Malwarebytes or just a good antivirus, but most of all just don't do stupid things.
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Thanks, I had a horrible dream where hacker deleted all my files from my computer and I couldnt do anything lol :(
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Well, you can do an offline backup, good luck hacking an external hd in your drawer
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"There's two kinds of people: those who backup, and those who will."
Even without hackers, it's good to have multiple backups. Hard drives aren't immortal.
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Don't worry, I don't think that somebody like you would be target for hackers.
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It has been winning the best awards every year. Sadly hackers have found a way to breach it by ordering a crate of expensive booze to your address with a stolen credit card and waiting for the evening. I know I would be an easy target for such a hack, wink wink.
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Are you asking specifically about hackers? Or are you asking more generally about best software for computer security?
If you are asking just generally about computer security, you'll get some reasonable suggestions here. You'll also get (and are already getting) a fair bit of "don't do stupid things". I have over 15 years of industry-specific knowledge. It doesn't matter how careful, intelligent, or knowledgeable you are. Everyone is vulnerable. Even I wouldn't use a computer without taking measures to secure it: smart layering of endpoint security solutions (I personally use AV and software I created), ad-blocking in the browser, router configuration and updates (this is a huge and often missed vulnerability), and the below suggestion.
If you are serious about security, my suggestion is to do your internet browsing inside of a virtual machine you have clean snapshots you can revert to. The overwhelming majority of malware/exploits are not designed to escape a VM. A fair bit of the malware actually won't run in a VM at all (in order to avoid being detected by the VMs security companies intentionally leave exposed to discover malware).
Since your VM won't have your sensitive data in it, there will be nothing for the malware to steal/ransom/delete even if you do encounter it. Since you rollback when you are done with your browsing, nothing will linger in memory to gather sensitive data from your future browsing. And since you are running in a VM, nothing will infect your main computer to remain on there indefinitely to do future harm.
It's not full-proof. Nothing short of having no network connection, never plugging anything into your computer, and restricting physical access is. But it's the most security you can get for a relatively small amount of work/inconvenience.
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Actually, a lot of malicious software doesn't trigger until shut down as it'll have the trigger in the startup processes. If you think you've got "a virus" the last thing you want to do is shut down/restart.
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While a significant percentage of malware does persist, in order to persist it already has to be resident in memory in some way. It is possible that the persistent payload may differ from the in-memory component that established that persistence. But if you have the ability to edit the registry/file system to establish persistence, you almost certainly already have the ability just trigger that persistent payload without a restart (the only examples I can think of off the top of my head that don't have the ability are some really obscure privilege escalations accomplished through third-party programs that read from user-writable locations).
Unless you are intending to do in-memory forensics (something that is completely irrelevant to home-users), I'd argue users do not restart their computers nearly often enough. A restart of the computer eliminates any memory-resident threat that doesn't establish persistence. And as I already noted, if malware establishes some form of persistence, it almost certainly already triggered the payload before a restart of the computer.
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I can agree with that. Solid explanation and information.
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Well, I once cured PC from a virus with reset. But it was long ago, in FAT32 times... I visited some strange site and noticed some unusual activity on my PC, I hit reset, and because of unexpected reset my file system had some errors... that were placed right on virus body. So it rebooted, scandisk fixed errors, but virus was unable to start because it was damaged. All I had to do is to remove virus's dead body from startup.
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There is not such a thing like a good program to protect yourself without some action from your part.
Don't download weird stuff from the internet without AV
Don't connect unknown things on your pc
Avoid public or free or easy to crack networks
Connect only to your networks for more security (they are not 100% secure though)
Be careful of phishing mails/attacks
Have strong and different passwords and different emails for different sites
Disable all remote desktop programs when not in use
And still you will not be 100% hacker-proof. Remember that if someone targets you, it is very difficult to avoid him completely.
That does not mean you need to live in fear. Just be careful on the internet and you will be safe most of the time.
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Remember that you might be doing everything right, and your data still gets leaked. So take steps to mitigate harm in case your information does get out there. Don't re-use passwords, don't supply others with more information than necessary and so on. And don't think that just because you're dealing with major corporations, things can't go wrong. Sony thought it was a good idea to save all user information in plain text, including credit card information, in a time when even average Joe on the street knew that such things were a really bad idea.
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Main way for hackers to access your PC is via getting you to run their executable file. Any .exe file (and bunch of others) you launch has full access to your computer. Only launch programs from people/companies you trust. And don't rely on UAC or antiviruses, they can miss it. If you absolutely need to launch program that you don't trust, do it inside a virtual machine. And remember that after running untrusted program inside VM, whole VM becomes untrusted and you shouldn't use any files from inside of it on your main PC.
Other than that, there's not many ways to hack inside your PC, so don't worry.
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Mang, just hack those hackers back! You get hacked, you go out and hack them. You hack their house. You hack their wife. You hack their kids. You hack and hack and hack until nobody in their whole family has any data left at all.
That's how you deal with hackers.
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going back to stone age, definitely unhackable
unless it's life-hack
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What is the best software against hackers?
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