Tried to get to Q posts on my wife's laptop and get this...common?
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Lol "Anti-Virus" is nothing but a virus itself, I'd ditch it
Same as above, can you elaborate? (From genuine curiosity, not trying a setup)
My grandma paid fir an antivirus subscription. It wiped her computer and messed up her user accounts. I spent y hours trying to fix it but only got it partially back.
My mom bought a ‘cleaner’ program. Slowed her computer down to brick status.
I never recommend third party.
There isn't much to elaborate on. By installing any antivirus software, you have just handed over access to every file on that machine - to some randoms from a company you'll never meet. You are then also leaving it up to the software to decide what is a virus and what isn't. Windows is nothing but bloat/spyware anyway...... just look at all that pointless telemetry happening in the background and how it is using your PC to help the folks across the street download their Windows Updates ;) . I use Windows10 LTSC and just kill everything I don't need permanently from install with group policy editor or PowerShell scripts.......including Windows Defender.
Ok, I get what you're saying. Installing a third party virus scanner is something like installing a trojan horse where we can only presume that it is preventing viruses. Not quite what I was thinking, but this does make sense.
My understanding is that, unless you have the 'corporate' version of windows 10 (like what they sell to hospitals so that they aren't violating privacy laws) that the OS itself is constantly sending stuff to MS.
Yeah you've almost got it there fren, I'm using a tweaked version of the Windows 10 OS that they use in kiosks, medical equipment, industrial equipment, digital signage etc. Windows will always be trying to do sneaky things, but less so on Windows 10 LTSC as there is less bloat. With a few tweaks - it's fairly useable.
If your ISP is trying to block certain sites which you prefer to frequent, just make an end run around their DNS border wall.
Either in your computer settings or at your router/modem, you can manually set DNS to one of the free DNS services.
Here is a listing of current publicly available DNS services.
https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062
Welcome in tech censorship 2.5 early beta! I don't know how much they can obfuscate stuffs without a judge warrant, don't know the law there but here they could be sued hard, anyway try to use an outgoing VPN to scramble the requests and switch your modem DNS too (anything but remove the default ones from your ISP) in case you experience issues
Fuck i was writing you an in depth and long explanation of both the DNS / your network and the VPN / ISP side and the pc rebooted for update while i was double checking it
To make it simpler the DNS is what translates a domain like greatawakening.win to an ip address (where the website is located, to explain it, i suggest to compare it to a postal address, you know overall where the place is, but the mail people takes care of taking in charge, routing and moving your stuffs until the destination), if they blacklist there, you may be redirected to an empty page or to one of those 'this website is forbidden bla bla bla' stuffs, to avoid this you can change the address of those 'translating servers', either from your device (but you have to do it one by one and for every network), or from the modem/ router, and it should propagate to the whole network and clients you have there, in the modem usually you find the ones hosted by your ISP, if you swap them with generic and neutral ones, it should help, but that's just one of the levels they may be blocking If they do instead or also an IP block on the network segment of GA or the win community, a VPN is going to be better as it encrypts and obfuscates the traffic, so the ISP will not see the connection to the flagged address, but to the VPN server, as it will act as gateway
Both together should be more than enough, there are other ways in which they can do it, or just to be really honest, they can even breakdown the VPN tunnelling, not easy to do and not faceable by anyone but at ISP level they have some specific hardware that can do even traffic decryption and breakdown, they use this normally on large scale to collect and analyse users, patterns, trends, honeypots, and so on, but rarely against people if not for surveillance mostly
An important advice, if you lookup a VPN, ensure yourself the provider has different entry and exit points, if not, look the next one, that's the key for a working VPN, as if you use a single entry and exit point, the same address is seen from source and target side, and will be the same one at which you connect, and from which it connects to the sites or stuffs you do, this way a simple log makes the VPN useless, as you can cross entry and exit logs for the traffic and match the time
When you have instead different hops, you connect to an address, it routes internally within the VPN provider servers and network multiple times, and it goes out from another address, this way makes tracking much harder as you are bouncing different backbones and they should cross all the address you have been passing by, also, try to look for a provider that ensures 0 logs, they either don't log or keep them for 24h or less for diagnostic purposes
Sorry if i went long, the one i wrote earlier was even longer, but i hope this may give you the idea!
