How can be a file/virus a script? Check this software, open with it files and you will understand.
Now, since we defined a virus, and in agreement with the defintion we have setup earlier, talking about an Antivirus is a bit easy right now.
An antivirus isn't a magic tool, nor a creative machine. An antivirus is taught already what a virus is, through tasting some of the files which the developer has defined them as Infected files. Does this mean any person can develop an antivirus and define "System 32" folder containings as viruses? Yes, but certificates are made for a reason. Each successful and trusted antivirus recieves a certificate from the operating systems if these systems' companies agreed and guaranteed to their customers that the way these antiviruses work is safe and could be trusted. That certificate will allow you dear reader to tell which antivirus is trusted/safe/useful or not.
Now, since we defined viruses and antiviruses I personally can imagine what questions can come to your minds, let's start with uhm... "If I do not install an antivirus, will I be safe?"
Not 100%, but I personally tried before, used my computer for almost a month without any antiviruses activated/installed and then tested a couple of antiviruses along enabling Windows Defender on Windows 8.1, and the surprise was : My device was safe and none of the antiviruses detected any infections.
Was it magic, or I did stick a certain plan which helped me to be safe? The right answer, yup.
So, basically if you are going to risk using a computer without a protection software (AKA antivirus) consider having yourself applying these following tasks:
- I hate saying this, and I hate advicing people to do this, but yes, the usage of an Ad Blocker is very important. Look, if the advertissements we are talking about are Google Ads, make sure that you are 100% safe. Because Google will never EVER push you to click on an ad unless you do it yourself. The ads we gotta be afraid of are the ads which aren't secured. Sadly, ad blockers today can't keep Google ads and block the others, as far as I know, ad blocks carry on blocking all sorts of ads/popups. Popups specially are the main source of viruses, they either install on your device custom start pages, unwanted softwares (Always check your tasks manager if you ever suspected a website, make sure there are no softwares are being installed/using a part of your RAM/CPU silently without being displayed. If the processes' names are unkown, try googling them and reading about these processes. If they aren't related to your work or Windows and its services, shut them down instantly, and better get an Antivirus and start a scan. Ad blocks are actual extentions developed for browers, they are available for most of known browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, Opera... etc.
- Making sure that the website you are accessing isn't a fake page. Basically this is one of the most important tasks that will keep you miles away of risk if you have ever learned how to be aware of fake pages successfully. I'll give you guys an example. You are about to download a file, doesn't matter which type, and suddenly your eye landed on "Mediafire" logo - which is a trusted file uploading website (www.mediafire.com) Is it enough to see the logo? Nope. Professional dudes can tell whether a web page is fake or not via eying the CSS/HTML/Design of the websites. Experienced dudes can tell, but... If we aren't as lucky as these dudes, why not starting from reading the URL adress of the website? if the website contained numbers, or messy characters, make sure to google the original website and look how the real ones look like if you aren't sure about the adress, otherwise my friend you are about to agree on downloading a virus by your own. If you aren't sure about your skills and you do not trust everything on net, don't worry, www.virustotal.com got your back. You can scan any suspected links, websites and even download links in here, VT will tell you whether you're in the right place or not.
- Get yourself a Semi-Antivirus. What's a Semi-Antivirus? Not sure if they call it that way or not, but that's how I chose calling it. Semi antiviruses are useful and amazing tools which proceed quick scans and display trustful details, and to be honest - and I swear this is not an Advertissement lol - the only tool I'm talking about is Zemana Antimalware. This tool will proceed a quick tool and display results in less than 1 minute. I believe it's more useful than Avast Antivirus which is being downloaded by everyone lately without knowing even the point of getting it... lol! Zemana Antimalware in its latests updates began to allow scanning and protection even if the software isn't activated, but will prevent you with using lots of features which I personally see them useful, others might not, don't always trust my opinion lol.. So yes, if you get it, you will be able to scan forever, await for a coming episode of Spread em' Windows, one of the coming episodes will discuss cracks and offer you the safest way to crack programs.
So yeah, these tasks should probably keep you safe, but what is suggested is the next:
- If I was your place, I would get Zemana as a first move.
- Windows Defender in Windows 7 is useless, and since Microsoft is still releasing updates for Windows 8+, these updates include updates as well for Defender, which means, if viruses decided to become worse - which is what mainly happens - Windows update will notify you if there are any new updates related to Defender, get them as soon as possible if you are a Windows 8+ user. If you are still sticking with Seven, just get Zemana, and stick to these from earlier. Avast, Avira, Norton, all these are trash and a waste of time for me, I tired them all and ended up with uninstalling them all as well.
- If you aren't a fan of Windows Updates - as they are annoying - simply disable them.
Hopefully this episode helped you guys and taught you anything new, contact me on Facebook if you got any questions, cya!
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