Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) Hey I just received this from Malwarebytes. They have just released an "Anti-exploit" kit for browsers and it is free. Malwarebytes does have a free version that runs manual scans. This anti exploit is also free and runs whenever your browser is open. I can highly recommend Malwarebytes and have installed it on 100's of computers... none of which I have found infected since the install. But only the subscription or lifetime license runs automatically in the background 24/7. I am installing this anti-exploit kit as I write this. Malwarebytes fights zombie-making exploit Recently Kafeine, a keen malware hunter and friend of Malwarebytes, discovered a new (zero-day) exploit that attacks Adobe Flash Player. Distributed through the Angler Exploit Kit, the zero-day delivers malware that takes control of your computer to commit click fraud. Naturally, our malware intel team wanted to see how this bad boy would do against our Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit works as a specialized defense against zero-day attacks and exploits in general. It blocks an exploit before the exploit can execute its payload—a trojan, ransomware, what have you. Anti-Exploit was successful in detecting and stopping it. (Update: According to user telemetry, this exploit is spreading extremely fast, and has now been detected on some of the top 500 most trafficked websites, including a very popular porn site. We recommend you download an anti-exploit or update to the latest Adobe Flash player, which has been recently patched.) Edited January 31, 2015 by Zathrus~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I use the free version to clean colleagues PCs for them, works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Is this better than AVG ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANiC Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 You would use this alongside avg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) Yes Malwarebytes is meant to run along side a good antivirus and firewall. It detects and stop things that most anti-viruses are very slow to detect if at all. Unfortunately much of the malware out there is as damaging as your worst nightmare virus. AVG also unfortunately is not very effective in my experience. I fix peoples computers professionally. I would say 95% of the infected computers I encounter are using the free version of AVG. It seems to completely miss most rootkits until they have deployed. That is the call I usually get... "AVG said it had detected a virus, then my computer died" Hali what ISP do you use? Most ISP's today offer a free security suite with your internet account. Edited February 2, 2015 by Zathrus~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILLE Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 where in the h*ll you guys browse with your machines? Auto updatet Vista64 + Free zonealarm + firefox & chrome with add block & CCleaner have kept me safe so far. From cmd/systeminfo: Original Install Date: 26.10.2008 -KILLE- Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchman~SPARTA~ Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 where in the h*ll you guys browse with your machines? Auto updatet Vista64 + Free zonealarm + firefox & chrome with add block & CCleaner have kept me safe so far. From cmd/systeminfo: Original Install Date: 26.10.2008 -KILLE- Jan Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) yes I use adblock also. That is a fantastic little addon. The problem is, hackers have begun disguising things so that an antivirus will not detect until the virus deploys.... then it is too late. This is where anti malware becomes very useful. It looks for the deploy packages and other signs that something is amiss. When it detects such things it quarantines it. Malwarebytes is considered the industry standard to match right now for antimalware. It also detects and quarantines the marketing stuff that is broadcasting to someone what you do and where you go. Edited February 3, 2015 by Zathrus~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 As an example of they types of things Malwarebytes will do that most security software will not do. I recently had a client who had Adblock plus and the paid version of Avert's security suite. She was talking to her daughter in France on skype. While they were talking, her internet connection died. Her computer suddenly could not connect to the internet in any manner. This is because (unknown to her security software) a variant of the "USB Bomb" virus came in on her video signal while they were talking. It completely disabled all internet capabilities in windows. I could see what it had done, Fixing it was not difficult. However, when I tried to correct the settings to re-enable her internet, the virus activated a new sequence that destroyed the file tree on her harddrive. Nothing had detected a virus... until that moment I tried to re-enable her internet... then it was too late... because 15 seconds later her computer was a useless brick. The paid version of malwarebytes would have detected that on her video signal and stopped it in it's tracks. These are new types of threats that are very specialized and very few (if any) anti-virus or firewall programs will detect them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I use Adblock plus end of, with ESET Anti fuk everything.... http://www.eset.com/us/ https://adblockplus.org/ total protection, better than a 10" condom ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) yes eset is also a good one. I use Malwarebytes, Adblock Plus and then the firewall/antivirus supplied by my ISP. Never had a problem since I installed the first two when it first came out a few years back. As long as you have all the holes plugged... your going to stop em before they are a bother. There is a major attack going on right now with "ransomware". Since the start of the year, more than a million people just in the USA have been attacked, their computers encrypted with a 24 hour countdown clock. After it has initiated... that is all the computer will do, is show you a screen demanding a ransom with a countdown clock. They are demanding payment in bitcoin. You pay the ransom... or when the clock gets to zero, your computer self destructs. Although this is usually installed in your computer with an email they trick people into opening, they have also started using flash player and other addons in your browser. So now one needs to be sure, they have all the holes plugged in the browser... or... you could get unlucky. This is why Malwarebytes built "Anti Exploit". It is for your browser... so none of the addons, etc. end up being a hole they can use to get in. Edited February 5, 2015 by Zathrus~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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