/scurv/ - Vidya Pirating

>>1821

I've been thinking of switching off from AVG as well.

I'm a fan of malwarebytes and adwcleaner

used avira for a long time until it started getting bloated, giving me false positives out of the ass and grinding through me hard drive for no reason, then switched to avast and never looked back

Im currently using (as a recomendation from /g/ and their wiki) Comodo Internet Security as well as malwarebytes, havent had any issues yet for the week ive been using them after fucking off AVG for constantly killing me DJMax install, not to mention they both dont randomly throw popups and shit in me face at random times

Common Sense 2015

Ganoo + Loonix (all these GOG classics on Mega inspired me to try PlayOnLinux and I think I got the basics down).

You just have to be careful.

>>1969

Seconding Avast, used it for years and rarely I got false positives. The only bad thing be the popups once in a while in the free version, other than that it's the best antivirus I used.

If you're extremely paranoid perform a virus scan and try and install the game in a virtual machine before doing anything on yer actual machine.

The crack had a virus? Just delete the virtual machine and you're set.

I'm using symantec and so far I haven't had a problem other than false positives I can disect

I use a combination of malware-bytes and Microsoft Security Essentials

In addition to Ccleaner for the registry cleaning.

>>1817

Avoid installers, they be carrying plague rats.

Noscript + adblock, and not downloading/using any site that uses installers that have those shitty "DO ye WANT THIS BROWSER REDIRECT TOOLBAR? YES/YES" bits.

Also an MSE person. Used to do malewarebytes but their redesign made them look like a regular fake AV and it's just unnerving to look at.

>>2195

> Pirating vidya

> Using Linux

Choose one.

I used AVG for a while but decided fuck it because of the "pls stop pirating this" popups along with it just being shit in general. Downloaded Bitdefender and this shit be awesome, also has an optimizer built into it so I don't even need AVG Pc Tuneup anymore either. Plus it helps that I did a system refresh the other day too, pc ran like absolute shit and now it runs fine

Not being an idiot and thinking that Skyrim's install only takes a couple hundred kilo be a good start

>>2174

Which method ye used? last time I tried it only lasted a couple of days until it found out

Windows be self be a virus, so using anti virus be like wiping yer ass while swimming in a pool of fieces.

A simple way to be pirates while having security be using 2 computers at once.

>a powerful botnet machine for windows 8 and games (never check mail or login to any sites using this machine)

>a "clean" low power machine (netbook / 2nd hand thinkpad) using linux/bsd, this machine should be use for emails/financial/banking/diary/notes/school/torrenting

>periodically reformat yer botnet machine (if malware clogged up the system to a point of slowing down)

I've been using this setup for the past 3 years, i get the best of both worlds.

>>1865

I used to have the comodo firewall, another app that was really good until they fucked with it

No idea about that suite ye talk about but iirc what others said it wasn't that good

>>2040

Avast be the best I've used, also it has pirate language option as a plus.

Last benchmarks I saw said Panda has the best heueristics without insane amounts of false positives so that's what I'm using. It fucking re-asks if it's okay for games to connect to the internet every time they update but other than that it's light, quiet, good interface, and hasn't missed anything as far as I can tell.

>>2940

Panda still exists?

BTW what about these tests? can it be trusted? http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

Microsoft Security Essentials + Malwarebytes

The best anti-virus be yer own goddamn common sense.

Everytime ye run something that looks like an executable ye should first check if the source it came from be trust worthy.

Not just .exe, learn some more extensions. Protip: that "jenna jameson.scr" be not a real screensaver.

When you're in torrent sites, check what group released the crack. This days, 3DM and R.G.Mechanics dominate the scene with Skidrow trailling behind. Times change, check everyone in a while what are the players.

And even if it says [3DM] in the torrent title, check the uploader or the comment section.

There's plenty of landlubbers screaming "VIRUS" when their faggy anti virus picks up a keygen.

Now son, there's gonna be times where ye have to take a risk. ye donwloaded somethign from somewhere fishy and ye don't trust it 100%.

Wanna be safe? Get Oracle VM, and learn how to Virtual Machine. Takes only a few minutes, let's ye test stuff really easy.

