Free Security Tools Everyone Should Use

[@pussific2582]

1. Autoruns - 0:23 2. Process Explorer - 3:38 3. PeStudio - 5:05 4. HxD - 6:00 5. Comodo Free Firewall - 7:11 6. Bitdefender and Kaspersky - 9:11 7. Bitwarden - 10:17

[@viniciusnoyoutube]

Thanks

[@utilizator500]

BitDefender is no longer free. Edit: apparently I'm wrong

[@Tecra-md3by]

@@utilizator500 Yes it is

[@TheHobbitmann]

@@utilizator500 yes this version is free

[@AuriosCPU]

@@utilizator500 Yes it is but the product is somehow hard to find, it's like hidden...

[@R1po]

This channel is great. Can't believe I just found it now after it's been on yt for 11 years. Not that I use the torrent anymore or visit shady sites like in my youth (20 years ago), but every once in a while I get curious if my system is clean. And while the topic of pc security always tickled my curiosity, I never dived really deep into it. This here has the right balance. So thank you, for making these.

[@namanthacker]

I have been using torrents since 2015 Never had to visit any shady or sketchy site

[@Ran6ger]

Would love to see Comodo’s container stress tested!

[@deltashit]

Yes please

[@samyakshahare9411]

I have tested against ransomeware. And it protected against encryption my files

[@zlq4704]

Since it just put everything unknown into its sandbox, I don’t think this test is necessary. It's better to see if an unknown but safe software can run without issue while it's "contained" incorrectly.

[@krillAmorim]

There is a Chanel called vibe tech testes many antivírus and cômodo take a look kzbin.info

[@Lordseydu01]

Shitty software literally bootlooped my PC

[@Minnka_]

I would recommend Comodo only as Firewall - Keeping HIPS and VirusScope enabled made the comodo process use 18-23% CPU power all the time even when in idle. Also Comodo HIPS generated ton of false-positive alerts, it's still great as firewall but other functionalities just take up too much resources

[@Azure70]

For advanced users, yeah, HIPS would be useful. For newbies or less advance users, HIPS disabled and auto sandbox enable, would be the better and most user friendly option

[@reasoningtruth]

18-23% processor power? What processor do you have? I WAS going to take a look at it.

[@somethingelse9228]

HIPS helps me understand what the program is doing in the background, so I like to keep it on even with the high processor usage.

[@ТоварищКамрадовСоциалистКоммун]

HIPS may indeed use quite a lot of system resources when it actually works, that means you start, interact with newly installed or started programs, which don't have the rules created, or don't have an automatically created rule like safe apps. Otherwise any modern system won't be heavily loaded by HIPS, it's typical load is well below 1%

[@JerniganJ111]

I wish there were links to these things in the description. Just knowing the name alone isn't always great considering there's usually a metric ton of different DL links when looking these up and it can get tricky to find the official links. The first result isn't always the safest or official one.

[@JerniganJ111]

@@helmi8962 Obviously sherlock. Sometimes the official website's URL aren't obvious and are sketchy themselves which is why other websites with similar links can be mistaken as a trustable source, which is why I made my comment lol.

[@jibberjabber6919]

I reckon he omits the links in the description on purpose. To force people to watch the whole video.

[@tablettablete186]

@@helmi8962 Certified Bruh moment!

[@JerniganJ111]

@@helmi8962 Yes, obviously that's an option but it is time consuming. It would be highly convenient and time saving if the links were readily available in the description though.

[@helmi8962]

@@JerniganJ111 remember, cybersecurity is time consuming. Not everybody can do it

[@computernerdtechman]

We use Autoruns in our PC Repair shop. But please beware, this is a really powerful tool (it makes changes to the Windows registry) and if you don't know what you are doing and delete the wrong stuff you can seriously screw up your system. With that caveat, it's a great tool.

[@feelincrispy7053]

Windows: stop explorer process tree? 12 year old me: yeaaaahh! 😀 2 seconds later: 😮

[@rogerramjet6429]

@@feelincrispy7053 the 12 yo son of a female friend of mine, considered himself a PC expert, a few years ago, then tried deleting the system32 folder. Lasted about 3 seconds then shtf big time. I'm really not sure what he was trying to do, except maybe show off to me, due to me working on computers since the original IBM XT/AT series in the 80s. I reinstalled windows then set up accounts for each individual in the house but gave him less access than his 10 yo sister. Complained about not having access to various folders, so I told him I don't have my life to sit there fixing his fk ups because he thinks he knows everything. Since gaming became all the rage I got fed up with dealing with the BS from kids and parents that just blame others for their problems, and then quit the industry. Got fed up with having to chase payments from nasty people that think I had to cover everything under a warranty that had nothing to do with me, as well. Abuse and a smashed item due to rage isn't a valid warranty claim by anybody under any circumstances.

