Rogue Virus Testers Delude Consumers

It is of course possible for the rogue element to promote such idea but luckily they don't have the reach of malware. Not enough of them

 

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Each consumer who [B]declines[/B] [U]renewing[/U] an antivirus [B]subscription [/B]is a [B]win[/B] for the [B]rogue [/B]testers.

 

Looks like, traditional security vendors are loosing customer's faith.

 

It is no wonder really. The average joe, who never takes the time to really learn, but just button clicks as needed sees the bottom line -- infection after infection after infection. While not entirely the fault of the security tool, you cannot go around advertising "our tool will keep you infection free" either. The end user believes those statements because they don't know any better. The vendor uses those statements to sell product.

How many here who are into security believe all of the advertising they read from something like an AV? We know that it might help, but ultimately it is up to the user to take matters into thier own hands, else it is the same thing over and over -- "my AV was up to date, my OS was up to date, my XYZ was up to date, but I STILL got problems".

Sul.

 

I have helped at least 3 friends that got infected. I know it was their fault. It has tried to get to my wife's computer 3 times. The strange part to me is,the infected people were not on web sites that you would think. But when the screen jumps up telling you that your computer is infected with all these Trojans and viruses ,they panic and click on it. Then they are had. Once you click on it, I don't care what AntiVirus you have you are infected.

 

it happened to some of my friends as well.

the biggest problem i think is that some people view a computer like it's just another appliance.
they don't know computers, they don't like them and they don't want to learn about them.

and of course, you're the one they call when there's problem.

anyway, i'm trialling Drive Snapshot right now as a quick cure to foolishness.

 

I see that you have RollBack RX. Wouldn't that enable you to cure a problem?

 

This.

Some of the AV vendors seem to be falling into somewhat of a panic now that it seems many users are no longer willing to pay their annual AV protection money that still won't prevent them from getting owned.

People don't need "rogue AV testers" to see that AVs can't reliably protect them. All they need to do is use their computers online and see for themselves. Chances are, if they're not getting infected, they wouldn't get infected even without an AV, and if they are getting infected, they do have an AV and it isn't stopping it.

 

When I go online I use FireFox with DefenseWall and Sandboxie. I have Sandboxie set to empty the sandbox when I close FF. Works like a charm.

 

good enough williamp

 

i'm not the one who's having problem.
some of my friends are.

i don't use Rollback RX for mission critical stuff.
for me, it's more like an utility.

imaging i think should always be the first priority of defense.
if you have a clean system image to restore to, you're good to go.

 

Once you click on anywhere on the fake scan site it downloads an exe which still has to be executed to install the rogue.

Simple solution for those that reckon they can't use decent security apps like SB, DW... then stop all exe downloads in IE or FF.

No exe downloads:

Allow exe downloads:

 

this is what i have for my browser protection
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3]
"1806"=dword:00000003

 

so do u have to manually edit it each time you wanna download / install something?

 

yes it's very easy

 

You can save the "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" quotes in my my previous post as .reg files and merge as required.

 

Kernelwars you lazy bum do it manually

 

you are right my good friend I am lazy..its my age...dont hate me that I am closing 98 soon

 

I really wish that we had a software utility for this kind of minor tweaks.would be fun

 

there is one i know samurai hips
http://www.turbotramp.fre3.com/