The ONLY reason why you Jow Forumsoys never recommend an antivirus program whenever its brought up is because some of you are the faggots writing the scripts and programs. I know some of you sadists write malware and the others who don't but still say "common sense" are ignorant idiots and good goys for any of the black hats.
You know the funny thing about modern malware and viruses? They are designed to undetectable and blend right in to the OS. Hell some will hide itself or move directories if you go snooping for it.
95% of you who say common sense definitely have some form of malware and the other 5% are the faggots programming them
clamav.net this will check any script that run on your os
Austin Evans
Yeah. Makes me think of what people would tell me when I had casual discussions on malware before. They sounded paranoid and convinced they knew more than someone whose job is actually related to computers.
Justin Nguyen
>hurr durr just don't install shady shit durr That's literally not how it works but whatever, who cares. Let's just ignore that elusive "sHaDy PrOgRaMs" are not how viruses get spread or infect victims anymore since 20 years. Let's ignore that Javascript and Ads are a much bigger threat, just as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Image files and PDFs are a much greater risk than literally downloading everything and executing it with admin rights or as root. Your great common sense doesn't do jackshit when your boss (unknowingly) sends you an infected .xls file or just a word document with embedded microcode that in turn infects your entire system and network. But my bad for assuming there are people with a brain or a job on this board.
Dylan Adams
define software then
Owen Wright
>just don't connect to the internet bro
Jackson Ross
You don't fully understand IT security, It's OK, not everyone does, but don't believe the bullshit the people trying to sell you AV are telling you. Once you understand how infections occur you will be able to make a better decision on whether you actually need AV.
Cooper Hill
>This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. So yeah, just viewing a shortcut file can cause bad shit to go down. Best advice: keep your OS up-to-date, most importantly your browser. Even the shadiest of sites can't do anything then (0-days excluding).
Jason Wright
from your own quote >An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user
So this vulnerability can prompt for permission to install shit, which the user will have to click on
that is just an example of how shit can install 'automagically', it can of course just be a vector to get an other exploit to run that elevates privileges (the sky is the limit on an unpatched machine)
Landon Evans
> >being logged in as admin Getting in is just the first step. Then again, maybe you're after something that does not need an elevation, like network scan or just user files.
