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over the last few years there's been a let's call it a trend among computer enthusiasts to no longer use protection and I've definitely changed my habits as well and for every day that might seem okay but you get outside your comfort zone every now and then you know you go someplace you've never been before or someone you don't know messes with someplace that you used to be comfortable in and before you know it you're lost and alone and everybody wants your bits which is why BitDefender reached out to sponsor this video about their security software and the role that security solutions play in 2018 in fact they're so confident about their role but they've got something planned for the end of this video spoiler alert it's a okay so first things first why BitDefender I'm pretty sure that I'm on the record saying that I don't use antivirus software on my personal machine anymore I mean it's not that I don't care about my security I do use security software here at work we've got a site-wide license and I do use it on relatives and friends machines it's just that for myself I found that common sense and reasonable precautions are good for most things and then what I'll do is I'll just roll out a sacrificial virtual machine when I need to do something a little sketchy like let's say I need an ISO for an old version of Windows or something although that is horribly inconvenient for most people and Anthony who actually worked on writing this video has seen plenty of cocky folks like me taken down a peg at his old pc repair job where they recommended BitDefender and on that subject the channel you're watching right now was actually hijacked when I clicked on something I shouldn't have got a keylogger and they took away the account that happened in probably about six or seven years ago so this is one of those do as I say not as I do types of things anyway hot off winning product of the year and consistently being at the top for security BitDefender came to us with a challenge break our protection clearly they don't know who they're dealing with but before we go about testing that let's break down some of those reasonable precautions that you and you and everyone you know should be implementing regardless to prevent your data from getting lost via an infection or worse first of all keep local backups and raid is not a backup of all critical data this lets you get backup and running more quickly in the case of a drive crash or if you get hit by ransomware which yes is still going strong not to mention is getting more sophisticated all the time and it happens BitDefender can actually protect important folders wholesale and behaviorally protects everything else against even zero days that haven't been patched yet and this is before the malware has a chance to encrypt anything so this that minimum saves you from having to restore from your backups and at worst having to pay a ransom to maybe if they actually go through with their word I mean remember these are not the most up-and-up folks to maybe get your college thesis or your vacation photos back none of that though will save you if the building is on fire so you should also keep an off-site backup these days cloud storage services dominate this space but you can also accomplish this by just keeping a backup Drive in a separate building like a friend's or your parents house now back to that common sense theory of personal cybersecurity that essentially boils down to three important points one keep everything up to date at minimum stay on top of your security updates number two keep your stock protection enabled this acts as a better than nothing last line of defense once something is on your PC which brings us to three don't download stupid stuff but I mean stupids not really a fair word for it because as easy or common sense as some of these things might be for you it's not necessarily common sense to people who don't live and breathe Tech everyday and furthermore it's not that uncommon for popular websites to become targets of poisoning attempts by hackers and we've actually had additionally some very convincing phishing scams roll into our inboxes that appeared to be internal mail from other people who work here and these are both things that BitDefender offers proactive protection against I mean I'm sure that you guys all know someone you know who they are who downloads anything with a shiny button so why don't we go ahead and watch the rest of this video from that perspective so Anthony has provided me with a handy dandy list of skeezy sites that I can visit and I've got a virtual machine that is protected by bitdefender up here my mandate is to go to all of these sites follow any link that crosses my path and click on basically every ad also I'll be installing some apps just clicking next through the installers without checking to see what they're putting on my system my sisters watching basically I'm channeling you alright so right now we're not an autopilot so it's going to give me notifications for pretty much everything that happens this is total security so this is their top-of-the-line anti bad stuff protection it's been a long time since I've gone to a sketchy site what the heck is this Steve Mike fire force info yeah that's right I wonder if that one's down devs a - dream.com to be very clear we're not recommending you go any of these places BitDefender blocked this page Oh so is it actually blocking content from the page - ha all right Lara Dimas how are these not loading so even though browser doesn't like this one you know what why was I using Chrome in the first place Anthony none of these pages are working oh it's a sketchy redirect maybe these are some friends that I can talk to oh I won because there's no real domain sent Oh better pixelate that Anthony were you browsing these sites at work I gotta find some stuff to download here that sounds pretty sketchy this one down to skewer will calm visit the site all these sites are so slow all right we found some of them that are still up so I think I would like some free video game what is when comm yeah our zoom driver update that sounds pretty good meanwhile let's go to Cinna he calm this looks perfectly legitimate it's just running off YouTube activate your free account 256 bit SSL encryption you are safe I don't have like a fake credit card to give them yeah sure here we go 50 euros a month yeah no drivers support dot exe that seems good yeah okay an active optimization it's okay well while that's running let's find some other stuff here's an ad for Adobe this looks like it may actually be a real thing his torch bad it's not okay what do I carry the publisher is yes the ultimate best sites to watch free movies Kenny so that game just didn't seem to actually do anything active optimization do I have to actually buy something to get infected by this oh my god we need something a registry optimizer quick easy and safe let's get 24 items repaired what does that even mean nothing freemake Video Converter yes install all the things Google Docs for dummies these aren't even downloads these are just like stupid clickbait lists okay so this is just junk where oh hey something finally tried to screw us freemake video downloader tried to make a change to a file in a protected folder and was blocked and the program crashed so we found out why it seemed like it was impossible to infect the computer we went into the notifications for BitDefender and it's blocking the sites with malware on them and in the warnings tab we've got the junk that we just installed so I guess if something falls into the phishing fraud or malware category then it's insta blocked and if it's potentially unwanted and not malicious it just warns you about it ok no maybe I'll just turn it off for a little bit is there a way to turn it off here we go alright alright advanced threat defense off off off off okay come on yes we are providing all the administrative access you need for it no threat move to quarantine how did it do the head I'm gonna get jiggy with some infected pages here I'm trying so hard to install garbage detected threat is being dissipated even if I try and turn it off it's still working so overall we found this exercise both frustrating but then also reassuring because initially I thought it was basically impossible to infect a computer these days no matter what kind of websites we tried to go to or what we tried to click on it had been quietly keeping us from actually getting infected with anything they've got a couple of different modes so they've got both a game mode and a movie mode which you can check out in the dashboard and they have been found consistently to have among the best detection rates in the industry according to AV comparatives and avy test so there you go guys most of us like me and Anthony and you the one who's watching this are not gonna do this kind of thing on a daily basis although you know probably more often than we might like to admit we do end up on somewhat sketchy websites but we all know someone who does frequent free TV sites or you know registry repair application sites and does fall for online scams and that's where BitDefender really comes into its own because you can install it for them and then not have to deal with the fallout you know three or six months down the line and speaking of six months as luck would have it exclusively for our viewers BitDefender is giving away a six month subscription for new users so give it a try and if you're the family tech support guru maybe don't install it on your own PC necessarily install it on a loved one's computer set it on autopilot and then reduce the number of support calls that you have to deal with so thanks for watching guys if you just like this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured that is enforcement defender at the link in the 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