[@feelincrispy7053]

@@rogerramjet6429 lol well to be fair little kids are called little shits for a reason. Every computer wizz use to be that kid deleting things and adding software to see what will happen. Kids like to impress older people too. It’s in their nature. As for the rest it sounds like you were working a regular western lower-middle class job having to deal with shit you don’t get paid enough for just like the rest of us western plebs haha. How good is it!

[@edwardmacnab354]

@@rogerramjet6429 should have upgraded to windows pro and showed him how to use hyper-v

[@Turco949]

Agreed. At the very least, every user should check the "Hide Windows Entries" under Options to hide most of the system critical entries that no user really needs to mess with anyway.

[@reguluscorneas6669]

Would love to know more of these types in different categories. This was so informative

[@librepo_onYT]

When buying a new computer, I personally just take a look at the software and find the brand's utilities that I may need in the future then do a clean install to remove all the bloatware.

[@Mr_Crypt]

That's exactly correct. You don't need anything to remove bloatware, just reset the computer once you get it and make sure to uncheck include preinstalled software. It's that simple

[@jaxonfreeman1756]

Indeed. However, windows itself loads and autoruns features and apps that you may not want even after a clean install. There are also intrusive microsoft reporting services running. So... If you really want total control out of the box... use Linux ;)

[@oliviadrinkwine1411]

I do this as well the moment I got this computer downloaded Rufus and Windows 10 and did a clean install now I just use arch, Ubuntu or any other number of Linux distros.

[@librepo_onYT]

@@oliviadrinkwine1411 Yeah lol

[@librepo_onYT]

@@jaxonfreeman1756 ikr

[@DavidM2002]

I would add Microsoft's Task Scheduler to this list. Poke around on the left hand side first and you will see some familiar names. The number of your apps that are set to run on startup and and periodic intervals checking back with the mothership is quite an eye opener. I found one app that was checking for updates hourly. You may actually want to keep them but you can alter to time and frequency that they are calling home. The TS can be a very good tool once you figure out its inner workings.

[@BVasquezp]

Windows task manager also lists apps on startup.

[@kamilkampfwagen]

​@@BVasquezp It doesn't list the scheduled tasks. An app may use registry for running at startup and a task or service for update checks.

[@geraldabeyawardena5606]

What's in it for the free tool provider?

[@ddabrahim]

Love it how Comodo is one of your first recommendation yet you refuse to do a malware test for years to see how much protection it is actually provide. I've been using Comodo for years and I was begging on this channel for years to do a test to see if it was a good choice. LOL

[@naegleriafowleri2230]

Comodo firewall isnt even available anymore

[@starkbeatle4516]

@@naegleriafowleri2230 wdym

[@nomoretalk2967]

he did a test with comodo

[@starkbeatle4516]

@@nomoretalk2967 when was this

[@TheJoBlackos]

I would not touch Comodo products from 50 feets, and I know they do a lot of security stuff and have a big market share

[@GainingDespair]

Comodo with the CruelSister configuration (can be searched for) is very strong, basically auto sandboxing non whitelisted software, and preventing said software from connecting to the internet. They keep a preset list of approved whitelisted software so really not much if any user input is needed when it comes to the whitelist. Folks have test the config in the past and as far as I can tell nothing has gotten past it yet, though that is mostly due to the program sandboxing the unknown software with restricted permissions. You can still run non-whitelisted software it just runs sandboxed, and in the off chance they haven't already reviewed the software you can manually whitelist it. I had to do so like 3-4 times in the 2-3 years I used it.

[@PEdulis]

Thanks for the list. I missed malwarebytes and spybot search & destroy, two tools that I use regularly on all my windows computers.

[@sjsphotog]

Also check out Spyware Blaster (blocks intrusions on all your browsers) and also SuperAntispyware Free

[@nilpo]

Spybot S&D? Maybe ten years ago. It's detection rate today is far below the industry average.

[@nilpo]

@@sjsphotog SuperAntispyware isn't that great. It offers no protection against malicious links, phishing attempts, and has a pretty low overall detection rate.

[@seanleastria4478]

Thumbs up! This is very helpful. Does Comodo alert or at least list any outbound attempt? I have tried Comodo awhile back, and didn't notice any method for blocking outbound attempts. Especially from the built in spyware in Windows. Windows 11 is more like an anti-OS since it doesn't do what OS is supposed to do. But rather, it runs more like malware than an operating system. Not all malicious activity is about stealing identity or compromising anything. But can simply fall under general illegitimate activity which tens to consists of three characteristics. A - unsolicited activity. Activity not requested or even in the awareness of user. B - surreptitious activity. Activity hidden from the user. And in many cases difficult to detect. C - self reinitiating/replicating. Activity with multiple failsafes for the purpose of continued persistence with no regard to user. Often completely against user. All of this is known as illegitimate activity. Which is a form of malicious activity. This is how malware behaves. All the same can be said about illegitimate data collection - malicious/spyware. All the type of data collection in Windows 11 falls under A, B, C. This is the opposite of OS function. To provide user interface for managing applications and hardware on a machine. Applications don't need OS. This was even the standard in the good old days. But OS allows for software to be developed for OS. The OS can interface with the hardware. But the main aspect is the UI and functions of OS that are meant for user to fully control everything. Yet much aspects of Windows works against this.