Yes, ye can slap an anti virus on the VM too, but that won't help with false positives.

For that ye need to know the most important thing: being an antivurs yourself.

Computer slow? Opening links on itself?

Internet speed just plummeted? Watch for this signs. ye might have a virus.

(more on next post)

HELP, I MAY HAVE A VIRUS

Hang on son, don't ye go running off to download 30 anti-virus and making "free scans" on yer computer. They're not free, and they're gonna isntall adware which in me opinion be worse than most malware

Step one: Install Ccleaner. And no, it's not for the faggy "scan" every cabin boy uses.

Look up the Startup section. See if any fishy application be there.

Yes, 90% of the malware nowdays be shitty as fuck. And ye can spot it this easily.

You can also open yer Task Manager (that thing ye use to kill yer browser in a hurry so people don't find out yer sick porn habits**.

Look for any process name that ye don't know. And I mean processes, the other tab idiot.

Learn to check this thing regulary. It's great to spot memory leaks, and locked up shit.

HELP, I THINK I SEE A VIRUS

The process manager should give it's name. Even the location.

If you're a stupid landlubber, ye just deleted it.

If you're a smart Salty Dog, you're yer own goddamn anti-virus.

So you're gonna open "regedit". Just type that in the windows start menu, or find it yourself ye lazy bum.

Now, "F3" and search for the name of the damn thing. Keep pressing F3 until ye find a registry key with it. Should even have the path to it and all.

Found it? Delete the fucker. The resgistry entry I mean.

Search some more. Delete them all.

Now the damn thing won't fire up again.

Kill the process. Now delete it.

Congratulations, ye just did what yer antivirus does, without having to pay 200$ to the greedy company that made the virus in the first place.

Don't deny it, ye know they did, everyone does.

FINAL ADVICE

There's only two more types of Virus ye may find.

Adware be a bit more trickybecause those cabin boys like to play "whackamole" with you. ye delete one, and another pops up.

WHAT NOW?

Quite easy to spot these: you'll find a process running in a folder with a weird ass name. And everytime ye do, it's another diferent weird name.

Something like "c:\Programs\ASdjsdh2039\furry_virus.exe"

And the next "c:\Programs\gkj394dj\funny_vilus.exe"

If you're not as stupid as a Spanish Captain, ye know that something, somewhere be just copying over the original virus over and over again everytime ye delete it.

So ye do what the Spanish did to the Aztecs. ye kill the number 1 fucker first.

It can be another process running. It can be an extra plugin in yer browser that ye didn't install (these one's will check for the virus everytime ye boot the browser again, and create a new one if they don't find it so they're easy to spot).

Sometimes it gets really hard to spot them, so get something called "process explorer".

Really fucking easy to find, it's onlyt a few Kb and helps with a TON of shit.

Specifically, ye want the Search function. Search the name of the current virus. Shoudl tell ye WHO opened it. Aka: the process that be the original number 1 virus.

Protip: if it's yer browser, then it was one of those addons.

Remove them from registry like ye did the others, and then kill, remove it.

Finnaly, here's a bit of wisdom: most virus don't fuck up with yer computer has much as people think. I remove all that do, and if a virus doesn't bug me, it can stay for all I care. If it does something illegal (like making me part of a botnet) it's not me fault, the police can't arrest me. Protip: if you're helping someone to DDoS something and get caught, ye can use this excuse too.

The second type of Virus I meant to talk about was the one's that escape this rule.

I'm talking really nasty shit. Stuff that phlashes yer BIOS and sets yer CPU to burn. Stuff that corrupt yer entire HDD. Stuff that hardlocks ye out of windows.

You'll never see this stuff happen. The people who have the skill to make them do not give a single shit about ye or me. They have real targets to use them.

The people who target ye and me are shitty russian/brazillians 14 year old script kiddies who downloaded a tool or two from the net (and infected themselves without realizing) and are trying to steal yer Steam account.

You don't need a fucking Anti Virus to defend agaisnt them. Just yer fucking brain.

