage device that you control (not something like G-Drive or OneDrive, I mean a remote NAS); 3, you have a GitHub or Google Drive or OneDrive backup.

Don't copy a backup from 1 source to the other. Copy the backup from your original system. If all those backups fail, .... well they just won't.
I haven't lost anything important since 2010 by using this backup style.
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I am not sure why my Thumb drive failed. But It is my fault because normally I do Rom Backup and as you say one copy of something isn't a backup. I would love to use cloud backup but I am on capped internet. Unity files can get very big. The file size was close to 3Gb in size.
 
For as long as I have been in the world of PCs since the 90s part of a fresh install of windows meant install AV software NEVER rely on windows antivirus >_<

Was always the following.

1. Install windows
2. Install AV
3. Install office
4. Use daily for years...
 
Snyper564 said:
For as long as I have been in the world of PCs since the 90s part of a fresh install of windows meant install AV software NEVER rely on windows antivirus >_<

Was always the following.

1. Install windows
2. Install AV
3. Install office
4. Use daily for years...
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Honestly, if it wasn't for my own stupidity, I wouldn't have had this problem to begin with. See I normally use a VM for everything and I didn't this time.

Also is it worth getting Office 2019? I like to buy once off. I don't like subscriptions and avoid them where I can. I found a good price on a retail key.
 
Packeteer was amazing in it's day. Was sold off to BlueCoat which was then sold off to Symantec, and then again to Broadcomm. Think it's all but dead now.
 
gregmcc said:
Packeteer was amazing in it's day. Was sold off to BlueCoat which was then sold off to Symantec, and then again to Broadcomm. Think it's all but dead now.
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Juniper was my product of choice, it was easy to set up and deploy. But I didn't work on many of them because like Packeteer it was expensive. I was at home with Sisco and wanted to learn ICCP but the company I worked for died before I had a chance. But that wasn't as long ago. I hated my data entry job I loved the people but hated the work.

The main reason for this was SCADA and EMS interface. SCADA was used by Siemens and ABB I think. But if you can find Bailey was where it was at. I love the idea that the CPU was located next to the controller. All one ever needed was a laptop and cable. I was stationed at Kendal at the time I think. Might be Duvha but I am almost 100% sure it was Kendal that did the upgrade. It was my first job :love: loved it.
 
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We used to have tons of branches all connected via 64k leased lines and the lines were often killed with AV/patches/users abusing downloaded etc. Put in a pile of packetshaper boxes to thottle the links. They were not cheap, but then again neither was bandwidth.
 
gregmcc said:
We used to have tons of branches all connected via 64k leased lines and the lines were often killed with AV/patches/users abusing downloaded etc. Put in a pile of packetshaper boxes to thottle the links. They were not cheap, but then again neither was bandwidth.
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Yea Paketeer was good in that regard you could tunnel anything. SA breweries use to talk to their respective branches in that way. But I am not sure what happened after that or how long they used them. Juniper was notoriously powerful in that regard. It blocked all traffic that you didn't want to see like Torrents and stuff. Was a very good drop-in solution.

What I didn't like was Dell's KVM over ethernet solution. It was old but worked well. The problem was for whatever reason Juniper would block the traffic. In the end, we had to dedicate a port. But it did get patched a week after I was given the pink slip.
 
McAfee is ewww.
Defender is fine, in addition to having any AV is you have to have a bit of common sense to go along with it.

If you are downloading suspicious/pirated content, at some point your AV is going to block it and in order to get it to work, you'll need to disable or bypass your AV.

It's no different to telling your bodyguard to take a hike while you wait for a nigerian prince to show up.
 
"McAfee, a barely passable virus scanning program, that updates at the worst possible time. Tends to render your compuetr completely useless when it starts and upgrades. which it doesn't ask to start and you cannot cancel or pause."

 
Defender is absolutely more than adequate.

It has been since it was a thing - having used windows since the 90's......

I don't even know how there is a market for all these other anti-virus products
 
_kabal_ said:
Defender is absolutely more than adequate.

It has been since it was a thing - having used windows since the 90's......

I don't even know how there is a market for all these other anti-virus products
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EDR has replaced antivirus now
 
Snyper564 said:
For as long as I have been in the world of PCs since the 90s part of a fresh install of windows meant install AV software NEVER rely on windows antivirus >_<

Was always the following.

1. Install windows
2. Install AV
3. Install office
4. Use daily for years...
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Yeah, but AV's became slower and start feeding through disruptive ads. Windows AV became better and is not much different to any other antivirus now. Just keep it updated. I haven't had a virus or malware since 2012, if not longer.
 
Romy_ said:
I normally didn't worry about a third-party antivirus because Windows Defender isn't bad at all. However, I suspect this when I was trying to find a working version of Electronic Workbench or something like it. I downloaded a ransomware virus. My phone started to give me log-in warnings.

I reacted by downloading Microsoft tools. I scanned the system and found two infections. Despite my best attempts, I couldn't get it out of my system.
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Do you use an adblocker? The amount of popups and unwanted new tabs that uBlock Origin has blocked for me over the years has definitely saved me from some malware.

Regarding the login warnings, were they successful or just attempts? Also have a look on haveibeenpwned to see if your email address was leaked in the past.
 
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