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    What are you listening to?

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Thanks for the help :)  I've seen it done at other forums but hadn't asked about it.

     

    I heard this player perform in NYC during my past business travels there.  It's a more traditional jazz sound, the sound that I usually prefer to hear live.

     

    I heard him play at one of NYC's well-known jazz clubs, the "Village Vanguard".  I closed the place that night :D

     

     

     

    This one's at the end of my playlist.  I like to listen to it at the end of the day on the PC or early the next morning.

     

    I was fortunate to hear the piano player live years ago in Dallas.  "Bill Evans", in jazz circles, one of the most well-known traditional piano artists.

     

    Malware: the blame game..

    in General Chat

    Posted

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    ShyWriter,

     

    My choice for the best quote from your initial post:

     


    My personal opinion? There's only one group to blame here which seems to get missed in these debates: the malware writers themselves. After all, the people who create (and use) the malware are responsible for the millions of infected machines and affected businesses, which may both lose a considerable amount of money by either

     

     

    I agree, that's where the focus should be when it comes to the blame game.  As most know, there's no AV product that can provide 100% PC protection. 

     

    I've been on the 'net at home since '04 and have used 3 AV products during that time with various results.

     

    Trend Micro:  That was my 1st AV back in my XP days.  I'd grade it a "C-" since it blocked a lot of attacks during that time but was unable to prevent some of the residual results from getting past its frontline security schemes.

     

    ESET: I had this one installed at the same time that I bought a new PC with Windows 7 (64) back in '10 .  It was recommended due to its streamlined approach to system resource usage compared to the other mainline AV tools.

     

    I liked its user interface and I could see that my PC response time was slightly faster than my current (Norton) AV but the bottom line for me is that ESET failed to block all effects of intrusions to my PC.  It detected a "parent" threat and appeared to block the intrusion but I wound up having to run safe-mode scans or remove my HDD and install my cloned backup HDD to recover from the incidents.

     

    Norton (360): I installed it in December '12 and so far so good on my PC.  I read some online articles about AV comparisons and spent some time at various AV forums before deciding on Norton for my 3rd AV tool.

     

    After ESET failed to protect my PC while I was at a reputable site, one where I visit daily, I decided to try another AV product.  The interesting thing about that attack was, I happened to be on the phone with a friend that was running Norton and was visiting the same site.  Norton protected his PC from the same intrusion.  Both PC's are running Windows 7 64-bit (my friend's and mine) although he's running Firefox browser and I use IE(10).

     

    I was going to choose "Bitdefender" last December but my shopping research discovered that Bitdefender isn't compatible with Office '03.  I'm still running Office '03 since it meets my needs at present although I know that next April, MS will discontinue Office '03 security updates (at the same time as XP).

     

    Regarding PC performance and AV's in general, I look at it this way:  I'd rather lose a slight (for me, being an average PC user) drop in system performance and rely on an AV tool that has a better % track record with blocking intrusions.

     

    Prince_Serendip

     


    In the past 13 years online I have had zero viruses, and only four trojans (all detected and removed before they could cause problems).

     

     

    I have a couple of friends that have the same track record as home 'net PC users.  I've averaged about 1 intrusion per year since '04, where those intrusions got through my AV tool's frontline protection schemes.

     

    With those occasions, I was able to recover about 60-70% of the time by running safe-mode AV scans.  For those incidents where I wasn't able to recover, due to my lack of knowledge on the subject, I installed my spare HDD. 

     

    In my opinion, that's the best approach with home PC protection.  I maintain a spare HDD which is 4 weeks behind my everyday HDD in terms of real-time replacement readiness.  I clone my Desktop PC HDD every 4 weeks which takes about an hour or so to complete the cloning process and test the "Target" HDD as a complete bootable HDD replacement.

     

    For me, this setup works well since I no longer need to spend time and possibly $'s with online AV support to clean my original HDD.

     

    I'd rather maintain a cloning or imaging routine since I can completely recover from any virus or malware intrusion within a few minutes.

     

    This worked for me twice last year before switching to Norton.  When I was running ESET, I got hit with that "FBI" virus, complete with the official-sounding FBI audio and completely blocking my 'net, etc, the typical symptoms.

     

    The good part is that I was on the phone with my friend at the time it happened, and I laughed at the FBI voice since I knew I had my spare HDD on the shelf ready to go.  I was recovered in a few minutes and cruising in 'net land.

     

    I'm a cautious 'net user, as are my friends.  I know from my experience that prudent, safe surfing can't prevent all attacks out there.

     

    What I've seen with friends, myself, is that AV product opinions and personal experiences with their performance records are very diverse and the best defense for one's home PC's is to have that cloned HDD or image ready to go in case it's needed to recover the PC.

     

    GT500, Very good point:

     


    Since users expect their time to be enjoyable (or at least not a hassle) when using their computers, it is always best when anti-virus software does not make a nuisance of itself.          

     

     

    Everyone has their own approach to PC protection.  I can only give my 2 cents on this topic.  For me, there's no substitute for having a complete HDD with the OS, all personal data, ready to go on the shelf.

     

    It's a peace of mind thing for me in the home PC world.

     

    I used to run with a Raid 1 setup on my Desktop PC but due to unrelated complications with the array, I discontinued Raid 1 use.

     

    Raid 1 is a good setup for a HDD real-time replacement tool but it won't help if a virus/malware intrusion gets past the AV/MBAM protection as both HDD's will be affected by the attack.

