US, European police take down highly elusive botnet known as Beebone
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I have this image of a white van pulling up to a curb and out pours a team of technologists in hazmat suits who descend on some hapless computer user's home to forcibly reinstall Windows on their HP Pavillion.
After using Linux as my daily driver for the past 5 years I had to reinstall my windows partition and when I tried install some new software I haven't used before it completely messed up the entire install to the point where I decided to scrap it and re install again.
Lesson learned use VM's wiener you try something new especially on windows.
It's gotten worse in the 5 years i haven't used it that much.
The best part is that Chocolatey will be included in Windows 10 by default, through the built-in OneGet package manager.
The other mitigation, of course, is to pay for software. I don't worry about whether dbpoweramp is going to do something shady.
Some programs are becoming "aware" of VMs, though. I ran into that trying to "screen" a coupon printer. Ended up tossing that in the bit bucket.
The best security model on a common operating system is probably Android, especially the newer security enhanced versions. Keep your work, banking, and home stuff separate? Check. Fine grained control of what apps can do? Check. Prevent programs from interfering with other programs or the OS? Check.
The 3 problems for android are - we don't know much about most software publishers (why should we trust them), lack of opensource apps for important stuff, and users are used to giving apps permissions they don't need.
Of course. Don't connect it to the internet.