dude341 wrote:

I have a Win 7 virtual machine now, which will be useful for testing programs that could possibly contain malware - unfortunately it's only the trial version of Windows meant for testing Internet Explorer (you can download it on Microsoft's site), so I'll have to use snapshots in VirtualBox but it's still cool.

I don't know how to say this, but if you go to a website called getintopc.com , allegedly you might find some software that ,may or may not be a windows 7 All In One ISO that may or may not also contain a Cracking tool to get a “genuine” install of windows 7

Hans5958 wrote:

DaEpikDude wrote:

i have a mac




so yeah

mac sucks, use windows linux




ok no

meh. If you can get from CeX a cheap Mac mini of Mac pro (these are really cool) they are good for iMovie. i honestly think its the best non professional video editor. kinda like windows movie maker but with green screen and other great stuff

FakeOS wrote:

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I'd rather use official Microsoft software, not stuff from random sites

FakeOS wrote:

meh. If you can get from CeX a cheap Mac mini of Mac

CeX sell fake packaging
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FakeOS wrote:

dude341 wrote:

I have a Win 7 virtual machine now, which will be useful for testing programs that could possibly contain malware - unfortunately it's only the trial version of Windows meant for testing Internet Explorer (you can download it on Microsoft's site), so I'll have to use snapshots in VirtualBox but it's still cool.

I don't know how to say this, but if you go to a website called getintopc.com , allegedly you might find some software that ,may or may not be a windows 7 All In One ISO that may or may not also contain a Cracking tool to get a “genuine” install of windows 7

Why you need go to getintopc.com where you can get free ISO's from Microsoft (not including license key of course)

I only recommend giving viruses to people that destroy their data and computer when they are hackers/criminals so then the police will pay u




Does the police really pay you for that?

donutmaster400 wrote:

I only recommend giving viruses to people that destroy their data and computer when they are hackers/criminals so then the police will pay u




Does the police really pay you for that?

No… That's a bad idea.

How?

*cough* Sonic Gather Battle

It was all because the creator didn't want his sprites ripped. What an idiot.

Hahaha, you n3wbs talking on how to avoid viruses. I run MINIX 3 >

project124 wrote:

Hahaha, you n3wbs talking on how to avoid viruses. I run MINIX 3 >

And guess what? All operating systems can get viruses! Yay!

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:

*cough* Sonic Gather Battle

It was all because the creator didn't want his sprites ripped. What an idiot.

Yep, heard about that. The creator of the rubbish fan game should be arrested, unfortunately, he is very anonymous and apparently lives in Japan, so it will be hard find out who is behind it.

Whoever said that Macs don't get viruses are very obviously trying to boast by falsifying information. There are several viruses, like the Fake Flash Player virus and Mac Defender that are both known trojans. Linux and UNIX based systems are also known to harbor viruses on occasion, especially the Raspberry Pi if it isn't secured properly (e.g. changing password from ).

tomrow wrote:

Whoever said that Macs don't get viruses are very obviously trying to boast by falsifying information. There are several viruses, like the Fake Flash Player virus and Mac Defender that are both known trojans. Linux and UNIX based systems are also known to harbor viruses on occasion, especially the Raspberry Pi if it isn't secured properly (e.g. changing password from

raspberry

).

In fact, I have never dealt with a major virus on Windows. I have dealt with some really annoying viruses such as Amazon Assistant (which re-installs itself, very annoying stuff to remove as it isn't even in some of the best security suite's databases), but nothing serious enough to make the computer unusable. For me, a new Windows PC takes years to get a virus. On my Mac though, it took 4 days after I got it to get a virus, and it was really bad. My homepage was hijacked to some random generic search site and every-time you clicked a link, a pop-up would appear along with the link you clicked. Every. Single. Link. The internet was literally unusable. It was impossible. I have never dealt with a virus this serious before. The fake pop-ups were for random news websites and download links to other malware such as MacKeeper (who guesses that this malware and MacKeeper were made by the same people?) However, despite this pop-up mess, I was able to download an antivirus and cleaned my Mac. I have no idea how it happened, but to me, this makes me think Windows is more secure. I remember once I went somewhere and they had Macs you could use, but there was some odd malware which made every link on the internet point to Apple's homepage and Safari was not able to be closed.

