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FYI, BleachBit is a (FLOSS) alternative to ccleaner, that works pretty well.
That's why I package it for our PortableApps.com users! https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/bleachbit_portable
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Gone are the days of simple passive signature scanners. Now they all sink their claws deeply into the OS intercepting filesystem operations, network packets, and any other privileged activity. Well, things have been like that for a long time already. E.g. Thunderbyte used an ISA card in the early 90ies to insert itself before and outside the operating system [1]. Old anti-virus programs also used Terminate and Stay R…
On the note of ISA cards, i once helped install a card on some school computers that inserted itself before the OS loaded and split the HDD in half. This so that on certain conditions a clean version of the OS etc could be loaded from the half that was hidden during normal use.
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Definitely test drive a couple of Linux distributions. I do so periodically and love seeing the progress. There are really only two things keeping me on Windows. 1. I run some Windows-only applications that don't work with Wine. 2. A lot of Linux software often doesn't work well on a hi-dpi monitors. Aside from that, since Windows 7 (and later versions of Vista), Windows is fine. IMHO, operating systems aren't terrib…
hi-dpi is in a sad state right now. Fortunatly, there is good support for hidpi in wayland, and as things migrate that way it will get better. As for running windows apps....how much time do you want to waste? The only windows stuff I really run is games, and the way I do that is by running windows in a VM with the graphics card direct assigned. It works really well, and is super neat, but it was a huge pain in the a…
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Malwarebytes is great. However, what if it was their installer that was attacked in such fashion? Trusting old memories of what's good or not can be dangerous. I remember getting caught out once by CoreTemp which suddenly packed a load of dung in its default installer. :(
For apps it supports, Ninite is a good way to avoid that kind of thing, although it may not have stopped the CCleaner issue. They package their installer with extraneous bundles removed.
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Don't you need an at-least-mediocre GPU to get high resolution on 3 monitors on any OS? I wouldn't connect 3 high resolution monitors to a Windows or Mac machine with no GPU.
Modern machines that seemingly have "no GPU" have an integrated GPU that's powerful enough for driving multiple monitors, desktop compositing and rendering some 3D (modern games at 720p, older games at higher resolution).
So it was only the 32-bit executable that was affected? By default CCleaner installs both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, however on 64-bit systems it only runs the 64-bit executable and points every shortcut it makes to the 64-bit executable. On one of my affected systems that appears to have had 5.33 installed, I noticed no registry keys that appear to be created and that system never ran the 32-bit executable. Wou…
Avast/Piriform claim that the payload is not executed at all on 64 bit systems, and there is no secondary payload.
I guess it depends how much you want to trust that information.
I guess we know how Equifax got hacked.
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I have a small underpowered desktop running in my house that only has onboard graphics and it runs Ubuntu 16.04 just fine, but its only connected to 1 monitor, not 3.
The Intel integrated graphic card of my laptop does handle 3 screens fine and I dont need to mess with drivers, everything works well out of the box. I would actually advise against NVIDIA cards unless you need powerful graphic processing or to do GPU computation.