[@monoklmen]

Great video! Would be lovely to have links for each of the services in the description, although maybe I am just of a lazy nature. Thanks for the content.

[@whutwasidooing]

Been using Process Explorer for years, highly recommend it. Much more in-depth than Task Manager.

[@ImLasu]

You can turn on "CPU History" per process as well // really good for diagnosing some processes that take to much CPU but in short intervals.

[@olymoon2008]

Extremely useful video, thank you. I just have a new computer, and need to setup good security in it, what you explain is exactly what I need. I can't thank you enough.

[@BiyaPore]

Would love to see Comodo’s container stress tested!. It can't get anymore simple than this. Thank you soo much howtobasic!.

[@tylercoombs1]

Given the current geopolitical tensions right now I wouldn't recommend using Kaspersky's AV, they're likely fine because most of their operation runs from Switzerland and is predominantly owned by a UK company. With that being said, one of the lead devs is a former FSB officer(Russia's CIA) and Kaspersky's is HQ'd in Moscow we don't know definitively what their ties are like with the Russian gov. If you're Russian, you probably don't want to use it either it could be used, theoretically, to track your activity across the internet The rule of thumb is that you always want to decrease your attack surface, so when in doubt...

[@REZNON]

Well, but who can guarantee that bitdefender doesn't spy on us, or symantec... Whatsoever... If the Russians have the opportunity to spy on me why shouldn't the other's have similar goals? Shall we be so naive to trust US/UK/China/Australia/Japan/India/Armenia/Israeli...any government so much to think those political so-called "authorities" do not give an effort of inserting not so healthy parts of a code into any software created under their "coverage"? As the source codes of all those products remain definitely closed then all of the authors may have some hidden "secrets" which may ruin all your dreams of security. Thus the only solution in any case still remains the ditching of all the proprietary software and turn to the free and oppensource community.

[@j0hnr3x]

This comment needs more likes, so more people see this.

[@Malossianoplus]

Yeah and most people have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram that ofc doesn't share nothing.. what a stupid mentality.. and most site u vist take a track of your cookie for "information".. yeah..

[@tylercoombs1]

@@Malossianoplus FB isn't HQ'd in a de facto dictatorship nor was it created by a former FSB officer, you should be very careful installing any apps that get root privileges

[@Translogiced]

I use Comodo Firewall (been using it since 2012) and I paid for Bitwarden premium back in December so I could use it with my Yubikey I was thinking of installing Bitdefender over MS defender but I saw that BD does not have a silent mode unless you pay for total security (gaming mode profile) I know KSC does work with Comodo Firewall but I never figured out how to get rid of the incompatibility popup that would constantly appear

[@pepeshopping]

But remember! A “proper” malicious program would hook into the windows dlls in order to filter and hide itself! Which means: You can NOT find them with simple tools like this (unless you have the hash values for every file of every windows release and any/all windows programs).

[@BenODen]

Why hasn't anybody taken on this challenge? All of Microsoft's updates will have a given set of files it delivers to the computer, it should be possible to have a database of known bad and known good system files. Like haveibeenpowned but with a white list and a black list for files and their hashes. Maybe two hash algorithms to make it even more unlikely that a hacker could "shop" for a matching hash for their malware by judicious padding. But in general, a list of valid and invalid versions of system files is feasible and would provide value if it could be secured and kept up to date...

[@Snarkapotamus]

@@BenODen - Since hooking the file system at ring 0 is the preferred method of rootkits, you need to scan the drive OUTSIDE of Windows. Otherwise, the scanner would probably never see it...

[@BenODen]

@@Snarkapotamus I would welcome even a boot disk that runs this check against an os on the os drive. We have no absolute test on whether the os itself is compromised, correct?

[@Snarkapotamus]

@@BenODen - Actually, most AV vendors have boot disks (or the ability for the end-user to make one) for this very purpose...you can thank Sony BMG for the onslaught of rootkits over the last 20-years or so.

[@ashwani14august]

Wow! This video is extremely helpful. All applications are very useful. Please keep posting videos like this every once in a while

[@tcctech3211]

you should really link Official Links for anything you suggest so they do not get a HACKED version of the programs because hacked version of these programs are all over the place

[@herbspatola1623]

This seems geared more to the cognoscenti than the everyman with a PC. I kept looking for the download and install instructions. The zip file has many variations of the program and it would be helpful to know which one(s) to use.

