Virus & Spyware
Hello! Unlike computers, one cannot use an anti virus on cell phone but obviously the security of your phone cannot be compromised. So what can be done to improve the security of cell phones especially when using Internet on phones? Is it safe to download content from some place other than the Google/play store?
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Hello! I was never the user who had anti-virus installed on his system with the latest updates but just a while ago I lost all of my data due to negligence and I learnt the lesson to protect your PC in the hard way. So please suggest some good anti-virus tool which doesn't slow my computer and please let me know about the latest kinds of viruses which are infecting the computers so that I can prevent a major damage.
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I have a windows based system that was affected with a malware. the problem is that the malware has attached itself o a system process and Im unable to stop the process without restarting my system. Is there a way that I can kill the process without tampering with the system process? How can this be achieved?
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Im a frequent web browser and I think I may have gotten a malware into my Samsung phone, is there a ware that I can clean my phone without the risk of loosing my data? I have tried installing antivirus but it will not finish to install, I think that the virus is blocking the software, How can I go about this to prevent such a malware again?
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Are viruses menace really present on mobiles? How can my phone be contaminated by a virus? Recently I download a mobile antivirus from Avira. After a few days of usage, I experienced a huge decrease in the performance of my mobile. How can a mobile application affect processing speed? Are mobile Antiviruses necessary?
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How do I make encrypted files or folders remain encrypted when I upload them to the cloud? Am thinking if I encrypt my files and folders, it may add to its security in cloud where I have no control over. If I use encryption for my back up files in cloud, could the files and folder remain encrypted after uploading? What are the ways of encrypting files in the cloud?
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what is the importance of ASLR in anti virus component? In a situation whereby ASLR is absent in some anti virus program components and a potential denial-of-service issue when scanning nested archives, how critical can these be to the overall security of the user? What is the best approach to an anti virus prog without ASLR?
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Why did I lose my data after I convert ext3 partition to use encrypted file system? I have two partition on my Linux system, one with root contain the OS and the other data which uses ext3. I create a new encrypted LUKs volume and new file system in the ext3 partition after some space was freed. I later deleted the old files in the old partition, but the new files in the new partition were lost. Can I retrieve the lost data even if in the old file system?
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What are the vulnerabilities inherent in anti virus programs? With the ways anti virus software use largest system resource and privileges, an attack lunch at the anti virus prog can cause a great problem to the anti virus prog and the overall system it claims to protect. How can these vulnerabilities be exploited by attackers and how can it mitigate?
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How best can I mirror traffic from the network interface to an Intrusion Detection System (IDs)? Am thinking of set up Suricate as the intrusion detection system on a dubian server, which will also function as the router. The IDs will only process packets destined for the host. Will this work? If this does not work, what other approach can I use in mirroring the traffic and sending the mirrored traffic to the IDs?
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