{"video_id":"q7ZYdLCzCJM","title":"Linus visits the SKETCHIEST sites on the Web - Bitdefender Showcase","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":747,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":8.08,"text":"over the last few years there's been a let's call it a trend among computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.0,"end_s":10.559,"text":"enthusiasts to no longer use protection","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.08,"end_s":13.679,"text":"and i've definitely changed my habits as well","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.92,"end_s":19.119,"text":"and for every day that might seem okay but you get outside","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.96,"end_s":22.48,"text":"your comfort zone every now and then you know you go someplace you've never been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.359,"end_s":26.8,"text":"before or someone you don't know messes 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few years there's been a let's call it a trend among computer enthusiasts to no longer use protection and i've definitely changed my habits as well and for every day that might seem okay but you get outside your comfort zone every now and then you know you go someplace you've never been before or someone you don't know messes with some place that you used to be comfortable in and before you know it you're lost and alone and everybody wants your bits which is why bitdefender reached out to sponsor this video about their security software and the role that security solutions play in 2018. in fact they're so confident about their role that they've got something planned for the end of this video spoiler alert it's a okay so first things first um why bitdefender i'm pretty sure that i'm on the record saying that i don't use antivirus software on my personal machine anymore i mean it's not that i don't care about my security i do use security software here at work we've got a site-wide license and i do use it on relatives and friends machines it's just that for myself i found that common sense and reasonable precautions are good for most things and then what i'll do is i'll just roll out a sacrificial virtual machine when i need to do something a little sketchy like let's say i need an iso for an old version of Windows or something although that is horribly inconvenient for most people and Anthony who actually worked on writing this video has seen plenty of cocky folks like me taking down a peg at his old pc repair job where they recommended bitdefender and on that subject um the channel you're watching right now was actually hijacked when i clicked on something i shouldn't have got a key logger and they took away the account that happened probably about six or seven years ago so this is one of those do as i say not as i do types of things anyway hot off winning product of the year and consistently being at the top for security bitdefender came to us with a challenge break our protection clearly they don't know who they're dealing with but before we go about testing that let's break down some of those reasonable precautions that you and you and everyone you know should be implementing regardless to prevent your data from getting lost via an infection or worse first of all keep local backups and raid is not a backup of all critical data this lets you get back up and running more quickly in the case of a drive crash or if you get hit by ransomware which yes is still going strong not to mention is getting more sophisticated all the time as it happens bitdefender can actually protect important folders wholesale and behaviorally protects everything else against even zero days that haven't been patched yet and this is before the malware has a chance to encrypt anything so this at minimum saves you from having to restore from your backups and at worst having to pay a ransom to maybe if they actually go through with their word i mean remember these are not the most um up and up folks to maybe get your college thesis or your vacation photos back none of that though will save you if the building is on fire so you should also keep an off site back up these days cloud storage services dominate this space but you can also accomplish this by just keeping a backup drive in a separate building like a friend's or your parent's house now back to that common sense theory of personal cyber security that essentially boils down to three important points one keep everything up to date at minimum stay on top of your security updates number two keep your stock protection enabled this acts as a better than nothing last line of defense once something is on your pc which brings us to three don't download stupid stuff but i mean stupid's not really a fair word for it because as easy or common sense as some of these things might be for you it's not necessarily common sense to people who don't live and breathe tech every day and furthermore it's not that uncommon for popular websites to become targets of poisoning attempts by hackers and we've actually had additionally some very convincing phishing scams roll into our inboxes that appeared to be internal mail from other people who work here and these are both things that bitdefender offers proactive protection against i mean i'm sure that you guys all know someone you know who they are who downloads anything with a shiny button so why don't we go ahead and watch the rest of this video from that perspective so Anthony has provided me with a handy-dandy list of skeezy sites that i can visit and i've got a virtual machine that is protected by bitdefender up here my mandate is to go to all of these sites follow any link that crosses my path and click on basically every ad also i'll be installing some apps just clicking next through the installers without checking to see what they're putting on my system if my sister's watching basically i'm channeling you alright so right now we're not in autopilot so it's going to give me notifications for pretty much everything that happens this is total security so this is their top of the line anti bad stuff protection it's been a long time since i've gone to a sketchy site what the heck is this steve mike fireforce dot info weird yeah no internet's working no i wonder if that one's down dbsa-dream.com to be very clear we're not recommending you go any of these places bitdefender blocked this page oh so is it actually blocking content from the page too it could be yeah huh all right laro dimas how are these not loading so even my browser doesn't like this one you know what why was i using chrome in the first place huh Anthony none of these pages are working wait oh it's a sketchy redirect maybe these are some friends that i can talk to oh i won because there's no real domains on oh better pixelate that Anthony were you browsing these sites at work i gotta find some stuff to download here that sounds pretty sketchy is this one down too skewerwill.com visit the site oh these sights are so slow all right we found some of them that are still up so i think i would like some free video game what is when.com here our zoom driver update that sounds pretty good meanwhile let's go to cinehe.com this looks perfectly legitimate it's just running off youtube activate your free account 256-bit ssl encryption you are safe i don't have like a fake credit card to give them yeah sure here we go 50 euros a month yeah no driversupport.exe that seems good yeah okay with active optimization it's okay well while that's running let's find some other stuff here's an ad for adobe this looks like it may actually be a real thing is is torch bad it's adware it's hardware okay what do i care where the publisher is yes the ultimate best site is to watch free movies okay so that game just didn't seem to actually do anything active optimization do i have to actually buy something to get infected by this oh my god we need something a registry optimizer quick easy and safe start scan 24 items repaired what does that even mean nothing free make video converter yes install all the things google docs for dummies these aren't even downloads these are just like stupid clickbait lists okay so this is just junkware oh hey something finally tried to screw us freemake video downloader tried to make a change to a file in a protected folder and was blocked and the program crashed so we found out why it seemed like it was impossible to infect the computer we went into the notifications for bitdefender and it's blocking the sites with malware on them and in the warnings tab we've got the junk that we just installed so i guess if something falls into the fishing fraud or malware category then it's insta-blocked and if it's potentially unwanted and not malicious it just warns you about it okay no maybe i'll just turn it off for a little bit is there a way to turn it off here we go all right all right advanced threat defense off off off off okay come on yes we are providing all the administrative access you need permit no threat move to quarantine how did it do that how did it do that i want to get jiggy with some infected pages here i'm trying so hard to install garbage detected threat is being disadv even if i try and turn it off it's still working so overall we found this exercise both frustrating but then also reassuring because initially i thought it was basically impossible to infect a computer these days no matter what kind of websites we tried to go to or what we tried to click on it had been quietly keeping us from actually getting infected with anything um they've got a couple of different modes so they've got both a game mode and a movie mode which you can check out in the dashboard and they have been found consistently to have among the best detection rates in the industry according to av comparatives and av test so there you go guys most of us like me and Anthony and you the one who's watching this are not gonna do this kind of thing on a daily basis although you know probably more often than we might like to admit we do end up on somewhat sketchy websites but we all know someone who does frequent free tv sites or you know registry repair application sites and does fall for online scams and that's where bitdefender really comes into its own because you can install it for them and then not have to deal with the fallout you know three or six months down the line and speaking of six months as luck would have it exclusively for our viewers bitdefender is giving away a six-month subscription for new users so give it a try and if you're the family tech support guru maybe don't install it on your own pc necessarily install it on a loved one's computer set it on autopilot and then reduce the number of support calls that you have to deal with so thanks for watching guys if you just liked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured that is of course bitdefender at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join"}