Amaroq_Starwind

Maybe Microsoft should offer to re-hire Dave Plummer as an OS developer, because unlike the current people writing the OS, Dave was actually very competent back when he worked on XP. Heck, he invented Task Manager!

Epic. We need more of innovations like these! 🦊 Perhaps they could be a sort of 'training wheels' for bacterial cocktails? (Just don't make any electrical insulation out of the stuff, because biodegrading wire jackets are bad.)

Time to write a letter to Mozilla about this.

Well... Crap.

But that just prevents WebRTC leaks. You sadly don't actually get the Tor functionality without the TOR browser itself... Though thankfully, that happens to itself be a Firefox branch! In my honest opinion, I think that it would be great if TOR became the standard for... Everything. It's just a shame that it's so slow.

I didn't say that it doesn't detect it, just that Malwarebytes itself would be more effective on M1 Macs if it didn't need to run through Rosetta~

Time to get the Mac version of Malwarebytes ported over to ARM.

Also, because those exploit protection features need to be performed in software (when your CPU doesn't support CET), there is probably quite a large performance bottleneck.

If you want this kind of bacteria to actually be helpful, and safe, you would need to genetically modify it so that it cannot survive in an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. You'd also need to flood the surrounding terrain with a complex combination of antibiotics (many kinds), bacteriophages (to kill any bacteria that became antibiotic-resistant), antibodies to fight those bacteriophages if they themselves get out of control, and benign bacteria that can crowd out the more dangerous bacteria that you're trying to keep in check.

We should write a bot that patrols websites using various user agent strings, and uses mechanisms to detect FakeAlerts and/or trace them back to their source.

Yeah, bacteria evolve very quickly to deal with changes in their environment... And the abundance of inedible plastics made them evolve to eat said plastic. That sounds amazing in concept, but also terrifying: We rely on a lot of things made of plastic specifically because they don't biodegrade easily. If bacteria start eating things we don't want them to, it can cause problems. Just look at the insulation for electrical wiring. We don't want bacteria eating that, especially if that bacteria gets out into the wild. And don't even get me started on things like hermetically sealed structures...

What do you think future Malwarebytes UIs will look like?

Yay. Another Battery-Supercapacitor-Hybrid that will never make it to market. As for the cookie replacement thing, I think it would be better if personalized advertisements were banned outright. Localized advertisements (Location and Language, no more, no less) are fine. But anything that changes from person to person? That needs to be made illegal outright.

Yet another reason to block Google Analytics traffic.

Finally. I've been waiting for Gate-All-Around FETs for years. And also Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors... Tunnel FETs... Bidirectional Insulated Gate BJTs (basically a FET and BJT combined)... Widespread adoption of Silicon Carbide, Silicon Germanium and Strained Silicon... Widespread adoption of Gray Code architectures... I've been following cutting edge processor technologies for years.

It would have been really nice if the person who wrote this paper had instead sent it directly to Anti-Malware authors so that they could get a headstart, instead of publishing it on the web so that potentially anyone on the planet could read it.

I recently installed StrokesPlus on my computer (or rather, the .NET version), and right away I'm trying to think of ways I can use mouse gestures specifically for Malwarebytes.

So, um... Anybody here on the Malwarebytes forums doing user interface design?

I do like the idea of gathering telemetry that explicitly has no means of identifying who the data was collected on.

Don't even get me started on what happens to items you return. It actually hurts.

Why

I think one hypothetical solution for detecting 0-day forkbombs might be to just monitor the behavior of processes and shutdown anything that starts replicating itself abnormally. Another could be to use machine learning to analyze scripts and sort the into three categories; Safe, Unsafe and Uncertain. Through semi-supervised training methods, combined with a library of confirmed bad scripts/commands, to teach the AI to detect things such as forkbombs im advance. But maybe that's a bit outside the scope of this particular thread?

I think the software should at least give you some virtual confetti or something if you've been a long time user.

To my knowledge, the shell for Windows Explorer still supports extensions of various types, provided that they are correctly programmed and meet certain security criteria. With that said, it would be nice to see an extension for Windows Explorer where any file that did not already have an icon and/or thumbnail would show an Identicon representing the file's hash. This would make it easier to identify from a glance if the file has ever been changed. Thoughts?

Huh. Interesting.