    Shortcut Keys for MBAM Console

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

     

    Hi:

     

    I'll defer to the experts and staff about keyboard shortcuts, but I thought I would mention that daily Full scans with MBAM are neither necessary, nor recommended.  Quick scans are sufficient in most routine cases, as explained here:

    What is the difference between the three scan types in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware?

    and here:

     

     

    Just sayin'. :)

     

    Cheers,

     

    daledoc1

     

     

    Thanks for the scanner info.  I think I'll edit my scheduler and run the Quick Scan daily/overnight and maybe run a Full Scan weekly.

     

    Just to add.... not to mention the wear and tear your putting on your hard drive running a full scan daily....

     

    That's a good point.  I've considered that point when I was running overnight full scans with my previous AV tool.

     

    One reason that I'm not as concerned about the HDD wear is that, due to my cloning scheme, I always run on what I refer to as my "A" HDD which I always re-install after I complete my cloning process.

     

    After I clone, I test the "Target" HDD (my "B" HDD), boot up, and run it for a few minutes to insure that it's a working spare.  Then I re-install my "A" HDD and run with that one until my next cloning (every 4 weeks).

     

    In that way, my "A" HDD gets the bulk of the wear in the event of a HDD issue develops related to age/hours in use.

     

    The cloned spare is ready with minimum use-hours when or if I need to replace my original HDD.

     

    I also have a 3rd spare HDD that's more of a failsafe in case I have a undetected intrusion that doesn't manifest itself until several weeks elapse.

     

    I've been fortunate over the years with HDD's.  As yet I've not encountered a HDD failure in my PC's.

     

    daledoc1 & Firefox

     

    Thanks for the advice t8nbpt.jpg

    Conflict with NIS

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    New here, just read the thread.    Thanks exile360 for the detailed info about AV / MBAM co-existence.

     

    I'm running Windows 7 Home 64-bit and MBAM Pro with Norton 360 Ver 20.4.0.40  on my Desktop and Laptop PC's.

     

    I had seen a few instances of the "Autofix" dialog box referenced in the thread where Norton's dialog box displayed "MBAM Conflict" but since Symantec included the patch in an update I haven't seen a repeat of the Autofix dialog box issue.

     

    I've been running Norton since December '12 and MBAM Pro simultaneously with no observed conflicts.  I run daily overnight unattended scans with both tools which is probably a little overkill scanning but since my PC's are idle overnight I figure it can't hurt to use the scanning options at that time.

     

    I'm a member over at the Norton forum which is, imo a friendly and very informative community but they are adamant about not running MBAM Pro with an AV due to possible conflict issues.

     

    Their main point about it is that they are maintain that by running 2 simultaneous real-time scanners, the potential for an intrusion increases due to the 2 scanner tools conflicting to take ownership of an incoming threat that both tools have detected at the same time.

     

    I don't mention at their forum that I'm running my PC's with both scanners in real-time mode to avoid redundant posts about the subject.

     

    I guess I prefer having a 2nd scanner tool that's  running simultaneously with my AV to catch malware-specific threats.

     

    Since I've been running both in this mode, I've seen several MBAM notifications in the Tray whereas Norton hadn't indicated the detection of the same item.

     

    I know that some notifications may be false-positive alerts but that doesn't distract me and I'd rather have a little too much protection vs not running a 2nd protection tool alongside my AV.

     

    The explanations here in the thread have been beneficial reading :).

     

    Imo, the best approach is to also maintain a complete HDD backup scheme, cloning or imaging to insure a fast recovery in the event of an intrusion that gets past both scanner tools and gets complicated to clean the infection from the everyday HDD on one's PC.

     

    Before running MBAM and switching to Norton last year, I've used my spare cloned HDD to recover from a couple of infections.  In that way, I didn't spend time cleaning or safe-mode scanning, etc, to fix my original HDD. 

     

    I just plugged in my spare cloned HDD and was running in a few minutes.  I clone every 4 weeks, along with running an overnight specific-item backup tool in order to maintain a spare HDD for such events.

    Shortcut Keys for MBAM Console

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    Hello and :welcome:

    I am not on the Malwarebytes staff nor development team, but as far as I know there are no keyboard shortcuts available. If I am wrong I am sure one of the staff folks will chime in....

     

    2r7nfdh.jpg for the welcome.  Cool emote there :)

     

    My guess was the same about the shortcut keys answer.  If I wasn't a keyboard "geek" I wouldn't have thought about it in the MBAM console :lol:

     

    Every so often, I can't use some shortcut keys, as with some Windows that are open, Task Scheduler, Disk Manager within Windows.

     

    I've been reading about general MBAM info over at the Norton forum.  They have a MBAM section which I like to visit frequently as I'm running Norton AV along with MBAM Pro.

    Shortcut Keys for MBAM Console

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I've been running MBAM Pro since last September.  It's a good "2nd-opinion" tool that I use to compliment Norton AV. 

     

    I run a scheduled unattended daily (overnight) full scan which has been running without issue.

     

    I'm a keyboard shortcut PC user and don't often use the mouse on my PC.

     

    Does MBAM have shortcut keys available for use with the main console?

     

    In other words, I'd like to be able to select one of the tabs ("Scanner", Protection", "Update", etc) with the keyboard in a way that's similar to switching the tabs in a browser with <ctrl> tab such as IE, or selecting tabs within an Excel file with <ctrl> page up/down .

     

     

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