The queen's been watching me wank :s

[SpontaneousOrder]

So, i've been running my macbook pro problem free for nearly 2 years without any antivirus etc, my iMac for about a year.

Yesterday I put windows 8.1 on bootcamp, and spent a lot of the day downloading games from my steam account, etc.

Today I log into windows and go downstairs to get a cup of tea while it loads, and when I come back i'm looking at myself being recorded on the webcam, and the whole screen it locked and telling me i've been disseminating illegal porn, and I might have pirated some stuff too, and at the bottom I find i have to pay a £100 (justice is CHEAP!) fine before they come with the black bags.

Worst bit is (check out the screenshot in the link) I reckon the Queen has been watching me wank, muttering 'one does not approve' under her breath

3 Easy Ways to Remove the "Metropolitan British Police" virus

******* windows. 1 day!

[cojak]

You install Windows without installing an antivirus immediately afterward?



(Unless you didn't and this is a spoof post - that's what it is...)

[barrydidit]

I thought this was going to be contractor lifestyle thread.

[minestrone]

Windows 8 comes with an antivirus.

[DaveB]

So, i've been running my macbook pro problem free for nearly 2 years without any antivirus etc, my iMac for about a year.

Yesterday I put windows 8.1 on bootcamp, and spent a lot of the day downloading games from my steam account, etc.

Today I log into windows and go downstairs to get a cup of tea while it loads, and when I come back i'm looking at myself being recorded on the webcam, and the whole screen it locked and telling me i've been disseminating illegal porn, and I might have pirated some stuff too, and at the bottom I find i have to pay a £100 (justice is CHEAP!) fine before they come with the black bags.

Worst bit is (check out the screenshot in the link) I reckon the Queen has been watching me wank, muttering 'one does not approve' under her breath

3 Easy Ways to Remove the "Metropolitan British Police" virus

******* windows. 1 day!

I suspect that a the relevant bit...

Also, according to the current SANS survival time stats, it takes between 2 and 4 hours for an un-patched unprotect Windows system to be compromised. If you didn't download all the latest security updates and install AV straight way, you are going to get owned sooner rather than later.

https://isc.sans.edu/survivaltime.html

[cojak]

Windows 8 comes with an antivirus.

So this IS a spoof post and SO didn't get a virus?

[SpontaneousOrder]

I suspect that a the relevant bit...

Also, according to the current SANS survival time stats, it takes between 2 and 4 hours for an un-patched unprotect Windows system to be compromised. If you didn't download all the latest security updates and install AV straight way, you are going to get owned sooner rather than later.

https://isc.sans.edu/survivaltime.html

Wow, times have changed. Last time I used windows I didn't have to worry about anti-virus unless I was in the habit of downloading 'codec's to play naughty vids. As it was a proper mission just to get it installed on bootcamp, downloading more junk wasn't top of my immediate list.

[xoggoth]

If a virus accessed my webcam it would just show pictures of nice little birdies on the feeder.

[NotAllThere]

So, i've been running my macbook pro problem free for nearly 2 years without any antivirus etc, my iMac for about a year...

You install Windows without installing an antivirus immediately afterward?

Well the tosser (by his own admission) has been running mac stuff without AV, so that level of moronic stupidity is to be expected.

Have you never applied patches to your macbook? There are a few available - or are you really such a gullible idiot that you believe the mantra "Macs don't get viruses"? Running unpatched systems of any OS flavour is monumentally cretinous and entirely inexcusable for anyone who works in the IT industry. I hope you never work in any kind of network administrative capacity.

I was talking to the IT security guys at client site on Friday- they say the only way to secure a webcam (be it on a linux, mac or windows machine) is to put a sticker over it.

[Sysman]

Well the tosser (by his own admission) has been running mac stuff without AV, so that level of moronic stupidity is to be expected.

Have you never applied patches to your macbook? There are a few available - or are you really such a gullible idiot that you believe the mantra "Macs don't get viruses"? Running unpatched systems of any OS flavour is monumentally cretinous and entirely inexcusable for anyone who works in the IT industry. I hope you never work in any kind of network administrative capacity.

Who's trolling now?

If he's installed Windows via BootCamp it will have created a nice shiny new partition to put it in.

Windows 8.1 is supposed to come with its own builtin antivirus.

I was talking to the IT security guys at client site on Friday- they say the only way to secure a webcam (be it on a linux, mac or windows machine) is to put a sticker over it.

Aw, bless.