[@kcrelax3330]

Something that sucks about Process Explorer is the use of Virus Total. Virus Total is a big privacy hazad if not used correctly as it uploads files that are used so if you scan somthing personal, most likely it is logged.

[@soundspark]

Unless you are developing custom executables, it's not a risk. It only uploads executables for the programs you are using.

[@bunny420ue]

just a suggestion from INDIA - please put markers on video !!!!! BTW NICE WORK!

[@StirsMYCookiez]

Glad to see Bitwarden on here!! Nice work

[@SniperOwl]

O&O ShutUp10++ is also a really nice tool to disable telemetry and other privacy and security invading windows "features".

[@bazexists]

O&O AppBuster is ok too

[@noisewaveofficial]

And Windows but enterprise edition. Whats great is that you dont need any third party tools, just standard gpedit.

[@oliviadrinkwine1411]

Or there are scripts now that do the same thing and are open sourced if you wish to go that route. But other then that ShutUp10++ is decent I've used it before I realized my mic doesn't work with Windows 11.

[@brianfrank7167]

@@noisewaveofficial true. but most younger generation users are getting away from ole gran'daddy Group Policy and Active Directory. Times Change.

[@22locor]

Certainly doesn't play well with Windows 11 from my experience. A number of settings reset during Windows updates, and they're constantly updating 11 right now. Though, as long as you're on top of re-importing settings, it works okay.

[@galacticag7270]

I am brand new to DAW and soft soft - these tutorials are excellent an very helpful to get soone like up and running. Appreciate

[@Tomb_Raider123]

Would love to see Trend Micro in action again. Its been 4 years since Leo had tested the Trend Micro product.

[@nilpo]

It's probably been that long since anyone has seen Trend Micro in action....it doesn't detect much.

[@22locor]

Been a longtime user of Bitwarden. Love it.

[@MrKra888]

Additional free tools I like are: 1) Unchecky 2) Complete Internet Repair 3) Glary Utilities 4) Super Anti-Spyware 5) Lazesoft Recovery Suite 6) MalwareBytes Browser Guard 7) Adguard Browser Extension 8) Adware Removal Tool 9) ADW Cleaner 10) Ninite Free Software Installer

[@Uhtredrag1080]

wouldn't some of those conflict with each other?

[@bleakyfinder2692]

thanks Leo. Great Tools for PC Dudes, not really for Dummies like myself.

[@zetectic7968]

What no links in the description or a list the program names? Guardio - to get the full features $6 a month. I don't think so at that price when uBlock Origin is free and my AV costs 1/4 of that for 3 years

[@pedrogorilla483]

Great tools but unfortunately they only cover the low-hanging fruits. The most sophisticated threats will bypass those.

[@AndreTech-ll7rt]

It would be nice if you would have provided the website to download these to make sure Im not downloading any malware

[@Enkde]

i can recommend also using simplewall by henry++, a great and lightweight tiny firewall - a must have.

[@TRYEYTSG]

hey when iam open pestudio i can see only 3 category any idea y ? indicators virustotal strings and not match of information

[@eraldorh]

Does kaspersky security cloud go well with comodo firewall? or do they conflict or cause problems?

[@khusanturaev5991]

They work fine together, but you will see notifications from Kaspersky sometimes (not often) saying that they are incompatible. I have both Kaspersky and Comodo free installed.

[@eraldorh]

@@khusanturaev5991 Tried them, didnt work well together at all. It completely broke the asus armoury crate which is essential for creating and controling overclocks, decreasing cpu power for better temperatures, fan curves ect. It broke it so badly that i had to do a system restore to get it working again.

[@CurbSideManor]

I find it fascinating that all the programs you mentioned, I don't run my computer without them being present and up to date. Comodo when I put it on my system i run it to notify me of everything that tries to connect online for about 3-5 days. You'll be amazed at what do, that doesn't need to. Especially Microsoft stuff.

[@jritechnology]

Autoruns and Process Explorer are must have tools in Malware removal....I've been using them since 2004...great tools. Bitwarden I'm a *bit* in the air about since it becomes a PITA to type in your master password every time you want to include a new password into the vault, even on a trusted machine I am having to do this. It might be the way it interacts with my browser, I'm not sure at this point.

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

You shouldn't have to do that. If you use the browser extension or application, set the timeout to never.

[@Slavolko]

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq You can set the timeout to never, but I wouldn't recommend that in case someone comes to your computer or if it becomes compromised with malware that targets Bitwarden. It's less convenient, yes, but it's something to at least recognize regardless of what route you take.

