No, no, no. If you are infected with deep malware, you do not go whining to some dude's Internet forum with a request for help. You run DBAN on your system's disks. Then you enter the combination to your fireproof safe, extract your OS and backup media, and start from scratch.
That's what my Grandma does.
There are two problems with your approach.
Most users will read what you wrote and ask "What the hell is he talking about?"
Second is that most everyone who does what you demand isn't likely to have the problem in the first place.
My backups are similar to yours, except I have multiple. I take the added measure that anything critical is not on my Windows machines. No personal information, or cards, and even the emails on it are throwaway accounts.
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No, no, no. If you are infected with deep malware, you do not go whining to some dude's Internet forum with a request for help. You run DBAN on your system's disks. Then you enter the combination to your fireproof safe, extract your OS and backup media, and start from scratch.
That's what my Grandma does.
There are two problems with your approach.
Most users will read what you wrote and ask "What the hell is he talking about?"
Second is that most everyone who does what you demand isn't likely to have the problem in the first place.
My backups are similar to yours, except I have multiple. I take the added measure that anything critical is not on my Windows machines. No personal information, or cards, and even the emails on it are throwaway accounts.
I check my Wireshark lo
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I check my Wireshark logs a lot too. Probably 1 out of every 500 users will do that sort of thing.
I would bet that's closer to one in every 500,000 users. Even security researchers don't do that (of course some do).
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I check my Wireshark logs a lot too. Probably 1 out of every 500 users will do that sort of thing.
I would bet that's closer to one in every 500,000 users. Even security researchers don't do that (of course some do).
I suppose some would call me paranoid, but I just kind of enjoy it. And people would be surprised at what they find.
It all started when I was having issues with brittle networking software coupled with bad documentation. Then I got hooked.
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