I haven't heard of that one before… By the way, have you heard of the Elk Cloner virus? According to Wikipedia, it it is the first known virus to infect Apple devices in the wild. It affected Apple II computers by messing with the boot program on floppy disks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner

dude341 wrote:

tomrow wrote:

Whoever said that Macs don't get viruses are very obviously trying to boast by falsifying information. There are several viruses, like the Fake Flash Player virus and Mac Defender that are both known trojans. Linux and UNIX based systems are also known to harbor viruses on occasion, especially the Raspberry Pi if it isn't secured properly (e.g. changing password from

raspberry

).

In fact, I have never dealt with a major virus on Windows. I have dealt with some really annoying viruses such as Amazon Assistant (which re-installs itself, very annoying stuff to remove as it isn't even in some of the best security suite's databases), but nothing serious enough to make the computer unusable. For me, a new Windows PC takes years to get a virus. On my Mac though, it took 4 days after I got it to get a virus, and it was really bad. My homepage was hijacked to some random generic search site and every-time you clicked a link, a pop-up would appear along with the link you clicked. Every. Single. Link. The internet was literally unusable. It was impossible. I have never dealt with a virus this serious before. The fake pop-ups were for random news websites and download links to other malware such as MacKeeper (who guesses that this malware and MacKeeper were made by the same people?) However, despite this pop-up mess, I was able to download an antivirus and cleaned my Mac. I have no idea how it happened, but to me, this makes me think Windows is more secure. I remember once I went somewhere and they had Macs you could use, but there was some odd malware which made every link on the internet point to Apple's homepage and Safari was not able to be closed.

I'm pretty sure it's more common to get a virus on Windows though. I haven't ever gotten a virus on my mac. I have a windows computer now and it crashes way more. My mac broke but that's because I messed with the keys. I was a kid when I had the mac.

donutmaster400 wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's more common to get a virus on Windows though.

That might be affected by the fact that so many people have windows PCs, and that they're generally seen as the “default” (AKA more likely to be used by inexperienced PC users).

How to decrease your virus risk to 10%: Stop using Windows.

Anyway, who reads Malware Wiki? It's quite informative.

dude341 wrote:

project124 wrote:

Hahaha, you n3wbs talking on how to avoid viruses. I run MINIX 3 >

And guess what? All operating systems can get viruses! Yay!

Not if nobody uses the os >

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:

How to decrease your virus risk to 10%: Stop using Windows.

Anyway, who reads Malware Wiki? It's quite informative.

Haha, funny, funny, how about:

dude341 wrote:

tomrow wrote:

Whoever said that Macs don't get viruses are very obviously trying to boast by falsifying information. There are several viruses, like the Fake Flash Player virus and Mac Defender that are both known trojans. Linux and UNIX based systems are also known to harbor viruses on occasion, especially the Raspberry Pi if it isn't secured properly (e.g. changing password from

raspberry

).

In fact, I have never dealt with a major virus on Windows. I have dealt with some really annoying viruses such as Amazon Assistant (which re-installs itself, very annoying stuff to remove as it isn't even in some of the best security suite's databases), but nothing serious enough to make the computer unusable. For me, a new Windows PC takes years to get a virus. On my Mac though, it took 4 days after I got it to get a virus, and it was really bad. My homepage was hijacked to some random generic search site and every-time you clicked a link, a pop-up would appear along with the link you clicked. Every. Single. Link. The internet was literally unusable. It was impossible. I have never dealt with a virus this serious before. The fake pop-ups were for random news websites and download links to other malware such as MacKeeper (who guesses that this malware and MacKeeper were made by the same people?) However, despite this pop-up mess, I was able to download an antivirus and cleaned my Mac. I have no idea how it happened, but to me, this makes me think Windows is more secure. I remember once I went somewhere and they had Macs you could use, but there was some odd malware which made every link on the internet point to Apple's homepage and Safari was not able to be closed.

project124 wrote:

dude341 wrote:

project124 wrote:

Hahaha, you n3wbs talking on how to avoid viruses. I run MINIX 3 >

And guess what? All operating systems can get viruses! Yay!

Not if nobody uses the os >

I'm sure many people run Minix.