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

@@Slavolko Unless the malware includes OCR, surely the data remains encrypted for anything but Bitwarden? I don't know much about browser storage architecture, but otherwise, that'd be a problem anyway, right?

[@Slavolko]

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq I was mainly thinking about an OCR/screenshot malware, correct. I don't know if there's another way for malware to grab data from an open database, but for maximum security posture, you should assume there is. For a locked database, it's definitely encrypted and malware can't access it. An open database could be targetted by spyware though. Would you have other problems if that were the case? Yes, but it also doesn't hurt to close the Bitwarden vault after a few minutes.

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

@@Slavolko I didn't realize that OCR-capable malware existed yet. I swear that malware developers are secretly the guys that push programming along with their weird polymorphic AI-supported shenanigans.

[@shqiptar03]

Is comodo a antivirus with a firewall or just a firewall? Can i run comodo together with windows security defender?

[@DevideNull]

A downside that I think Bitdefender has (may be an advantage for some people?) I tested it on a laptop. It seems it will reset windows update during installation. Which I have used a PS script a long time ago to disable it for good reason. I did not notice it for a while. Eventually, I had to reinstall the system. Because windows auto update will cause problems with some hardware that requires unsigned third party drivers.

[@serasaurusrex]

Thank you, this was very helpful.

[@bazexists]

Can you talk about the efficiency of ransomware from Kaspersky and no more ransom?

[@l0I0I0I0]

Can't tell you how useful this vid is! Ty!

[@j.d.4697]

I used to use Comodo and BitDefender, but especially BitDefender would sometimes give me issues. 99% of the times it was completely unintrusive, but there were 2 or 3 programs, such as games, that would either not run/install properly or stutter a lot even with BitDefender disabled, only resolving it when I completely uninstalled the AV.

[@SalvadorSTMZ]

I experienced the same thing with Kaspersky Cloud free. Some local connections would not function correctly even after disabling Kaspersky completely. Only way it would work is by exiting Kaspersky or uninstalling.

[@altep8148]

Open DNS is another great tool to protect your network. You don't have to install something on your computer to eat up resources.

[@chrisfahie2767]

It can't get anymore simple than this. Thank you soo much howtobasic!

[@lightdelegate]

Thanks for all the tools, but I didn't get exactly how to recognize what is running and can be removed and the same about the processes :(

[@averageconsumer007]

Please do an indept video on autoruns and process explorer.

[@markganus1085]

just downloaded autoruns and was able to disable a lot of bloatware (edge, ie, google update etc) that i wasn't even aware was residing in my pc. this video is the real deal

[@aldrydd1]

Thanks for the advice!

[@antonbellis2397]

best guide! use a tool to examine the dozens of windows built-in processes or use a hex editor to view some lines of the few million lines of binaries. bro you deserve nobel price

[@vonderkof]

As to the Autoruns and Process Explorer - Isn’t it easy to replace legitimate auto startup program or a process to be replaced with malicious code using a legitimate name? Eyeballing auto started programs or a processes, will do nothing for a general user to identify malicious software.

[@TheCocoaDaddy]

Awesome video! I was surprised by the mention of Comodo firewall. Is the default Windows firewall not as good as the Comodo firewall or does the Comodo firewall simply have useful features the Windows firewall doesn't have? Also, would it be worth running the Comodo firewall on a machine on a network that's behind a pfSense firewall? Thanks for posting!

[@dave6593]

I second this^

[@jackmio]

he showed in a previous video that any virus worth their salt can run a command to allow themself through the windows firewall

[@TheKb117]

Waiting for experts here...🙏

[@leeuniverse]

Windows Defender is "okay", but Comodo Firewall would generally be better. Also, it allows you to "configure" what you want to connect to the internet so you have full control, gives you alerts when things are connection and you choose, etc. You can configure it to work how you want. Windows Defender in contrast is stupid... Personally right now I'm using "TinyWall" which works in conjunction with Windows Defender if I remember right (doesn't replace it), so I have control of things still but the basic firewall is still there. But, I used to for years use Comodo and was happy with it, good for the general user.

[@TheCocoaDaddy]

@@leeuniverse Thanks for the info!

[@Cepterman]

According to my friend, this is one of the best videos ever.

[@erickvond6825]

SpyBot Search & Destroy has been one of my favorite Non-Microshaft utilities. I know a lot of you are going to scoff at it. I use what works and it has a free version.

[@notta3d]

Wow! I haven't heard that name in 10 years.

[@malcolmmarshall4371]

£22.00 a year that not free

[@lumi_project]

a free antivirus suggestion i have is Smadav it scans your disk, system files, even portable disk like flashdrives, it has portable version so you can put it in a flashdrive and plug it to your computer when you need it its virus database is community fed, meaning that anyone can upload a virus to its database to make the antivirus stronger. The Pro version is also very cheap, only 2,40 USD per year for 1 computer license and 13 USD for 10 computers

[@kinsurance1228]

I would add malwarebytes to this. The free edition as a scanner is really good but premium version with all the goodies has not let me down for many years now.

