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over the last few years there's been a let's call it a trend among computer

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enthusiasts to no longer use protection

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and i've definitely changed my habits as well

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and for every day that might seem okay but you get outside

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your comfort zone every now and then you know you go someplace you've never been

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before or someone you don't know messes with

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some place that you used to be comfortable in and before you know it you're lost and alone

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and everybody wants your bits

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which is why bitdefender

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reached out to sponsor this video about

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their security software and the role

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that security solutions play in 2018. in

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fact they're so confident about their

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role that they've got something planned for the end of this video

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spoiler alert it's a

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okay so first things first um

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why bitdefender i'm pretty sure that i'm

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on the record saying that i don't use antivirus software on my

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personal machine anymore i mean it's not that i don't care about my security i do

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use security software here at work we've got a site-wide license and i do use it

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on relatives and friends machines it's just that for myself i found that

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common sense and reasonable precautions are good for most

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things and then what i'll do is i'll just roll

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out a sacrificial virtual machine when i need to do something a little sketchy

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like let's say i need an iso for an old version of Windows or something

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although that is horribly inconvenient for most people and Anthony who actually

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worked on writing this video has seen plenty of cocky folks like me taking

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down a peg at his old pc repair job where they recommended bitdefender and

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on that subject um the channel you're watching right now

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was actually hijacked when

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i clicked on something i shouldn't have got a key logger and they took away the

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account that happened probably about six or seven years ago so this is one of

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those do as i say not as i do types of things anyway hot off winning product of

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the year and consistently being at the top for security bitdefender came to us

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with a challenge break our protection

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clearly they don't know who they're dealing with but before we go about testing that

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let's break down some of those reasonable precautions that you and

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you and everyone you know should be implementing regardless to prevent your

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data from getting lost via an infection or worse

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first of all keep local backups and raid is not a

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backup of all critical data this lets

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you get back up and running more quickly in the case of

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a drive crash or if you get hit by ransomware which

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yes is still going strong not to mention is getting more sophisticated all the

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time as it happens bitdefender can actually protect important folders

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wholesale and behaviorally protects everything else against even zero days

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that haven't been patched yet and this is before the malware has a chance to

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encrypt anything so this at minimum saves you from having to restore from

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your backups and at worst having to pay a ransom to

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maybe if they actually go through with their word i mean remember these are not the

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most um up and up folks to maybe get your

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college thesis or your vacation photos back

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none of that though will save you if the building is on fire so you should also

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keep an off site back up these days cloud storage services dominate this

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space but you can also accomplish this by just keeping a backup drive in a

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separate building like a friend's or your parent's house

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now back to that common sense theory of personal cyber

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security that essentially boils down to

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three important points one keep everything up to date at minimum

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stay on top of your security updates number two

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keep your stock protection enabled this acts as a

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better than nothing last line of defense once something is on your pc which

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brings us to three don't download stupid stuff

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but i mean stupid's not really a fair word for it because as easy

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or common sense as some of these things might be for you it's not necessarily

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common sense to people who don't live and breathe tech every day and

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furthermore it's not that uncommon for popular

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websites to become targets of poisoning attempts by hackers and we've actually

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had additionally some very convincing phishing scams roll into our inboxes

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that appeared to be internal mail from

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other people who work here and these are both things that bitdefender offers

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proactive protection against i mean i'm sure that you guys all know

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someone you know who they are who downloads anything

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with a shiny button so why don't we go

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ahead and watch the rest of this video

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from that perspective so Anthony has provided me

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with a handy-dandy list of skeezy sites

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that i can visit and i've got a virtual

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machine that is protected by bitdefender up here

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my mandate is to go to all of these sites

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follow any link that crosses my path and click on basically every ad also i'll be

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installing some apps just clicking next through the installers without checking

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to see what they're putting on my system

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if my sister's watching basically i'm channeling you

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alright so right now we're not in autopilot so it's

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going to give me notifications for pretty much everything that happens this

