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"May Your Head Explode And Blood Swell From The Wound"
- Hashcow
Thank you for your time!
I did use Malwarebytes a few months ago to remove a malware and it worked well so if anything i'd install that one again.
If you don't install security updates you're being stupid and increase your risk of getting malware a lot. If you disable windows defender without installing any alternative you're giving viruses and malware free reign to do anything once they reach your computer.
Nano adblocker will prevent some of the viruses, but only in some cases.
Your defense recommendations are the computer equivalent of leaving door wide open because you've installed security bars that prevent unwanted visitors from entering through windows.
― Stephen King, Duma Key
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
John Lennon
Most malware is designed so that spotting it would require an effort, so it's no wonder you haven't spotted any in 11 years.
The siding manufacturers have noticed a propensity for boards to come loose if there is too much heat on one side, so they send repairmen out to repair or replace the affected boards. They see that the boards across from the furnace panel are loose and needs to be replaced, but they also note evidence of an illegal entry. So they let the owner know, who calls the police and they find the home invader, and haul him off to jail. They also suggest you change locks, as well as your passwords for all of your sites. As you change your passwords, only then do you notice the porn site running on your laptop.
After finding the porn site, you do as suggested and change all of your locks.
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This is in effect how a Microsoft update works.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
Assuming a modern computer with 4 cores each clocked 3.4 Ghz and 10 mbps net connection, someone could be running equivalent Windows 95 on your computer while using just 1% of its resources.
Detecting the slowdown caused by viruses worked occasionally before 2000, but today it's a lost cause because your average computer is too powerful.
Having used most free and paid virus programs and suites...the above seems to work the best and be the least intrusive and trouble free for me.
But to each their own. Use what makes you feel ok at the security level you think you need.
I want you to try an experiment. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then open Task Manager from the menu that appears. The Processes tab will give you a list of processes running on your computer right now. And there's a lot more if you go to the Services tab. Do you know what all of those things running on your computer right now are? If not, then how do you know that one of them isn't a virus? A keylogger wouldn't need much in the way of resources, after all.