[@i-..--..--..-i6985]

It misses stuff just like they all do. To get a heavily infested system clean you need to run several different programs in serial sequence. MalwareBytes, superantispyware, rogue killer, etc…. Before some genius pops up and says ‘just do a bre metal reload”, there are times you can’t do that for many many reasons. Old custom software that only runs on that old janky pc that no one even remembers who wrote it much less how to reinstall and configure it on the one in a million chance they actually have a copy of the installer. I’m not saying malware bytes is bad. It’s not. It’s great at keeping a clean PC uninflected. But in 27 years of working on PCs I’ve yet to see an all in one virus/anti malware software package that gets everything off an heavily infected PC in one pass.

[@kinsurance1228]

@@i-..--..--..-i6985 Well i agree with you :) there is no "One option that does it all". Still, if the user is using common sense along with Malwarebyte and premium edition of Eset or Kaspersky i belive you will have a pretty clean pc

[@i-..--..--..-i6985]

@@kinsurance1228 “Using common sense”. 😂🤣😂 I’d be out of a great job if that superpower was more common. I have multiple clients I HAVE to put a blank Word document shortcut on their Desktop. “Why?”, you ask. So they can open it and hit print to get a blank sheet of paper out of their printer to scribble on. Because opening the paper tray is to hard. Not kidding. Not one bit.🙄

[@kinsurance1228]

@@i-..--..--..-i6985 To be honest, i feel you. It used to be common, now it feels like a "super power". The war versus stupidity is over. We lost ........

[@hbarudi]

Bitdefender and even norton have some of the highest detection rates on the market and can be used for your daily driver computer. But if we are talking about an infested pc, it is another story.

[@CrazyCat229]

Thanks so much for making this video its soo hard keeping up with all the new good programs that don't cost money!

[@PurpleCrow27]

Anyone got direct links to these original sources/coders/creators/websites?

[@Zadok77]

Thank you very much !

[@NaldinhoGX]

Please sir, put the download links. Sometimes I don't trust myself enough to be sure I'm downloading it from the right place. But thank you, though!

[@zakariyaechmaili5647]

I got hooked by your channel with this beautiful video ❤️

[@KathrynsTea]

Thanks for this great introduction! Very useful for a novice as myself. Can someone explain to me please, how is a password manager better than just having a different strong password for each different account? Is it not fundamentally less secure to have my passwords all stored beneath one master password? If that master password is exposed in some way, doesn't this make all of my accounts now vulnerable, especially with autofills?

[@hugbearsx4]

Nobody in their right mind will tell you that a password manager is better than strong individual passwords. That being said, when one has to deal with dozens of passwords (multiple email accounts with multiple providers, utility providers, online shops, social media, forums etc) I can't imagine how anyone could handle all this information. So when one jumps from theory to practice the conclusion is that a password manager, while not „the best” solution, is the optimal compromise.

[@KathrynsTea]

@@hugbearsx4 Thanks for that explanation! It makes more sense as a trade off.

[@stevenliv5069]

One would expect the password manager to have 2FA enabled, so you are pairing a master password with the extra protections of 2fa.

[@Snarkapotamus]

Not really. Most people will simply store their passwords either on their phone or start writing them down on sticky notes and plastering them to their monitors/desk for all to see! I use a password manager every day and the only things you really need to be sure of when using one is that you use a super long/tough password (preferably 2FA), that you don't leave your machine unlocked when away from it and that nobody can shoulder surf...

[@KathrynsTea]

@@Snarkapotamus Thanks for that explanation. I thought I was missing something that made password managers impossible to crack.

[@andreiacatarinapereiramont5784]

This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

[@hircine92h]

Hello Leo. I have a question: Since you've been using Windows 11 for some time now, would u recommend switching to Win11 right now for a gaming user? and is it stable enough?

[@hircine92h]

@@excaliburx6356 Thanks for the advice. Other users told me that its stable and its as good or even better than Win10. Looks like I need to wait few more months before making the switch.

[@Mario583a]

Windows 11 has been stable for gaming since forever.

[@augusto3045]

Hircine, i have a ryzen 5600x 16gb ram e vídeo 1650ti and use Win 11 Pro and ok for games i play normal with 11 and i recommend you can use normal, so can upgrade of 10 to 11 and have fun too just need get used to the new changes but you'll like it I'm fine with Windows 11

[@hircine92h]

@@augusto3045 So is it stable enough? Should I make the switch now or wait for few more months? Thanks for your reply.

