I even hang around on illegal underground russian sites and have been for many years. And not a single STD has ever been recieved.Really dont get how people get infected so much. Been using the default windows AV for 6+ years and I go to all sorts of sites, for "free" stuff too, multiple mail accounts and have yet to get a single infection on windows.
.. if it looks dodge, dont click/install it
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Moosedrool
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I personally don’t see the need for the fully featured IDE if you’re gonna compile your code in UE. VSCode is perfect and can be kept lightweight for this purpose.
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Your audio stuff is not going to transfer that easily especially plugins. Can you explain a bit about these viruses you’re getting because they really don’t just appear like that? Windows is a hard target but malware, viruses and ransomware is 99.99999% traceable to the use of the pc itself.
10:10
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Admitting that you are breaking the law on a public forum where your IP address gets logged on handshake regardless of VPN. Congratulations.
Tell me you are talking crap without telling me you are talking crap.
Moosedrool
Honorary Master
If he’s behind a vpn some other ip unrelated to his ISP’s ASN gets logged. :/
Not sure what you’re saying here.
10:10
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Well found the problem, turns out my one DVD got an infection. Two install files were the problem. I cut a new disk without these two executables seems to be fine now. Looks like my TP link driver got infected and my Mouse driver. I pulled new drivers from the websites to add to the new disk. I keep my drivers on DVD because it helps keep the downloads on the low side. Still scanning the rest of my DVD/CDs. But yea at the time I created these disks the antivirus didn't detect it. I guess they didn't know about it at the time. I was using Microsoft Antivirus at the time. To be fair to them new viruses come out all the time. Well, they clearly found it now. I was still running win10 at the time.
Just goes to show, nothing is 100%.
Just goes to show, nothing is 100%.
Moosedrool
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10:10
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Actually, the ISP logs your encrypted data as well as none encrypted. I know this for a fact because your ISP allows encrypted packets. They can block them if asked to do so. So essentially all VPNs are at the mercy of the ISP.
So how do they connect your encrypted data with this website for example? Well, that is where the OSI model comes to mess with you. You have two essential functions one is ARP the other is MAC. The one that might get you in trouble is the MAC Table. See the MAC table that sits on layer two holds two very important details. The first is the physical switch port and the second is your MAC tables map. Now the breakout computer on the VPN or Tor for this matter needs to know where you are otherwise it can't send the requested information back to you. Yes, this is stored in volatile memory, that is how they protect you. That MAC table gets trashed as the memory refreshes. Secondly, some VPNs don't even hide it because it is not part of the TCP/IP stack. But if they really want to find you, all they have to do is match the breakout MAC that is not encrypted with the inbound MAC that is not encrypted. But it is not something someone can do remotely. They need to compromise the breakout server.
Now it is a hell of a lot of trouble to through as they will need court orders and all kinds of legal stuff. But since you used the keyword Russia they might be interested. Anyhow this is how it was explained to me, I might have left something out. I only did a few pen-testing workshops with a couple of friends. But it is fun it is a lot of fun. We use our old hardware setup servers and stuff and then we learn how to do stuff..
10:10
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It is a bit more expensive now. Ableton Live 11 Suite
I like the once and done license. NewCorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2023
But then when you need them you're installing old drivers? You're making your life kak complicated imo.
Moosedrool
Honorary Master
No. Your vpn provider routes the traffic. Unless your vpn providers wan is using the same isp and you’re their only user your mac or arp entires can only tell them you’re connecting to a vpn service. If set up correctly your Isp can’t see anything apart from that.
The only logs, and details sits with your vpn provider not your isp. And yes a isp can block encrypted connections and lose practically all their customers.
10:10
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Not really few examples is my scanner. It is a cannon scanner and it is no longer officially supported. I can't find drivers for it so I use the old Win7 64bit driver for it. Another good one is my sound card it hasn't had a driver update in a few years now and it is no longer supported. I can't get that driver easily. So yes it can make one's life hard but also if you want to keep old stuff going there is not much one can do about it. My printer is a monster of a device and the last update it had was in 2007. I got it second hand and works to this day.
10:10
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Keeping such old hardware.. you do know you WILL bend over for overpriced MAC stuff right
and then the old hardware probably wont work on the mac's anyway
Moosedrool
Honorary Master
10:10
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It doesn't have to actually. See for example my 3D printer works a USB. It doesn't care where the file came from or what OS. As long as the file format is correct. I plug it into my printer and it prints. A few hours later I have a positive 3D image that I then make a mould from and sell the moulds for people that like to do Chocolate castings and stuff like that. It is a reasonable income and I get paid. The same is true for my printer. It has an old laptop driving it. I load the file onto the old laptop hit print it makes stickers for me. I also got a similar printer to this one Edible Ink Printing Start-Up Kit. It makes its money not a lot but keeping it working is kind of important to me.Keeping such old hardware.. you do know you WILL bend over for overpriced MAC stuff right
and then the old hardware probably wont work on the mac's anyway
Messugga
Honorary Master
Tell me you're a second year CS student without telling me you're a second year CS student.
10:10
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kind of yes and no. I enrolled in online classes and I take it very seriously. My pen testing, my programming and my 3D model-making are very important to me. I also did A+ N+ and other courses with comptia.org Planning on Java next. and also my GED to fill my high school requirements.
Please understand I am not saying this to impress you or make you feel sorry for me. No, I am just showing I am committed and take my life seriously.
So I mostly play games, but it seems very unlikely to me that game dev tools will work on Mac since, well, Mac has pretty much ignored gaming up until the last week or so?
This. And I even visited the occasional dirty site.
