I recently met with a very very unfortunate event. I was out of house and my roomie decided to do a virus scan on the computers. Including my lappy. After a couple of hours when I came back he informed this fact to me with a huge grin on his face.
As I ran to my lappy I knew, my worst nightmare has come alive. All the keygens and patches I collected through out the year was gone. So was the cracker's kit, which contained stuff like olly dbg,w32 dasm etc. Not to mention a couple of brute force softs. My ip and port scanner.
Amidst all the distruction and my undounting desire to ram my roomie's head against the wall, I found myself asking the question I should have asked long ago. WHY ? Why did the AV delete all that ? They weren't infected. They were posing no threat to my computer. And none of them satisfied the conditions required to be termed malicious. And yet it didn't take my AV more than a sec to get rid of them.
The answer was simple. They didn't want me to use them. No one wants you to crack the time period on an ridiculously expensive software. They don't want you open up an exe file and play god with it. And they definitely don't want you to go scan for vulnarability around the net. That's unacceptable.
And to top it all they get to claim "it's for my own safety". It never occured to me that how much control can be infected by using stuff like AV or antispyware and shit. Simply terms the stuff you don't want people using "potentialy dangerous" and everyone will stay away from it. No more keygens, cracks, patches.
They get to put us in a leash called the Anti Virus. And guess what "It's for my own good."
The leash called AV
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[quote="DrVirus"
The answer was simple. They didn't want me to use them. No one wants you to crack the time period on an ridiculously expensive software. They don't want you open up an exe file and play god with it. And they definitely don't want you to go scan for vulnarability around the net. That's unacceptable."[/quote]
I am some what confused. Are you talking here about the AV people or your roomate.
Any way none of the files are really gone. The AV probably moved them over to the quaranten. They should still be there. Next time though have them in a password protected file or even better in an encrypted volume.
The answer was simple. They didn't want me to use them. No one wants you to crack the time period on an ridiculously expensive software. They don't want you open up an exe file and play god with it. And they definitely don't want you to go scan for vulnarability around the net. That's unacceptable."[/quote]
I am some what confused. Are you talking here about the AV people or your roomate.
Any way none of the files are really gone. The AV probably moved them over to the quaranten. They should still be there. Next time though have them in a password protected file or even better in an encrypted volume.
We will either find a way, or make one.
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DrV,
I can almost agree - there is a corporation/government conspiracy - they want to fix the problems of society by hiding or even completely getting rid of information. Like you said, you can learn a lot about virus and malware by taking it apart. They know this, and they figure to get it out of your hands. Soon, ISPs will be ordered to block file types or keyworded files from reaching you. It'll be sanitized, and you'll grow to be a nice citizen that follows orders well.
DNR
I can almost agree - there is a corporation/government conspiracy - they want to fix the problems of society by hiding or even completely getting rid of information. Like you said, you can learn a lot about virus and malware by taking it apart. They know this, and they figure to get it out of your hands. Soon, ISPs will be ordered to block file types or keyworded files from reaching you. It'll be sanitized, and you'll grow to be a nice citizen that follows orders well.
DNR
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He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in Darkness, and Light dwells with him.
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in Darkness, and Light dwells with him.