TheMountain28

What a great year for VPN companies!

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Sorry for the mistake.

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An other problem, related to the update, is also happening.
It affects, Windows 7 and 10, and slows down computers.
 
 
 
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The April 2019, Windows update, KB4493472, caused problems to computers with Windows 7/8 and servers with Windows Servers 2008/2012, with Sophos Endpoint Protection installed (managed by either Sophos Central or Sophos Enterprise Console).
 
It caused the system to freeze or hang upon restart after installing this update. The device doesn't reach the user log on screen.
Working for an IT company selling Sophos Antivirus protections, we had lots of tickets this week ?
 
 
The solution is to restart the device in "Safe Mode". After which, or the update fails and there is a rollback, or it boots in safe mode and you can uninstall that update in command line.
wusa /uninstall /kb:4493472  
 
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4493472/windows-7-update-kb4493472
 
https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/133945
 
 
 
 
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Users of Avast and Avira are also impacted.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-problems-microsoft-blocks-april-updates-to-systems-at-risk-of-freezing/
 
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-recent-windows-update-is-locking-up-some-pcs-heres-a-temporary-fix/

Most ransomware is practically impossible to get off the system, because it literally encrypts your files.  As the files are encrypted, you can't just delete it to remove it, you have to unencrypt the files.
 
In pretty much all cases, it's easier to just format and restart than even bother trying to fix it.
 
As for viruses, it depends on the virus.  I've had self-replicating viruses in the past that if you deleted the files it ran through, a separate part would reinstall it under a different name, turning it into a rabbit hunt.  There were also potentially dangerous viruses in the past which could cause hardware damage.

CCleaner doesn't remove anything, it only deletes temporary files. I wouldn't rely on ComboFix because it usually messes things more than it fixes unfortunately. Malwarebytes is pretty decent at cleaning though.
 
As for Ransomware, only good protection is prevention:
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/free-security-software/
 
CyberReason RansomFree or AppCheck AntiRansom are one of better anti-ransomware tools that detect behavior and protect you in advance. avast!, BitDefender Free and Kaspersky antivirus also work incredibly well against ransomware with their behavior blocker modules.
 
If something sneakes past, you'll have a hard time resolving it. If there is no flaw in the file encryption process, you'll probably be unable to recover files.

Once a case happened with me. Had kaspersky internet security 2018 installed. I had downloaded an email attachment by mistake which infected one file. That one file then went on spreading to the other files on the drive infecting each and everything. Kaspersky as soon as it repaired one file would detect the other file to be infected. Had to download their rescue tool and boot into it to get rid of that file. 

Firefox gained its prime success because they made deal with Google. To have Google search as default engine. After deal ended, they went for Yahoo!. Needless to say community didn't like it. I run highly customized version so I don't know if Yahoo! is still default or if there's some other solution. The search bar doesn't specify search engine. But still uses Google.
 
There's huge difference between browser and search engine. Google is search-engine developer first, browser and other second. They got all their capita from search-engine and ads sold along with it. Mozilla doesn't have corporate backing, haven't had for long time. Not after they were separated from Netscape. They get funding from donations and advertising deals like one they had with Google and Yahoo!. For Mozilla to get such resources that they could do reliable search-engine and not have it fail like Bing!... it might take them as long as it took Goolge to gain its basis. So 5-10 years.

Mozilla is a nonprofit organization with absolutely no incentive to collect or share any of your data outside of the anonymous usage statistics. 
 
Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
 
However, most of their funding comes from partnering with search engine providers. These companies collect your data regardless of which browser you are using.
Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/
 
All of their technologies are open source and can be used, modified, and shared by anyone. You could just download the entire source code for Firefox and look at what all of it does.

Can we trust in mozilla for protect privacy? Mozilla have a kind of searcher like google search?

Who have Firefox? A community? They haves rumors who said Google obtain Firefox, is it true?

Mozilla has gone downhill recently, but if you still wish to use their browser, try Waterfox. Also, for the search engine, use searx or duckduckgo. It takes a lot of resources to make a search engine and they have better things to spend their time on.

That would be pointless, they don't have the resources to do that. If you want a search-engine that respects your privacy, try e.g. Duck Duck Go

Although they've done some strange things (i.e 'Mr Robot' incident), they're definitely a great organisation. If you don't feel 100%, I reccomend using Waterfox.

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/category/trust/
 
They seem pretty active in internet privacy rights activism and pushing for corporate transparency.... so sure?

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So 10/100/1000 means that you will be able to accept at most 1000MB's a second from whatever source it is feeding from. The highest number is the top speed you will be able to actually use while running that device. 
 
I have 1Gb/s internet, so at most, my 10/100/1000 Ethernet port on my PC that is connected directly to my router can accept ~880Mb's a second.

LAN 10/100 Mbps just means that it is able to run at 10Mbit, or 100Mbit.
It will probably saturate all 30Mb of your internet over ethernet, but when you get your next router try upgrading to more modern 10/100/1000, or gigabit ethernet..
 
No idea about wifi as wifi is dependent on what version of wifi it is running at, and not the ethernet ports (wireless g, n, ac, etc)

Hi everyone! I'm happy to join your community. That will be a pleasure to share my knowledge with you! I hope i will learn a lot here. So thanks for any futur help.
 
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