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is total security so this is their top of the line anti

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bad stuff protection it's been a long time since i've gone to a sketchy site

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what the heck is this steve mike

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fireforce dot info

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weird yeah no internet's working no i wonder

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if that one's down

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dbsa-dream.com to be very clear we're not recommending you go any of these

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places bitdefender blocked this page oh so is

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it actually blocking content from the page too it could be yeah huh all right

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laro dimas

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how are these not loading

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so even my browser doesn't like this one you know what

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why was i using chrome in the first place

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huh Anthony none of these pages are working

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wait oh it's a sketchy redirect maybe

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these are some friends that i can talk to oh i won because there's no real

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domains on oh better pixelate that

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Anthony were you browsing these sites at work i

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gotta find some stuff to download here that sounds pretty sketchy

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is this one down too skewerwill.com

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visit the site oh these sights are so slow

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all right we found some of them that are still up

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so i think i would like some free video game

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what is when.com here our zoom driver update that sounds pretty good

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meanwhile let's go to cinehe.com this looks perfectly legitimate it's

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just running off youtube activate your free account 256-bit ssl

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encryption you are safe i don't have like a fake credit card to give them

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yeah sure here we go 50 euros a month yeah no

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driversupport.exe that seems good yeah

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okay with active optimization

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it's okay well while that's running let's find some other stuff here's an ad for adobe this looks like

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it may actually be a real thing is is torch bad

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it's adware it's hardware okay what do i care where the publisher is yes

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the ultimate best site is to watch free movies okay so that game just didn't

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seem to actually do anything active optimization

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do i have to actually buy something to get infected by this oh my god we need

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something a registry optimizer quick easy and safe

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start scan 24 items repaired what does that even

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mean nothing free make video converter

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yes install all the things google docs for dummies

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these aren't even downloads these are just like stupid clickbait lists

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okay so this is just junkware

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oh hey something finally tried to screw us

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freemake video downloader tried to make a change to a file in a protected folder

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and was blocked and the program crashed

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so we found out why it seemed like it was impossible to infect the computer we

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went into the notifications for bitdefender and it's blocking the sites

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with malware on them and in the warnings tab we've got the junk that we just

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installed so i guess if something falls into the

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fishing fraud or malware category then it's insta-blocked and if it's

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potentially unwanted and not malicious it just warns you about it

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okay no maybe i'll just turn it off for a

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little bit is there a way to turn it off

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here we go all right

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all right advanced threat defense off off off

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off okay come on

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yes we are providing all the administrative access you need permit

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no threat move to quarantine how did it do that

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how did it do that i want to get jiggy with some infected pages here

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i'm trying so hard to install garbage

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detected threat is being disadv even if i try and turn it off

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it's still working so overall we found this exercise both

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frustrating but then also reassuring

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because initially i thought it was basically impossible to infect a

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computer these days no matter what kind of websites we tried to go to

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or what we tried to click on it had been quietly keeping us from actually getting

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infected with anything um they've got a couple of different

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modes so they've got both a game mode and a movie mode which you can check out

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in the dashboard and they have been found consistently to have among the

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best detection rates in the industry according to av comparatives and av test

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so there you go guys

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most of us like me and Anthony and you

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the one who's watching this are not gonna do this kind of thing on a daily

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basis although you know probably more often than we

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might like to admit we do end up on somewhat sketchy websites but we all

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know someone who does frequent free tv

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sites or you know registry repair application sites and does fall for

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online scams and that's where bitdefender really comes into its own

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because you can install it for them and then not have to deal with the fallout

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you know three or six months down the line and speaking of six months as luck

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would have it exclusively for our viewers bitdefender is giving away a

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six-month subscription for new users so give it a try and if you're the family

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tech support guru maybe don't install it on your own pc necessarily install it on

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a loved one's computer set it on autopilot and then reduce the number of

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support calls that you have to deal with so thanks for watching guys if you just

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