Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2016 Jan 12, 16:30
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division by zero!
Statistics: Posted by nikos — 2016 Jan 12, 16:05
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Just similar in their sense of impending doom and frustrations.
Tell me about it - if I'm still Bruce Boxleitner, what the heck happened to me after Babylon 5? I mean... I don't want to be an IMDB statistic! The Nikosverse is just a scary place where logic and reason just don't seem to ride on the same prevailing winds of ergonomic design... but that's relatively easy to deal with compared to the VM's where I wake up as Toshirô Mifune, or James Caan in that tollbooth.The great thing about VM's is that you can just reset them and easily regain that false sense of security we all have when we're warm and safe under the duvet. If it weren't for my illusions, I could never get through the day.
One has to wonder how poor Nikos handles the pressure... so many bugs and feature requests (as if there was a difference), so little time...
Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Nov 05, 17:52
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... The last cogent moment I had was in 1982 and I was Bruce Boxleitner, giving Jeff Bridges a run for his money...
... when the MCP absorbed you and you've been trapped in the Nikos-verse ever since? Oh, sorry, that's "TRON-verse". Just similar in their sense of impending doom and frustrations.Statistics: Posted by pj — 2015 Nov 05, 17:11
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Don't fall into the same "trap" I did.
Did you fall into a VM and become trapped in there too? You should have noticed that every cinema was showing The Matrix and taken that as a hint that something wasn't quite kosher and the universe was trying to give you a hint about how to save yourself. For example, if every cinema were showing On Golden Pond that just would have been the usual nightmare about ageing; "Jean de Florette" == nightmare of hunchbacks; "Any Given Sunday" == a world where Rugby has gone awry, etc.Every waking moment is like that for me now. The last cogent moment I had was in 1982 and I was Bruce Boxleitner, giving Jeff Bridges a run for his money...
Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Nov 05, 15:48
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If you want to verify or test stuff in a safe manner, I suggest using VMWare virtual machines with disabled network adapters, no shared folders and no shared clipboard, otherwise infections can escape virtual environments just like they would spread on an unsecured network.
Don't fall into the same "trap" I did. 
These are just nightmares from the unfathomable psyche of Nikos.... sure enough last night I had yet another nightmare (as in bad dream)...
Nothing he mentioned is real. This same statement will sometimes also apply to his "solutions" to bug fix requests.
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PJ in FL
Statistics: Posted by pj — 2015 Nov 05, 15:14
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if I had a therapist I would have asked for a lexotanil prescription to calm down my sleep
Statistics: Posted by nikos — 2015 Nov 01, 06:29
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It is still a little too complex and fiddly for pedestrians so I would never recommend it, but I primarily use it for querying/blocking unexpected outgoing connections to the internet by applications which have no need to phone home or anywhere else. If nothing else, it has a handy built-in Sandbox feature (one of the best free ones) for extreme testing conditions, where even image backups fear to tread (exclude access to all local drives, etc).
MWB is safely relegated to run-on-demand status, and despite my far-and-wide browsing-habits to parts unknown, and downloading half of the pirate bay, I've (rather disappointingly, from an entertainment point of view) never caught a thing.
Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Oct 20, 06:34
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I used Comodo for a while in the noughties, on XP. My memory is that its footprint was huuuge, it frequently BSOD'd, it demanded a lot of care and attention. And I was forever installing new versions which would break things that worked last week. When it comes to testing nikos is NASA compared with the Melee crew. After a while I gave up on it, and switched to Online Armor (IIRC it's now in the Nod32 Suite) it wasn't as bad footprint and crash wise - but I spent just as much time managing (baby sitting) it, more than I spent doing real work. In my mind in Comodo, Online Armor and POS are synonymous. I don't recall any of them ever detecting anything - good or bad - but nor does anything else 
One of things I like about MSE/MWB is that they have a small footprint, require very little care and attention, and they certainly don't nag me. If you want to be nagged then try enabling UAC and SmartScreen.
I have MWB for its PUM and PUP detection feature. The occasional 3 sec silent, unobtrusive false alarm notification is a price I'm willing to pay.
Comodo - swat that fly, slay that dragon and kill that wumpus
Statistics: Posted by RightPaddock — 2015 Oct 20, 02:05
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(Just to show that I'm not completely nuts, I should point out that I use Comodo Security [Firewall, et al], and that has a similar module that does the same thing as MWB Web-Protection - except Comodo's does not fire-off a hundred false-positives every five minutes (whence browsing about the Slavic-Orient Express), so I am far more likely to take it seriously when it does actually give a real web-warning. MWB is way way way too nanny-ish, so it's impossible to take seriously. So, one turns it off. Then the programme incessantly tells you that you turned it off, and you can't turn that off. Madness.)
