You should pair MSE with
ClamWin since according to
this article, MSE is just a baseline scanner and should be paired with another
real scanner for lack of the right term. ClamWin is not an active scanner though. It scans the computer when you want it to. You can set it to do so on a schedule from withen ClamWin's options and settings. You
might be able to take it up a notch (a nerdy notch) and invoke its scanning via voice command using a program called
VoiceBot. I use VoiceBot and it's been fantastic to launch my password safe (Keepass), automatically enter my long and complex password, and open. I just say, "password safe" and it'll open Keepass. Though, this is not something you should do if A) your computer isn't encrypted like mine is and B) you don't trust your environment where your computer sits. I also have VoiceBot skip Spotify music with my voice as well as other things that respond via my voice commands. The maker of VoiceBot is Binary Fortress and the first program I used from them was called FileSeek. This program will search for texts
withen files. This has helped me in so many ways it's not even funny. I was able to find specific core code in my website forum software running phpBB, and I used it to find specific code in the uncompiled omni.ja file in my niche browser called Pale Moon which unfortunately doesn't use an omni.ja file anymore. I believe Firefox still does. The omni.ja file allows you to change certain core browser settings. But you have to know what you're doing. The other piece of software I use from Binary Fortress is called Hashtools. Because FileSeek has helped me so much and I liked VoiceBot and how I might use it with some games and Flight Simulator one day, I bought both FileSeek and VoiceBot to support the developers. The great thing about both programs is that they won't set your wallet on fire so to speak in the cost, and it's a LIFETIME license with all future updates. So you realy can't beat it.
Now I have a program here that's pretty damn decent to create macros so that I can automate tasks called
by Jitbit, but it costs $70 for the Pro version which is what you want so that you can compile macros to an .EXE for Windows to fire those off with the Windows Task Scheduler and other programs. In my case I used a program called Yawcam to fire off a Macro upon motion detection from my web cam. It required lots of tuning... in the end, all room activity without me being here meant my computer automatically shut down and since it's encrypted there was no way in hell you could get back in. How I turned that off so that I could get back in my room is classified above TOP SECRET and not for public consumption. LOL! It'd take a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)"]TEMPEST attack to get the very long and complex password committed to memory. All part and parcel to the nerd ethos, yo!
Moving on. To help advance your PC's security, check out the now free and open source program called Sandboxie at Github. You can use that to run your browser in a virtual environment called a sandbox so that
most malicious code stays in the sandbox and can't get on your computer. It will require some know how and reading to set everything up, and all downloads will require the use of the Recover pop up option asking you if you want to store the download on your computer out of the sandbox. This makes sure nothing can sneak by without your approval. I went waaay beyond with my use of Sandboxie to not only tighten the Sandboxie settings, but run Sandboxie in a persistent RAM drive that's emptied on computer shut down and recreated on computer start. The software I used for that is called ImDisk. Another emulation-like software I use that can mount disk ISOs and what not is called WinCDEmu. You right click an ISO and it'll mount in a virtual optical drive found under the My Computer icon or in Winblows 10, in This Computer. I have yet to test WinCDEmu and ImDisk in Winblows 10 however. Now once a disk ISO is opened in a virtual optical drive, you can scan the files from withen the mounted ISO if need be to check for malware. Need to scan a whole Windows or Linux ISO? There you be.
Email security is a whole other thing. Don't download attachments which are VBS scrips, batch files or stuff of that nature, and scan ALL attachments at Virus Total. Not following this and you could set lose what is called a reverse shell and now a hacker has total control over your computer. Depending on what it is you got there, the general consensus is four hits at Virus Total and you toss. If you use the Thunderbird email client or some other email client, turn off the loading of remote content and turn off the parsing of HTML. Emails will look like crap, but it'll be A LOT safer. On a rare occasion an email comes along that's encoded in nothing but HTML ( I freaking hate that!) and you can't read it, then first verify the sender (which requires some know how, really) and if and only IF you trust the sender's email address should you allow the email to have its HTML parsed temporally. After you read the email and no other email, turn off the parsing of HTML again so that you can read other email safely. As an example. If the email is from amazon.com you could probably trust it. If you pay very close attention and it's from aamazon.com or amazom.com or some other very crafty domain, then it's fake so don't trust the email at all. See what I did there? The first domain has two A's. The second domain has an M instead of an N at the end of the word amazon. This is just one example of how phishing and what have you works. There is a program coded in Peril or Python (can't remember) that will help create these lofty domains for this purpose. The code is free and available at Github. So knowing that you know that any skilled hacker or what have you can easily trick someone into thinking their bank account at Chase is over drawn where in the email it'll have some very crafty link to contact help or support. Then that link may go to some website that looks like (as an example) support.chaase.com. You go there and happily enter in your Chase email and password or what ever and now its captured by the hacker in clear text on their own little Chase bank cloned website that looks exactly like Chase's website. Notice how there's two A's in the chase domain name for support? This is just another example of how a subdomain of support can be used to lure you in. In this case always call your bank and never click some support link. Same goes for a company like Amazon, PayPal, eBay, etc.
I've seen these tactics before in my own inbox and since I know a thing or two - or thee, I knew it smelled like rat vomit after eating Limburger cheese. In one case I submitted a bunch of false crap to the hacker's website. I did this using the browserling website before I had a VPN. Then when I was done with that I reported his domain to the domain register and to the hoster as well as reported the email to spamcop.com. In some cases I reported the email to the Federal Trade Commission. I don't even let the very few text and phone spam get me since I report it all to the FCC with my FCC account. I used to get a lot of spam voicemails from a college diploma mill called Great Lakes something or other so I reported each and every single phone call to the FCC. Finally, after maybe the fourth report to the FCC all calls stopped. As to spam SMS messages, never open them! They'll get a read receipt so that they know you opened it and will continue to send more and more. Eventually they
should drop off if you don't read the SMS. If, and only if it's legit, you should get a message to type stop to end the crap. This goes without saying you should always be prudent on where you hand your phone number and who you text. Carelessly handing out your phone number and texting things will get you on a sh!t list of biblical proportions. So if you see some Ad or what ever say for example, "text free4life to 5550", don't do it! Politicians like to use this crap. If you already done gone done this then you might as well start over now with a new phone number and heed the little bit of advice I give here going forward. The other option is a burner phone number. Hand that out to the potential crap. There are Apps that do this, though some if not all may suck. The best way would be to buy a DID (Direct Inward Dialing) number and buy some VoIP service. Then you install a reputable VoIP App on the phone and PC and have a second phone number.
There's so much crap I could cover it's not even funny. In the end it requires you to learn how they do it so you can one up, own, and tea bag the idiots yourself. Though, withen the confines of the law of course.
Anyway, where's that squid? I need some e-ink... Time for a smoke. RJ Reynolds be banking! And to think this state's people voted to up the tax on smokes. Grrrrr!
