Antivirus Guide & User Reviews.

[RumbaMon19]

Ive recently come to understand how antiviruses work, most of them use a library called Yara, the antivirus is just a front end to use it and the virus definitions are just regular expression type filters over a hex code to filter out things.
Thats the reason, why so many no name antiviruses have popped up in the last few years, because creating an antivirus isnt a terribly difficult thing to do

Yup, exactly the reason for pitambri antivurs(pronounce that way)

also, remeber that advert that used to come in digit at last page, NVAV, something in the lines of India Antivirus.

 

[quicky008]

Gdata claims they were the very first company to make an AV software in the world-apparently their firm is based in Germany!

If its been around that long,i wonder why have i not heard of them earlier.Maybe Gdata is the Quick heal of Germania !!

 

[vidhubhushan]

Strange, I download a lot of videos & occasional software but rarely gets a false alert from avira.

it was specifically for rar files and videos downloaded through idm. rar files when extracted were clean. it didn't give any alarm on any of those files. for videos, it raised an alarm for any part only, not the whole video. this happened many times so i started checking it on another anti virus but that said it was clean. then i finally removed it second time. don't know why it was so angry with me.

 

[whitestar_999]

Gdata claims they were the very first company to make an AV software in the world-apparently their firm is based in Germany!

If its been around that long,i wonder why have i not heard of them earlier.Maybe Gdata is the Quick heal of Germania !!

Yes I have heard of G-data first back in 2006 along with avira as topmost German AV companies. Though world's first commercial AV title goes to McAfee.

 

[quicky008]

too bad Mr McAfee ended up dying-despite all his notoriety,i kind of liked him.

 

[RumbaMon19]

Uncle McAfee’s wild ride, from narcos to tax evasion.

 

[vidhubhushan]

still mcafee comes preinstalled on many laptops

 

[Desmond]

Because Intel owns McAfee and they do the sale and marketing of it.

Uncle McAfee’s wild ride, from narcos to tax evasion.

The very definition of swag.

 

[vidhubhushan]

ok. i didn't know that. thanks.

 

[RumbaMon19]

Because Intel owns McAfee and they do the sale and marketing of it.

and thats the first thing everyone removes when it comes out of the box.

 

[whitestar_999]

and thats the first thing everyone removes when it comes out of the box.

You would be surprised to know why this is not true. Most people actually don't even know it can/should be uninstalled, they think of it as some manufacturer utility.

 

[RumbaMon19]

You would be surprised to know why this is not true. Most people actually don't even know it can/should be uninstalled, they think of it as some manufacturer utility.

Most of the times it is just 1 month ver, so people most probably remove it after it expires, some even purchase and the trick of intel works

 

[vidhubhushan]

You would be surprised to know why this is not true. Most people actually don't even know it can/should be uninstalled, they think of it as some manufacturer utility.

well i know that it can be uninstalled but i didn't from the lenovo laptop i bought 3 years back. it was only changed next year.

 

[whitestar_999]

Most of the times it is just 1 month ver, so people most probably remove it after it expires, some even purchase and the trick of intel works

Again, you would be surprised to know how many people "choose" to keep running its expired version.

 

[RumbaMon19]

Again, you would be surprised to know how many people "choose" to keep running its expired version.

After expiry, it keeps poping up so people get annoyed and they need to go one way, so either they purchase or delete. Yes some people do keep living with that popup , so did i mentioned Most probaby, certainty lies that people may live with it.

 

[kg11sgbg]

You would be surprised to know why this is not true. Most people actually don't even know it can/should be uninstalled, they think of it as some manufacturer utility.

 

[TigerKing]

Can any android or Mobile app access camera, calls, message, files, without showing allowed/denied permission in app's permission settings?
Also root permission granted apps, can access these camera, call, sms permission without asking? While not showing it in app's permission settings?

 

[RumbaMon19]

Can any android or Mobile app access camera, calls, message, files, without showing allowed/denied permission in app's permission settings?

There are many backdoors in android, so there is high possibility.

Also root permission granted apps, can access these camera, call, sms permission without asking? While not showing it in app's permission settings?

Actually yes but no. Once you give root, you give permission to do anything including bypassing permission requests. But no because usually the root manager, has control over what activities can be done. Like superSU used earlier or magisk used now, all have control over it. But even they can be bypassed. So better to buy nokia phone and not run any jar file on it. Or buy a telephone but make sure the line is not tapped.



Regarding surveillance, IMO in a country like India, nothing much can be done. Here most of the "youth" activists have actually done bad things and had links with many terrorist orgs. But again, not all are like that. There are many who want to do good.

This is helpful in case suppose some country sends some spies in the form of activists, it can be troublesome. There are many who play the journalist/activist card when they are caught doing some bad shit.

 

[kg11sgbg]

All of us are under surveillance. No where to hide. As our lives are connected to the informational web,so do the govt,corporates,companies,
hackers, keep a spider eye upon us,just waiting to jump when the time comes.
You need to get out of the grid...to remain anonymous(which is near to impossible for leading our so called natural lives).

AGAIN,NO WHERE TO RUN...NO WHERE TO HIDE...

 

[RumbaMon19]

Well we can make someone anonymous.

But it is only possible till he doesn't have any account on any social media. Now most of us have an account there so nothing can be done.

Even a new born baby has birth certificate so even that is not anonymous. Only way to remain anonymous is secretly go to sentinel island and live there without getting killed.