(And as much as I appreciate decent vintage English sports cars, I'll always supplicate first before a Ferrari, and [what appears to be] a silver '62 Lotus second [if said ferrari is unavailable].
But I could be wrong about the year. T'was before me father forgot his own pretend-condom, t'was. Back when men were men and cars were bloody proper. 
)Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Oct 19, 22:19
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Statistics: Posted by RightPaddock — 2015 Oct 19, 21:46
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Your mileage probably varies due to the back alleys in which you lurk...
Absolutely! I make no secret of the fact that I will torrent everything in sight (how else can you experience the real world, yet to spend your youth dancing with painted ladies of the night?). But that's exactly my point - sure someone somewhere has downloaded a dodgy copy of Windows from the Pirate Bay, but my contention is that MWB bans the entire domain (not even an attempt at a subsection), so apparently all music, all films, all ebooks, etc, etc, etc - none of which are executables (and if they were as spoofing they don't work anyway so the community regulates it).In other words, the extent of their "online protection" amounts to the same irrational censorship that led to the Marquis de Sade or Oscar Wilde having some minor legal difficulties with their books. It's opinionated rubbish based on nothing, masquerading as an authority by prancing about the place screaming "fear in the name of safety" and abusing its great (and well-deserved!) reputation for the file-based protection at the same time. In real life, that's something to be ashamed of, but on-line, it's what apparently passes for virtue, in the absence of the real thing.
And if you waste your time defining "exceptions" for every Russian, Chinese, Malaysian et al site you want to visit, it's funny how the next month they "conveniently" find some excuse to wipe those user-exceptions due to "important signature updates".
I assumed at first that their little web-browser plugin thingy actually did something useful (such as scan your downloads or look for malicious javascript) - but no, it's just another web-censorship tool. Apply the phrase "our patented technology" to toilet roll and you're still only left with tissues on a stick - no "technology" involved.
Like I said, for offline protection they can't be beat (and they play well with others, which is always a good sign) - but online they're nothing but smug self-serving wasters in my view.
Hence, I gave them my 20-quid for a license out of 50% respect, but would never ever subscribe to the non-functionality it purports to give me. (Yes, continuous disc-scanning is all very nice, but it too is unnecessary at the end of the day.)
All that being said - what I object to most is that despite years (YEARS!) of user-requests on their forums to be able to simply switch off the "web browsing nag" when you disable that module, all they do is sit there and sanctimoniously peep "no, we know better, so stop asking".
Wasters.
Rant-over!
(For now. 
)Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Oct 19, 12:30
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nikos - I'm sure your right about totalcmd.net, its often the advertisers. But as I just indicated I very rarely get those messages from MWB. I was surprised to see it here, especially since I came via your 'who needs antivirus' blog post
As you suggested a lot of malware comes via email, but not only from junk mail. I have deloused several systems, including two of those OSX systems I mentioned, where the malware came from a known sender. I forget what they're called but they propagate by adding spurious attachments to outgoing mail, an eSTD maybe
RP
Statistics: Posted by RightPaddock — 2015 Oct 19, 11:16
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My experience is that MWB doesn't issue many false warnings...
I actually have a license for MWB, but only use the free-version precisely because their "web browsing" nonsense does nothing but issue false-positives by blackguarding whole domains based on rumours and spurious reports. And if you turn off their over-presumptuous module, you can't turn off the biddy warnings that you are "unprotected".Their file-based product is excellent, but their web-based one is complete nonsense. (What is intended to be taken as online "scanning" is no such thing, all it does is look at your destination page and then report that "a friend of a friend of my dead granny said this was a bad place, so obviously it must be true." Rubbish. Like I said, Offline functionality: some of the best there is; Online: a joke.
The phrase you originally wrote "Then last night I had a nightmare; while working on my computer, I noticed..." is more of a semantic thing than a phantasmagorical one in English - I don't know anyone who would read it as you (apparently) intended. People referring to their normal everyday endeavours as "nightmares" has become so commonplace that it's no longer useful as a literary device.Do you understand what a dream of infection is?
Must try harder.
Statistics: Posted by Kilmatead — 2015 Oct 19, 06:37
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