(April 26, 2016 at 5:16 am)Aractus Wrote: I'm not perpetuating any myths Tiberius. I never said it replaces the function of anti-virus software, I said it's additional layer of protection and clearly explained why. And the reason is that the most likely place to find malware on the internet is in compromised advertisements. They have been found 3 times in the past 12 months on kickass torrents, and at least once on youtube in the last 2 years. UBlock stops advertisements being downloaded in the first place, thus stopping the malware, and it's not just based on known URLs or malware, but also known URLs of advertisers (as I clearly said, when an advertiser gets hacked the malware comes from the advertiser's URL). Of course you should also have AVAST or some other anti-virus running as well (although note that Avast now comes with a bunch of fucking off-putting bundle-ware bullshit, and continually pops up its own fucking advertisement unless you either buy premium or put it into game-mode). As you well know, hackers target the weak point of a system.
You repeatedly said "it blocks malware", which is not what it does. It blocks requests to sites which are known to distribute malware, and also ad networks. There's a big and important difference there. I'm just making sure people don't take what you say literally because uBlock, whilst awesome, is not the only thing you should have to protect your computer, as you also stated.
I would not recommend Avast anymore. The reason it comes with bundle-ware is likely because they use CNET, which is known to bundle software into downloads. Honestly, when it comes to free anti-virus these days, you get what you pay for. I would recommend using Kaspersky.
Quote:The security of the browsers is tested on their default settings. As I've said, they can be hardened which reduces the vulnerability. I, for example, run NoScript on FF as well, I have the MVPS hosts file installed, uBlock, and of course Avast (in game mode), oh and I keep the windows security updates up to date. Other people don't want to put up with the hassle of things like NoScript, and many can't be bothered with antivirus software either (especially now as I've mentioned that the best one IMO, Avast, comes with unwanted bundleware).
Running NoScript is a good start, but it really depends on how you run it. Most of the time you need to enable JavaScript on several sites just to get a workable version. I know on this site you need to enable JavaScript to use several features.
AVAST routinely gets ranked behind several paid anti-virus products these days, and it's honestly not worth it anymore. For a small yearly price, you can get a decent anti-virus which also performs heuristic based detection.
Quote:Anyway, if we go back to what you said about Windows security - yes it's more insecure by the very fact that more malware and viruses target it. But that's just one consideration for a computer system. I make no apologies for not liking Apple - if we go back far enough, they would charge an extra 50%-100% just for the apple logo over the cost of a PC with Windows. And they designed devices to be exclusive to their system - printers, etc. PC has always welcomed competition from manufacturers, and while that can lead to more shonky components, it also leads to greater user-serviceability. Anyway, not only are Macbooks fucking shit in terms of hardware:
And Apple refuses to service them (which is illegal), but let's say I do get ransomware installed on my PC or my Lenovo Laptop. I can just reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows (in fact for the Laptop, I can just hot-swap the SSD for a 2.5" conventional magnetic disk drive I have set to factory settings). I'm sure the process is not that much more difficult for a Macbook, but god only knows how you'd fix a fucking tablet infested with ransomware. Point a heat-gun at the section of the all-in-one-motherboard that has the storage and operating system, pull it off the motherboard, and then re-flash it I suppose.
I'm really not sure why you brought up Apple here (FYI, I use anti-virus on my Mac).
I was talking about Linux / UNIX security, not Apple. Ask any hacker, they will tell you that Windows security is shit. It's nothing to do with the fact it's the most used system, it has everything to do with the underlying system design, the fact that by trying to make everything backwards compatible they shot themselves in the foot, and the fact that security was literally an afterthought when it came to Windows, which is why they've been trying to catch up for years.
With UNIX, they kept it simple, and it worked.