> 3492

That's some good stuff, glad to see some people who know a thing or two, but this stuff won't work on the more persistent bugs, ever run into Sality.Xz or Mohazebat

>>3492

>really nasty shit

Might ye be speakin of Chernobyl (CIH)? That little shite were a pandora's box of PC destruction.

>>3189

I read a few of their reports and it's almost all fluff and scores without context. I wouldn't put too much stock in it.

Malware bytes be pretty good lads, easy to use keys, and then just upgrade to the newer version

Just turn of ye Website alerter when torrenting, it'ds be annoying

>>3517

Never heard of that one. Which I supose it's a good thing.

Then again, we could hop onto Wikipedia and found a plethora of nastier things, I'm sure.

What I meant be that hackers, REAL hackers have better things to do than steal yer steam account. And trust me, if they want to steal yer steam account, they won't need a "virus" or anything of the sort.

It's important t remember that Anti Virus are popular due to 2 things: script kiddies and fear.

Everyone has that distant uncle that one day visited a porn site and his computer had horse cocks as a wallpaper for a week.

So everyone be afraid of porn on the internet literally, any time ye hear normies talking about porn, it doesn't take 10 seconds for them to talk about virus. Or the other way around. Got a virus? Means you've been watching porn.

Script kiddies are countered with common sense. Not with 200$ software that eats up 30% of yer CPU.

>>3406

Do ye audit all the code of every program ye run on Linux?

No?

Then shut up.

>>3748

i did, check mate atheist.

aye aven't used anything for 6 years now an never made contact with any virus. I be kind of worried about a russian using 1% of me GPU to constantly mine dogecoins but tis just the ocean wearing away me ship, a small price to pay for booty lads.

srs

>>3794

Aye. Virus that don't bother ye that much are like Barnacles that cling to yer ship.

They slow ye down a bit, but it's just yer rubbing the crackers back while he rubs yours, know what I am saying?

>>1821

that shit crashed when i alt-tabbed out of some games.

I don't trust it to keep me computer safe.

So I just ran 3 antivirus (avast, kaspersky and fsecure) and 2 antispyware (spybot and malwarebytes) and me PC be clean as a whistle

……….but today I'm having some weird bugs regarding authentication and shit, some https errors in chromium and a NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID error

My owncloud account also had trouble logging in

What the fuck be going on?

>>2040

i vote against avast, it thought that SteamService.exe (the thing that makes steam actually do anything) was a virus and it broke fucking everything and i had to restore from a backup to fix it

>>3896

open up avast

go to settings

pick active protection

customize next to web shield

uncheck enable https scanning

>>3897

that's because it be a virus ye scallywag

>>2644

What be dreamcast

:^)

>>3592

CIH was a mean son of a gun. It would lay dormant on yer computer until 04/26 (date of the Chernobyl disaster), when it would suddenly wake up and attempt to erase any eeprom it found.

mobo? bricked. video card? bricked. hdd? bricked. even floppy or cd drives? well, if ye have to ask…

>>2791

>A simple way to be pirates while having security be using 2 computers at once.

Absolutely sucks that the most 'useful' gaming OS be fucking Windows. I want a dual boot where I can pretend Windows XP can play anything modern. May just be nostalgia talking or I'm used to Linux but I hate using Windows now.

>>1817

GNU/Linux

If ye just _must_ use wangblows, use MSE.

>>3927

>I hate using Windows now

Same here, and I hate even more than a lot of tool I use for work are windows-only so its not like I can just use windows for vidya

I use CyberGhost as a VPN, although there are probably far better ways to do it.

I usually just try and be careful.

I use malwarebytes and superantispyware.

>>1817

I use AVG and Malwarebytes.

Never had a problem.

I have been using Avast for years and never had a problem.

Bump because thanks m80s for the suggestions and others may find it useful.

>>1969

I've been usin' Avast for over 10 years and I have never had a problem with viruses. Avast best.

I've been usin' Kaspersky for a few years now. Occasionally I let me sailors scrub the deck with Malwarebytes. Worked well so far.

Avast and Malwarebytes be yer best bet m8, dont go downloadin seedy torrents, just got for the ones yer fellows recommend

A hearty bump.

>>1817

use proxies…. that and a good firewall be about all you'll really need friend