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TerryRohrer
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I have seen a lot of it lately.
Charles West
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I get that popup occasionally. It seems to happen if you used to have a subscription, but I could be wrong.
Mile High Trout
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Nope, never a problem. Not for the past decade.
Mcaffee, Norton, and similar programs are all the same. They load up your computer and registry with dummy entries, then when known exploits show up they land in the place where the dummy entry sits, such triggers the alarms. Due to constant exploits this causes cross over false alarms as legitimate software and various functionality inclusions for various web pages and program functions will also trigger the alarm, even if legitimate. Because at some point somewhere in the past, that same software entry was recognized as illegitimate. This is where day one exploit came into play as over time hackers and scammers found easy ways to mirror dummy entries that made them seem legit.
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We got in w/ initial three subs for fifty a year lifetime. You guys, being late to the party and apparently technically challenged, will have to pay more.
Still worth it though, nothing is better and you'll never deal with exploits again, as long as certain other PC management elements are in place.
Your browser is a big reason why this also happens. If you're using anything microsoft or google such as edge, chrome, or others, you're doing it wrong.
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Firefox from Mozilla. Get to know the about:config menu and you will see a new age in surfing security, control, customization, with a never ending option set for helpful customized add on applications for whatever you may need, wherever you may go on the internet. I use adblock plus free, ublock, privacy badger, and the malwarebytes add on custom designed for firefox which comes with the mwb subscription. Also have anit fingerprint, strict settings, auto clear always, never agree to share location data, auto history erase, auto block password and sharing requests, auto shut down if logging or other security penetrated. Best of all is the amazing utility tools which allow for multiple profiles, backing up profiles for portability or sandbox type applications, and the really comprehensive easy to use bookmarking quick reference programs. You can log in to any given site, email provider, news feed, this site, etc, and automatically block every single pop up and solicitation ad, visual elements, you have the ability to never deal with a solicitation, pop up, banner ad, or annoying visual ever again while online. There are groups out there whom also do one offs like custom ublock script for specific ailments. For example Google started placing this generative AI content response to all searches over their other standard content. Nobody asked for that and for those of us without google accounts, not so easy to turn off. So I just added one little ublock script line into the existing rules which are mostly auto pilot created with simple user intefaces, and voila; No more generative AI results on the google search pages. Simply that easy. You can right click, inspect elements, create block rules, all without having to know script or code. Like if an annoying banner comes up on your favorite site, r click the element, create a block rule, confirm the rule, the banner is gone forever from that page. If you break anything there are simple temp turn off features to get pages working again if you need. Ublock is the little brother to Umatrix, which is total interactive page function control, a real time drainer buy allows you to break pages down to their most simple elements and block everything you don't need or want. Now and then when for rare reasons I have to fire up edge and then just try to surf, it's ridiculous all over the net. Permissions, pop ups, banners, solicitations, tracking utilities, additional visual elements. The internet is unusuable without these tools. Get with the times, they're not that difficult to learn about and because hundreds of millions of people use these tools, there are robust help and forum sites for every single qa or tech assistance request you could dream of.
You may also want to bolster your security by turning off unnecessary services in services menu, just type services in MS, and go to the controls menu. Drop auto and trigger start in favor of disabled settings for anything you're not actually needing to use. Things like remote desktop, xbox, remote integrations, group applications you don't need for individual pc's, telephony, games, etc. All vectors of penetration you don't really need to have running, and if you need them, just drop by to turn them on anyways. Drop down spybotS&D free edition, primarily for the immunization feature, and that's just as good as a million dummy registry entries, because you block things before they have a chance to even get into your registry. The idea of allowing things in, to only have to clean them later is antiquated technology. Instead you block them from ever getting into your browser or on your screen, and then don't worry about anything. Have not had a penetration in a decade or more, and really all there is to do is tweak custom regedit hacks, limit softwares functionality to what I need, track cleaning and defrag now and then which can be set to automatic anyways, a mirror backup every few years. Cake. There is a bing bar regedit alteration which turns off cortana as well as outbound web results integration when you use your internal search tools, so then all you get when you search your pc is an indexed list of content already on your hard drive, with no internet related results. You can pop in numerical sequenses to instantly identify if you've performed an appraisal on that address, etc, and it will call your workfile up from your internal database without any outbound or web hit results. Because come on if we need online searches, we will use our browsers. 10 and later turned our internal index into MS phone home web searches which we don't need integrated into our PC's.
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Get with the times.
Mcaffee, Norton, and similar programs are all the same. They load up your computer and registry with dummy entries, then when known exploits show up they land in the place where the dummy entry sits, such triggers the alarms. Due to constant exploits this causes cross over false alarms as legitimate software and various functionality inclusions for various web pages and program functions will also trigger the alarm, even if legitimate. Because at some point somewhere in the past, that same software entry was recognized as illegitimate. This is where day one exploit came into play as over time hackers and scammers found easy ways to mirror dummy entries that made them seem legit.
