So here's a little rant. You can call me dumb, but one of my grad classes has a very anal lab report component, so I was slaving away doing my statistics analysis.
It involved a lot of statistics, which is fine because I use a piece of statistics software already. I suddenly remembered that when I was an intern years that I used another piece of software.
I'll admit that I ventured into illegal software and I tried downloading that 2nd piece of software. Now, in my own defense, I was like 90% done generating all the graphs I needed. I wanted to see how the other piece of software would do it. Plus, this is the day the lab is due. I'm just playing around to see if the other software can do a better job.
Well guess what? Virus. It was one of those multi RAR files that extracted and setup.exe infested my computer.
My question is...
1) In extracting RAR files, shouldn't AV kinda scan through what the hell is being extracted? I'm using MSE right now, but if I remember properly, when I had a NOD or Kaspersky License, these things caught all this stuff in my RAR files. Heck, if the RAR file had anything fishy, I couldn't even download!
Why isn't MSE alerting me?
2) When I EXECUTE something, shouldn't MSE first analyze it, and then let me execute it? Shrug.
Maybe this is karma saying that I should stick to the piece of software that I own, and that my little adventure in trying another piece of software out was the wrong thing. Heh, if so, I'll take that.
As a result I was late to my lab TA class that I taught, and I spent the whole day recreating these graphs on a 8 year old laptop that served me through college because I only have PC stats software, and my Mac won't do. I basically rewrote my whole damn lab report today because I was gone the past 2 days in lab, and my work was all on remote desktop on my desktop at home. So once it died, I was screwed. Either I had to come home and spend hours troubleshooting, or whatever.
This is the SECOND MSE has failed me and my MBR has gotten infected. I'm thinking of going back to buying a NOD32 license again. It might be worth it. I stopped only because I found out MSE got a top notch rating back in AV Comparatives for speed and detection rating.
Cliffs:
I use MSE
1) In extracting RAR files, shouldn't AV kinda scan through what the hell is being extracted? I'm using MSE right now, but if I remember properly, when I had a NOD or Kaspersky License, these things caught all this stuff in my RAR files. Heck, if the RAR file had anything fishy, I couldn't even download!
Why isn't MSE alerting me?
2) When I EXECUTE something, shouldn't MSE first analyze it, and then let me execute it? Shrug.
It involved a lot of statistics, which is fine because I use a piece of statistics software already. I suddenly remembered that when I was an intern years that I used another piece of software.
I'll admit that I ventured into illegal software and I tried downloading that 2nd piece of software. Now, in my own defense, I was like 90% done generating all the graphs I needed. I wanted to see how the other piece of software would do it. Plus, this is the day the lab is due. I'm just playing around to see if the other software can do a better job.
Well guess what? Virus. It was one of those multi RAR files that extracted and setup.exe infested my computer.
My question is...
1) In extracting RAR files, shouldn't AV kinda scan through what the hell is being extracted? I'm using MSE right now, but if I remember properly, when I had a NOD or Kaspersky License, these things caught all this stuff in my RAR files. Heck, if the RAR file had anything fishy, I couldn't even download!
Why isn't MSE alerting me?
2) When I EXECUTE something, shouldn't MSE first analyze it, and then let me execute it? Shrug.
Maybe this is karma saying that I should stick to the piece of software that I own, and that my little adventure in trying another piece of software out was the wrong thing. Heh, if so, I'll take that.
As a result I was late to my lab TA class that I taught, and I spent the whole day recreating these graphs on a 8 year old laptop that served me through college because I only have PC stats software, and my Mac won't do. I basically rewrote my whole damn lab report today because I was gone the past 2 days in lab, and my work was all on remote desktop on my desktop at home. So once it died, I was screwed. Either I had to come home and spend hours troubleshooting, or whatever.
This is the SECOND MSE has failed me and my MBR has gotten infected. I'm thinking of going back to buying a NOD32 license again. It might be worth it. I stopped only because I found out MSE got a top notch rating back in AV Comparatives for speed and detection rating.
Cliffs:
I use MSE
1) In extracting RAR files, shouldn't AV kinda scan through what the hell is being extracted? I'm using MSE right now, but if I remember properly, when I had a NOD or Kaspersky License, these things caught all this stuff in my RAR files. Heck, if the RAR file had anything fishy, I couldn't even download!
Why isn't MSE alerting me?
2) When I EXECUTE something, shouldn't MSE first analyze it, and then let me execute it? Shrug.
Facebook
Twitter