[@augusto3045]

@@hircine92h I've been using Windows 11 Pro 64-bit for a while and everything is normal here. Just updated here a new KB and everything is normal. I would update it, yes I think it's stable.

[@apreviousseagle836]

I'm a big fan of NetLimiter as secondary firewall (over the main one like pfSense)

[@bazexists]

I installed comodo firewall and my pc wouldn't boot up until I system restored to before

[@bf584]

It came up as a virus according to windows defender.

[@b.c.2177]

How about using Portmaster instead of Comodo Firewall?

[@millanferende6723]

Hey PC Security thank you so much for recommending Comodo Firewall to us! It, combined with free Bitdefender and ConfigureWindowsDefender, has made me actually feel safe on my computer, for the first time in the past 5 years. (long story..) Could you please comment, if you would be so kind, what is the difference between the Free firewall and the Paid version? The latter has "Sophisticated buffer overflow protection", but is that really needed? What does that help against? (let's say if you are dealing with a live hacker on a network) Thank you and keep doing what you are doing!

[@rogermeyer5695]

I would like to see AVG internet security and avg vpn current test

[@Ironbuket]

Dont use bitdefender. It is broken at the moment and runs a forced scan every login 1hr after system up uses 100% disk and 15%cpu for 6-10mins. They are planning to fix this in the May 4th patch, try it after that if you like, but support say it will still run but and may be able to be turned off by users after that. Currently and for the last couple of months these forced scans have run and ignore the client's drive exclusions and all other settings turning off scans.

[@fadyalhabib5127]

bro, you just helped me with the malware I was facing thank you a lot keep going love you your the best

[@kamranrasheed4180]

Dude we want another Kaspersky vs Bitdefender 2022 for free and paid suite 🔥🔥

[@j0hnr3x]

Kaspersky is Russian so I think this fact alone makes Bitdefender 99% more secure.

[@kamranrasheed4180]

@@j0hnr3x There is no technical evidence that proves Kaspersky spies for the Russian govt

[@tma78]

i'm no boss at pc security, but i have been using bitwarden for a few years now. i ended up setting up multiple accounts, 1 that has 1 password within it that is 128 characters long and nothing else. the email account for that isnt registered to anything else online and both master password and the email is in my head and not written down anywhere. it gives you access to the main paid account which has everything, plus it has a Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC requirement as 2fa. figured if they can get through all this then they can have it.

[@-zerocool-]

Awesome video. Id like to see a head to hgead between Kaspersky AV vs Emsisoft AV. I recently switched to Kaspersky because Emsisoft I felt was slowing my system and running it hot. Also, a mix of Glasswire and Comodo Firewall would be one epic Firewall!

[@bazexists]

Gotta pay for glassware :/

[@noisewaveofficial]

ahh, i see you like to being spied on.

[@scootbmx01]

@@noisewaveofficial ah I see you like being paranoid

[@augusto3045]

Emsisoft leaving your pc slow?? I have been using Emsisoft for over 6 years and it has never slowed my pc down. On the contrary, this new version is excellent, everything managed by the panel, I even have several clients who use Emsisoft Business.I added here all the Emsisoft Enterprise processes on my machine and gave the value of 557.40 megs in memory of use. Is this slowing down the pc??

[@Yshtola.]

noob question about password managers, how are all your passwords safer in the hands of another company?

[@TheRossMadness]

An interesting free tool set is Comodo Cleaning Essentials. It’s basically SysInternals with built-in scanning through Comodo’s malicious signatures database. It would be neat to see it tested against Sysinternals to see if Comodo has done anything valuable making it. I’ve had some techs I’ve trained prefer CCE over SysInternals because it felt easier to use.

[@nilpo]

As far as I know, CCE hasn't been updated since around 2016. And the website currently doesn't load. I'm not sure this is even maintained anymore.

[@tobias86aa]

When i try to run it full system scan it corrupted my computer and preventing me from booting into my computer.

[@gecsus]

DNS Bench checks and rates DNSs and can help you set the best and the most secure DNSs. I am an ex-pat that lives in China, and to avoid monitoring, I select DNSs that they do not own. It's free and pretty simple to use.

[@Optimise247]

Glasswire is great. You can set it to show you everything that makes a new internet connection. And you can set it to do automatic virus total submissions of programs and show you the results. Many governments have been advising against using Kaspersky

[@SelecaoOfMidas]

Be aware that the Kaspersky warnings are as much 5th Gen warfare propaganda as they are healthy suspicion of anything on the internet.

[@hircine92h]

oh ye because you absolutely "should" listen to what governments say

[@marcel_max]

Thanks for the info and the video. Is using comodo firewall enough so I can turn off windows firewall?