Get with the times; Day one exploit protection. Advanced heuristics analysis. Blocking the intrusive elements before your browser can even accept them. Speeds up your computer too.
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We got in w/ initial three subs for fifty a year lifetime. You guys, being late to the party and apparently technically challenged, will have to pay more.
Still worth it though, nothing is better and you'll never deal with exploits again, as long as certain other PC management elements are in place.
Your browser is a big reason why this also happens. If you're using anything microsoft or google such as edge, chrome, or others, you're doing it wrong.
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Firefox from Mozilla. Get to know the about:config menu and you will see a new age in surfing security, control, customization, with a never ending option set for helpful customized add on applications for whatever you may need, wherever you may go on the internet. I use adblock plus free, ublock, privacy badger, and the malwarebytes add on custom designed for firefox which comes with the mwb subscription. Also have anit fingerprint, strict settings, auto clear always, never agree to share location data, auto history erase, auto block password and sharing requests, auto shut down if logging or other security penetrated. Best of all is the amazing utility tools which allow for multiple profiles, backing up profiles for portability or sandbox type applications, and the really comprehensive easy to use bookmarking quick reference programs. You can log in to any given site, email provider, news feed, this site, etc, and automatically block every single pop up and solicitation ad, visual elements, you have the ability to never deal with a solicitation, pop up, banner ad, or annoying visual ever again while online. There are groups out there whom also do one offs like custom ublock script for specific ailments. For example Google started placing this generative AI content response to all searches over their other standard content. Nobody asked for that and for those of us without google accounts, not so easy to turn off. So I just added one little ublock script line into the existing rules which are mostly auto pilot created with simple user intefaces, and voila; No more generative AI results on the google search pages. Simply that easy. You can right click, inspect elements, create block rules, all without having to know script or code. Like if an annoying banner comes up on your favorite site, r click the element, create a block rule, confirm the rule, the banner is gone forever from that page. If you break anything there are simple temp turn off features to get pages working again if you need. Ublock is the little brother to Umatrix, which is total interactive page function control, a real time drainer buy allows you to break pages down to their most simple elements and block everything you don't need or want. Now and then when for rare reasons I have to fire up edge and then just try to surf, it's ridiculous all over the net. Permissions, pop ups, banners, solicitations, tracking utilities, additional visual elements. The internet is unusuable without these tools. Get with the times, they're not that difficult to learn about and because hundreds of millions of people use these tools, there are robust help and forum sites for every single qa or tech assistance request you could dream of.
You may also want to bolster your security by turning off unnecessary services in services menu, just type services in MS, and go to the controls menu. Drop auto and trigger start in favor of disabled settings for anything you're not actually needing to use. Things like remote desktop, xbox, remote integrations, group applications you don't need for individual pc's, telephony, games, etc. All vectors of penetration you don't really need to have running, and if you need them, just drop by to turn them on anyways. Drop down spybotS&D free edition, primarily for the immunization feature, and that's just as good as a million dummy registry entries, because you block things before they have a chance to even get into your registry. The idea of allowing things in, to only have to clean them later is antiquated technology. Instead you block them from ever getting into your browser or on your screen, and then don't worry about anything. Have not had a penetration in a decade or more, and really all there is to do is tweak custom regedit hacks, limit softwares functionality to what I need, track cleaning and defrag now and then which can be set to automatic anyways, a mirror backup every few years. Cake. There is a bing bar regedit alteration which turns off cortana as well as outbound web results integration when you use your internal search tools, so then all you get when you search your pc is an indexed list of content already on your hard drive, with no internet related results. You can pop in numerical sequenses to instantly identify if you've performed an appraisal on that address, etc, and it will call your workfile up from your internal database without any outbound or web hit results. Because come on if we need online searches, we will use our browsers. 10 and later turned our internal index into MS phone home web searches which we don't need integrated into our PC's.
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Get with the times.
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Using Windows defender, nothing extra. Never had a virus or the like. I do allow it to update when it needs to. Using Windows 11. I also don't have a popup problem mentioned in this thread. I have used Firefox as my default browser and Thunderbird for email about ever since they have existed.
In the past when members have mentioned that Norton, McAfee, or whatever reported a problem with a forum page I have done a complete virus and trojan scan of the server. Nothing ever was found. So I came to the conclusion that those programs were reporting false positives.
After all, they have to make people who pay for them think they are getting something for their money.
In the past when members have mentioned that Norton, McAfee, or whatever reported a problem with a forum page I have done a complete virus and trojan scan of the server. Nothing ever was found. So I came to the conclusion that those programs were reporting false positives.
After all, they have to make people who pay for them think they are getting something for their money.
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2002
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- Retired Appraiser
- State
- Florida
Nothing to fix, feel free to take a break if you need to.
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