over the last 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
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