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In the meantime windows defender gave a warning message and when I scanned the pc with kaspersky I cleaned 4 trojans, but is this enough. What information was leaked?
Now try to do it on a real working computer which have like hundreds of processes running which you have no idea what they are or if they are kegit or not
linux vulnerabilities are more because it's open source and all eyes are reporting any minor problems, in windows when a vulnerability apear it's already too late..
but surely there's a difference between number of viruses/vulnerabilities vs rate of infection, no? There are just as many if not more threats on Linux as on Windows, sure, but what are the odds of you getting it through normal every day use vs. on Windows. I don't think the argument for Linux was ever "there are fewer viruses/threats", I've always seen it framed as the odds being infinitesimally lower.
Microsoft’s Edge is a browser that I like and would miss should I switched to Linux; is Edge going to be spying on me, even in Linux? Your comments, as well, of course, as your video[s], would be appreciated.
I love anything that will keep eyes off me and my stuff, although I have nothing much to hide and nothing to take from. Anyone that wants my identity is welcome to it, in fact I'll trade ya for yours and give you 5 bucks on top of it. This was helpful, thank you. I just got an 11 laptop and that damn temp button on the left was driving me nuts. I use my laptop on a roller table when I'm on my sofa watching RU-vid on TV. My mouse sometimes slides down (table is tilted) and that damn wall of widgets pops up while I'm typing. I heard that taskbar settings would take care of it, but I only saw the "temp" app and I didn't mind that, but didn't want all that news shit and didn't see a different setting for that. Shutup10 cleaned that up, although it did take the temperature icon away. That's okay though, this is Florida and I know the weather is friggin' hot. How can I not know what the weather is when I look out the window or open the door? I'm cool with it, or rather I'm hot with it. Thanks! What happened to XP? I swear, that was the easiest OS ever made. I don't hate Microsoft, I applaud them. We wouldn't be concerned with Windows without them. They deserve a congressional medal for changing the planet. I just wish they'd keep my business out of theirs. It's like having sex with someone you don't like. You love what you get out of it, but you hate what you have to go through to get it, but y'all didn't hear that from me.
Can you test Iobit Malware fighter 11.2. They now have Bitdefender engine as well. Wonder how you think it does. Same with Iobit Advance System Care ultimate as it has its own AV as well. If your interested i can always send you a Key to use that's real and works. I have 1 for Malware Fighter. Thanks so much for all you do.
These anti-virus programs are all more like a giant white list. Any utility/tool not made by a major is frequently tagged malware when it is 1 compact and 2 calls win32 functions related to keyboard mouse network hashing lalala. They are all a joke no matter what fancy names they use.
Tech illiterate here.. What is a good way to learn linux? I have a laptop that might be a good candidate for it. I just know nothing about it and feel as though I could be targeted quickly downloading the wrong files from the wrong places.
Best way is to immerse yourself and read/watch plenty of videos and guides for whatever distro you want to use. In general, good beginner Linux distros are: Linux Mint, Zorin OS and Ubuntu. Linux fanatics have strong opinions about distros and will likely tell you that you should use x distro and that anything else is trash. Others will tell you that y distro is the greatest thing and that x is absolute trash and so on. As for using Linux: you can choose to install it on your laptop. Do note that this will erase everything off of your laptop so you want to make sure you make a backup of all important data you want to keep. You can setup a dual-boot system if you're willing to learn about partitions and boot loaders. This way you can still run your Windows system (if that's what you have installed) and have the option to boot into the Linux distro that you install. If you're not willing or comfortable doing a clean install, the next best alternative is to create a virtual machine using something like VirtualBox or VMWare. As the name implies, a virtual machine is a virtual computer that runs inside of your physical computer. It lets you create multiple virtual systems that you can install systems onto and use them as if they were real systems. You don't get the full performance as if you install the system directly on your laptop, but its generally good enough for learning. As a side note: Linux and laptops don't always work great unfortunately. your mileage may vary but just be aware that sometimes things don't work great out of the box when you install Linux on a laptop. It may be things like wifi/bluetooth not working, the touchpad doesn't work correctly, etc. Its hit or miss sometimes.
@@JJFlores197 thank you for the information! I didn’t know about a dual boot option. I’ll have to check that out. I think playing around with the virtual machines could be fun. I wouldn’t be surprised that drivers and such would be an issue on a barebones platform, is it as simple as downloading the drivers to get the wifi going again?
What the hell is an elf file and why have I never heard or seen them before? Can I peak inside it like a shell script? Do I need to chmod +x it to run it or does it need additional utils? My users don't have sudo so it sounds like blowing away their Home dir will clear it like any other local issue or dirty script. What is the way to overtake a Linux machine with elf automatically?
You can harden your Linux distro, while still being user friendly on a daily basis, while it is much harder on Windows, and even MacOS. Thanks for this video.
Obviously, Linux isn’t an antivirus, so it’ll be vulnerable to running malware like any other OS. I think the saying it’s more secure is from the fact that people who use Linux are usually more experienced in computers than windows users who want free vbucks.
Stop bullshitting!!¡ GNU/Linux based operating systems are the most secure!! Windows has built-in malware that sends updates about your po*n stash folder to Microsoft every ¼ of a second!!!!!!!!!!!!11 😠
Just hit by this scam tonight while looking on an engineering site. The fake page said my laptop had been hacked and was infected. The page asked me to renew my subscription, never used Mcaffy. The page locked my pc, being as I am I powered off the lap top. Running a full scan now with Bitdefender, no problems showed up so far. Are there no lengths these people will go to to get your money?
Hi! Every time i enjoy the quality and details of your videos. After watching a few of your videos i was inspired to create a challenge for my students to create a (restoreable) virtual environment to test malware and see the effects in "real life". I'm searching for quite a while now but it seems very difficult to find "open sources" with malware we can use to test within this sealed and virtual environment. Can you help me with some sources where i can download (very carefully of course ;-) ) some malware samples fot my students. I'm teaching vocational (IT students) within the Vista College. Would you like to help me with this? Kind Regards, Arno (IT Teacher + former IT professional)
It's true. I remember back inn the day dealing with some horrific emacs holes. And the very term "rootkit" came from unix exploits. If it can execute code, then that code could be malware, regardless of platform.
Half of malware and viruses runned in wine will work on linux just fine and you will be infected. Wine is not a sandbox or virtual machine, it translates the calls and has acces to your filesystem. If you want to stay secure on linux don't install wine or windows software, stay away from flatpaks and other delivery mechanisms apart of distrobox and your native package manager. Only use bigger distros with community and good reputation. --- I am a Linux user with 8+ years of experience and never in my life I run .elf on Linux purposefully myself, maybe it run for me when I get something from the package manager I'm not sure. In Linux most end user executables are scripts, which you first examine and only then make executable with chmod +x
