What is your security setup?

[bo.elam]

Overmann, I think you should have some kind of protection. I believe
that, as you are now, is just a matter of time before you get infected.
You might even be infected now, you just dont know it. Find aplications
that are light and that works well on your PC and you ll be fine.
You can get infected even by visiting mother Teresas webpage and
your browsing even though normal it is dangerous when you visit
porn sites.
If I was you I would at least add Sandboxie and keep the scanner to
scan downloads. Sandboxie does not slow down my PC at all and the
PC feels the same with or without SBIE. It would probably be the
same on yours.

Bo

[Overmann]

Originally Posted by bo.elam

Overmann, I think you should have some kind of protection. I believe
that, as you are now, is just a matter of time before you get infected.
You might even be infected now, you just dont know it. Find aplications
that are light and that works well on your PC and you ll be fine.
You can get infected even by visiting mother Teresas webpage and
your browsing even though normal it is dangerous when you visit
porn sites.
If I was you I would at least add Sandboxie and keep the scanner to
scan downloads. Sandboxie does not slow down my PC at all and the
PC feels the same with or without SBIE. It would probably be the
same on yours.

Bo

You mean, I can install sandboxie and be virtually invincible?

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by Overmann

You mean, I can install sandboxie and be virtually invincible?

Nothing can make you invincible but its proven that you can browse
with no AV when using SBIE alone and not get infected just like its
also proven that browsing like you do will get you in trouble.
You are not invincible because you might recover a infected file,
if that file is executed then you ll get infected. Its your fault
if you recover and execute that file. Scan the file before executing.
I am just giving you something that has worked well for me and its
better for prevention than any other application that I know of. I am
always thinking on preventing infections not detecting them after the
fact like you do. Detecting infection is ancient History. Do you want
to be part of the future/present or the past? That my friend is for you
to figure out. I did 2 years ago.

Bo

[Overmann]

Nah, couldn't tolerate it. Now I'm looking for a way to not start explorer at windows startup, task manager and k-meleon web browser are everything I need.

And my dormant anti-malware scanners at desktop.

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by Overmann

Nah, couldn't tolerate it. Now I'm looking for a way to not start explorer at windows startup, task manager and k-meleon web browser are everything I need.

And my dormant anti-malware scanners at desktop.

If I was doing it your way and not getting infected, then I would not
add or change nothing. Can you tell me, when you scan with your
dormant anti-malware scanners at desktop, do they find anything
or not?


Bo

[eyeb]

hm add virustotal's firefox plugin to toolbox if you dont have active scanner.
plugin will scan things for you before you download

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by eyeb

hm add virustotal's firefox plugin to toolbox if you dont have active scanner.
plugin will scan things for you before you download

Great suggestion eyeb, that would be perfect for him or somebody
using SBIE with no real time anti virus.

Bo

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by eyeb

hm add virustotal's firefox plugin to toolbox if you dont have active scanner.
plugin will scan things for you before you download

Thanks eb! I didn't know about the addon either.

[Overmann]

Originally Posted by bo.elam

If I was doing it your way and not getting infected, then I would not
add or change nothing. Can you tell me, when you scan with your
dormant anti-malware scanners at desktop, do they find anything
or not?


Bo

Last time I scanned with SAS they found a lot of tracking cookies from my sister's account. But they are at the bottom of security risk.

Before that, I major trojan caused me some troubles. Opening google homepage everytime I clicked a random link, preventing Housecall from updating. But SAS was able to stop it.

Housecall once detected a weird "1.exe" as a trojan.

Now I think I'm pretty clean, I'll post again if anything was detected today or tomorrow, I've had some naughty browsing lately.

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by Overmann

Last time I scanned with SAS they found a lot of tracking cookies from my sister's account. But they are at the bottom of security risk.

Before that, I major trojan caused me some troubles. Opening google homepage everytime I clicked a random link, preventing Housecall from updating. But SAS was able to stop it.

Housecall once detected a weird "1.exe" as a trojan.

Now I think I'm pretty clean, I'll post again if anything was detected today or tomorrow, I've had some naughty browsing lately.

You are getting infected, you need protection real time. Do yourself a favor
and get some. Your machine is badly infected.

Bo