Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker… Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.
The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service’s enshitification… While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.
Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.
Ok I’ll bite. What’s the software you “need”?
That’s the app OP is talking about ‘selling out’ to advertisers.
“A decade”?! Try 2
Install Linux and this is the way.
If you think ClamAV on your mom’s laptop on Starbucks WiFi is doing anything useful, but you think fail2ban isn’t - you’re naive.
On phishing - you’ve got another great example. ublock origin or any other decent adblocker will do WAAAAY more to help than ClamAV.
Ideally you keep your configs in a git repo (like github). You know what’s modified because you’re the one who modified them. If you modify them - put that config file in the git repo.
As for “put down” I just meant copied to the system (from github) by your automation (like ansible)
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/getting_started/index.html
Sounds like you’ve got a better solution, but I think you forgot to mention what it was.
That, and:
Basically: put everything back as it was right before the ransomware encrypted your system on you.
Then of course - fix what you did wrong that got you compromised. ;-)
No, most desktops behind a NAT probably dont need fail2ban (though it wouldn’t hurt).
Everyone’s security profile/needs are different.
The point is that list does a hell of a lot more useful than ClamAV
You’d be better served learning how to setup and use:
I’ve been zwifting exclusively on Linux for a few years now with this: https://github.com/netbrain/zwift
It’s pretty distro agnostic. I’m using it with Podman on RHEL 9.
Still requires you to use the companion app on your phone for your Bluetooth connections, but it beats keeping a Windows machine around. Good luck!