[@Vilematrix]

Thank you Leo. Ive downloaded autoruns64 and found out that my WPS tool of my wifi dongle had a keylogger bundled with it, now i could remove its boot entry :). Also can you make a video about the dangers of pre loaded software on USB/SSD/HDD's? ive recently bought a external samsung SSD and its pre loaded software installer is actually a full fledged spyware and keylogger. It was the tool that comes out of the factory and was counter signed and ranked as good by most AV vendors. Its purpose was to provide a option to set a passphrase and update the firmware of the controller.

[@RogueVigilante]

this is very true however your wifi tool most likely was a keylogger for other people not for you but to capture passwords lol

[@beaem8132]

Thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one

[@joepjoep9531]

Nice list. But as a free password manager and or paid I would rather choose keepass and my main reason not to use bitwarden unless self hosted is that it servers are in a five eye country. What do you think of this Leo. Curious for your answer. Also because for syncing reasons I am thinking about Nordpass based in Panama.

[@diysguy7277]

I have a different question; in Win 10 and 11 I opened Task Manger and under the Startup tab, Windows Defender of disable. I don't have another Virus or internet security other than what is provided by Microsoft. with that said; should Windows Defender be disabled? Windoes Security is Enabled but wondering about Windows defender...

[@1KEL0S]

I don't know if I am the only one having this problem but when I installed Kaspersky cloud protection it uninstalled my kaspersky total security anyone knows why? And also anyone knows or have article about the difrence in kasperky versions by a region (you have to check for what region you want) and I would like to know if there is any defrence between them.

[@NO-END]

Cant run both at the same time.

[@davidwildermuth6796]

I want your opinion on AVG free Antivirus, I have been using this free software for a very long time, just want your opinion on it. Thank you

[@mahoganywood6468]

My favorite security tool is virtual machine.

[@bazexists]

VMware/virtual box 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@nigel3270]

Awesome video buddy!

[@edge9380]

the problem is not if kaspersky is safe or not to use, its from Russia

[@ltitus8900]

I agree with everything except the password manager. Can you share more details on why you recommend having a password manager please?

[@thetrackerlist]

A good password manager can encrypt your password, and differently from a browser password manager, its not store anything on computer's temp files, so no malware can access it. I'm using Bitwarden for 3 months, the reason i started using a password manager is because i found this temp file with my passwords and this is not safe. Before i knew about Bitwarden, i hear about LastPass, a paid password manager, but they got hacked and some data leaked somewhere, at least for now, Bitwarden doesn't have any hack incident and the core functions are free and open source, also both LastPass and Bitwarden has encrypted data, that means even if their server get hacked or something (Like what happened with LastPass), your data is supposed to be safe since its waaaay harder to broke it, if you not trust on Bitwarden's server, you can self-host, so that's why i choose it. In short, recommend you to not have any password stored on your computer or browser unless you have a way to encrypt it, the safest password manager in the world is a notebook and a pen, but if you are like me and wanna some comfort, you should give a try on Bitwarden, i also recommend you to use something like Protonmail to create your Bitwarden account, since its a 0 knowledge service and all your mails are also encrypted. Thats all, have a nice day!

[@ltitus8900]

@@thetrackerlist Thank you for the response. Truly, ANYTHING connected to the internet can be compromised. I am not familiar with Bitwarden's self host features however, I know of and have been directly involved with issues involving compromised pgp systems along with other high level system security issues. I do not remember exactly when board level security compromised became a thing however, I discovered, reported and mitigated these same issues long before I officially studied the topic. So in short, even though it is opensourced, Bitwarden is in the same boat as every single password manager ( IMHO ...until proven otherwise - 😇).

[@thetrackerlist]

​@@ltitus8900 You're absolutely right, and I agree with you, I don't have much important things in the web, the ones who are I just write down anywhere, its way more safer and the ones who aren't go to Bitwarden since its safer than browser's auto-fill. Thank you for your opinion, I hope I helped you a little!

[@christophertstone]

Have to give a thumbsdown. Most of these are great, but Kaspersky is the subject of 83 FR 28141. It's a rule for government contractors and suppliers, but it should give serious pause to anyone considering it "security" software.

[@wijaya.s507]

This is a good video and nice channel, may i know where can get the process explorer?I'm a bit worried if i go online by myself. :)

[@JimmyStark77]

Kaspersky = Headquarters : Moscow, ‎Russia

[@GersonHM4]

Can you use comodo firewall with another AV? cuz I have the bitdefender firewall, is it good enough?

[@SayneTV]

Really awesome video and especially inspiration. Thank you !

[@smilelifeisbeautifulwithou7945]

what is the lightest of them all - but not bad antivirus ?

[@jonboy4329]

it's always a good day when you learn something new.

[@wendys390]

I'm sorry I can't get the name of that tool you're referring to, a scanner? It sounds like Barstool.