@pedeITA You get today's prize for the longest sentence. Maybe get your "period" key fixed?
Hello VPN!
Nord VPN. $99 for 2 years.
Bridge your modem, use your own router, change your DNS, use a VPN.
Oh and learn linux.
What you do online isn't your ISP's or OS's fking business.
Also if you are using the ISP's built in wireless router they're billing you for it. Once you get your own router you can call them and tell them to stop billing you for it. They'll switch it off from their office.
The problem here is that your computer’s software is configured in such a way that it tells you what websites you are allowed to visit.
Install Linux. That'll fix it.
I wish I could just 'switch to linux' except any business software is windows.
Depends. If it's proprietary or a learning curve keeping you from switching I understand.
Learning curve factor was annoying, but proprietary software was the bigger factor in giving up.
I KNOW there's a whole shitton of freeware that is comparable and sometimes better than the 1000$+ per station software that companies love.
Weirdly it would be beneficial for most companies to use linux as more than the backbone.
OSX is based off FreeBSD. I think that is as close as Apple came. They just keep painting their shit different colours every 11 years and people buy it for some reason I cannot fathom.
Because I started publishing in July 1987 and MS Word was available for Mac but not Windows. I've been stuck with Macs ever since and now I'm a bit old to learn Linux, although tempted.
Avast as a virus protection software is garbage and based on past history may very well still be spying on you and or selling information about your computer usage habits and browsing history to 3rd parties (even paying customers).
Oh and they obviously insert their politics into what they allow you to browse on the internet.
Ditch the crap antivirus. I personally bought ESET when I kicked Avast to the curb. You might not prefer that type of antivirus because there are allot of advanced configuration options which may not be clear for every user.
Good luck.
Here since I don't liked putting things out there without providing the sauce:
Avast caught harvesting user browsing data via its Mozilla extension in 2019.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-removes-avast-and-avg-firefox-extensions
Avast caught spying again in 2020 on users clicks and selling data to a 3rd party company, Jumpshot. Basically your browsing history got sold out. Data sharing agreement was terminated after media reported on the personally identifiable and unencrypted transmission of user browser histories by the Avast antivirus.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-cost-of-avasts-free-antivirus-companies-can-spy-on-your-clicks
Here is another in depth article regarding security/ antivirus firms selling all of your data
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
Browsers are doing this now too. Websites are being blocked as dangerous if they don't tow the cabal line.
MS operating systems are the virus. The things that people call viruses are really just "skins" or "apps" to make the virus appear different from time to time. I kicked MS off all my machines 25+ years ago.
I got that message today when I was looking up something from one of the families from signatures on the constitution. Said follow the family in Q posts and I found and actually bought a magazine today because I saw a family name and when I went to do more extensive research on a person trying to find a family try because the magazine had the words civil war on it but got this website unsafe message. Ahhh remember good old days of parental censorship.? If I didn't know any better....
Yeah it happens... I get it too when I link to a Q site from Google or from Gmail.
I started getting that same message back in late Feb/Early March. I had to turn off the web protection feature to be able to access this site. I couldn't figure out how to white list it so I just leave it off now.
Can you elaborate on that? Most antivirus software really is bloatware, but at least with windows, I've sometimes gone as little as 10 min after internet connection before getting hit with some worm.
Windows 10 comes with antivirus built in and turned on. Installing another antivirus software first involves disabling the one that is already there.
Ok, that's one thing known for a while to not run multiple antivirus systems.
I thought it was something along the lines of how the antivirus creates "sandbox" environments to run code.
If you can't go 10 minutes online without a malware threat, then you're doing something incredibly silly over and over again or never got rid of it in the first place.
In fairness, that was 1 time. Did a clean install, installed all software before giving internet access and within 10 minutes the worm hit, that was windows XP time frame.
Sounds like you have hooked up your computer directly to the Internet, exposing All open ports. Could happen with fibre connections. Most cable and xDSL modems have a built-in WiFi and router with minimalistic Firewall functionality. With fibre, you have to get your own router. At least that is usually the case in my country.
Could also be your WiFi/router configured to allow incoming connections. Most equipment should be configured by default to block incoming connections.
Very likely, I knew nothing about configuring the router. (Now I know it is an option)
Actually, yes, that was windows XP.