Linus visits the SKETCHIEST sites on the Web - Bitdefender Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,974 words · ~9 min read
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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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