Facebook Sold Me This Antivirus USB

[JordB]

 

We’ve been seeing a ton of ads for the FixMeStick lately, and it sounds like some kind of computer repair cure-all device. Can it really fix viruses and get your old computer running like new?

 

Bootable AV Tools mentioned in this video:

Norton Life Lock Rescue Tools: https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/nbrt.html

Panda Cloud Cleaner Rescue ISO: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/support/card?id=1681

Sophos Bootable USB: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000033912?language=en_US

ESET SysRescue: https://www.eset.com/int/support/sysrescue/?ref=AFC-CJ&attr=100045408&pub=14021947&shop=92X363X025973fe8d0feda1735494d3de9ab35f&utm_source=100045408&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=14021947&cjevent=72a81fd132f011ee83b500fb0a1eba23

Trend Micro Rescue Disk: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_gb/forHome/products/free-tools/rescue-disk.html?PID=6361382&SID=trdpro-ca-3586065792769787000&cjevent=716650c732f011ee83b500fb0a1eba23&cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww

Avast Rescue Disk: https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/securityrescuedisk.html

Avira Rescue System: https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007776058-Create-and-use-Avira-Rescue-System

Comodo Rescue Disk: https://help.comodo.com/topic-170-1-493-5214-Downloading-Comodo-Rescue-Disk.html?af=7639

Dr.Web Emergency Aid Kit: https://free.drweb.com/aid_admin/

Microsoft Defender Offline: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help-protect-my-pc-with-microsoft-defender-offline-9306d528-64bf-4668-5b80-ff533f183d6c

[Gokul_P]

Linus has a 2TB Ventoy drive what kind of iso needs that much space and how many different ISO you can Theoretically fit into 2TB. (Iam pretty sure they just used a fast NVME as a Ventoy disk). Antony should make a simple tutorial on how to use the other tools mentioned in the video maybe start a tech tutorial (Linus tech tutorials)  channel.

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

Facebook ads are always something else 

[kuro68k]

There is one huge flaw with this. Most business machines and an increasing number of consumer ones are encrypted. Bitlocker enabled by default.

 

It can't decrypt those drives.

[Needfuldoer]

Wow, that's actually a lot less useless than I thought it would be. I always expect those things to be pure snake oil.

[m8377]

Fun fact - London Drugs would sell you a virus removal package that included a tech just running malware bytes, FixMeStick and CCleaner, and then up charge if the computer still wasn’t clean.

 

I saw some comments pointing out that people might not be able to change their boot order as newer systems disable usb boot by default. Fear Not! FixMeStick appears as a USB drive in windows with a single EXE file that will attempt to reboot to the usb. It had a 70% success rate and if it failed would automatically open your browser to a help page to walk you through manually opening the boot menu. 

[swimtome]

I would not rely on windows built in backup, at least not without checking up on it every month. 
 

 

I have found multiple times where it could be working for years and then just inexplicably doesn’t copy anything new.  I can completely turn it off, format the backup drive, try to start it again and it says it’s all set up… but zero backups happening. 
 

Obviously  you should always check your backup anyway, but don’t think of Windows’s option as set and forget. 

[dogwitch]

5 hours ago, kuro68k said:

There is one huge flaw with this. Most business machines and an increasing number of consumer ones are encrypted. Bitlocker enabled by default.

 

It can't decrypt those drives.

had a client laptop. the ssd and the ram stick where salvage. but rest of it. was damage to  a point of un salvage. anyhow. i ask the client. did you have a back-up ?

(yes the person said). they let me keep the ram and ssd as part of overall payment for work i did with them. seeing i dod whip the drive. did not need to worry about bit locker.

i normal use those drives and ram sticks as test parts for other laptops.

[Vishera]

The subtitles are messed up,

Someone copy-pasted the whole script to the first few seconds of the video and the rest of the video has no subtitles.

[Birblover12]

I just realized, doesn't this require Secure Boot to be disabled and "Boot from USB" to be selected as a valid option (and preferably the first bootable option in the boot list)? Since it's generally turned off by default from most laptop/PC manufacturers, I'm unsure if someone's grandparents would know how to get into their BIOS let alone configure it. Surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the video.

[klier]

Good luck to grandpa to enter the not so polished boot menu or bios which has different interfaces and different keys to enter on each system, and especially on old machines its not gonna look great

[klier]

On 8/13/2023 at 7:54 AM, Birblover12 said:

I just realized, doesn't this require Secure Boot to be disabled and "Boot from USB" to be selected as a valid option (and preferably the first bootable option in the boot list)? Since it's generally turned off by default from most laptop/PC manufacturers, I'm unsure if someone's grandparents would know how to get into their BIOS let alone configure it. Surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the video.

exactly, most bios/boot menus arent polished at all especially on old systems and they have different keys to enter it