Good stuff. This helps me at my level of IT support/knowledge. Your content helps me understand malware activity and the tools I can use. FYI. Understanding how malware works has helped me stop a network enabled ransomware in our business. It escaped AV and encrypted 1000s of files but was manually stopped because I had some understanding of the nature of the attack. We had good backups so two fingers at the authors. Thank you for your content.
I would like to see how common this is for Linux and Mac computers, vs how many for Windows only. While it only takes 1 malicious process to be running, I still find it shows a general risk factor.
@@lilwoodiewood3457 Either use your AV's exclusions list, or switch to an AV like Kaspersky, BitDefender, or ESET that doesn't have so many false positives.
It may have just been a prank-virus that shuts pc down. When i was in school, i (almost) got in trouble for making one of those because the previous guy didnt log out. I wanted to prank him for the lulz. Made a tiny script, and replaced the iexplorer shortcut. My teacher was pretty cool about it and just took me from my class to remove it. God i loved that teacher!
A bit of an offtopic: i'd like to watch some kind of tutorial how can you detect or even clean *some* malware from a win10/11 machine when there is no antivirus available nor any specialised tools. Just using bare windows and standart programms what is possible to do? (there was a number of situations in my life when it was needed). Thanks!
Now I'm curious if any of the modern malware and viruses would work on older Windows versions, say Win7, XP and 98. Also I'd be interested in seeing this done for Mac OS, Android and Linux. I mean I think Windows programs are going to need a compatibility layer to run on Linux and Mac OS but I'd be curious about how much trouble you could get into if such a thing was installed on a non Windows system.
malware authors usually just cobble together poorly conceived bs and hope for the best, or they are terminally online on the garbage dark web ui refreshing the page for vulnerability exploits, which they copy and paste on their trash software. most hackers arent smart. They are just script kiddies who need to reinstall their os every month or so. The companies and government especially police are just incredibly inept seemingly 70-80 iq on average.. Also white hats are huge simps for black hats/ criminals. Red hats are effective but too rare to make a dent in the cybermoron sorry ‘black hat’ population.
The answer is the companies are so inept that only a moron needs to make malware to get into a macos. Most malware cannot work on mac because of how the system works. The sandboxing and restrictions on functions cripples malicious software. However even apple is hopping on the idiot band wagon and adding a bunch of idiotic features that the legitimate user would never use. The reason computers get hacked is because of pointless functions that seem to only be made for hackers.
I am willing to visit every single malware and dodgy site in the universe. I've been fighting Google, whilst keeping the internet from failing all together. Not quite blacklist the world, but close enough. Anyone ever try to Geoblock China? It does weird things to internet traffic lol.
So, in that case you can hack your computer back and inject and force the execution of the program “Tron”. It searchs, kills all malware and may take hours but it’s 100% effective to this day. Bad thing is your cookies and temporary files will be erased no matter what.
I wonder if the price of the ransomware is targeting executives (top of the company), not grunt (normal) employees. It's basically targeting executives (judging by the nearly 18 grand a month) without telling us they're targeting execs.
Might be a bit hard to do, but would be interesting to see some MacOS stuff since a lot of users nowadays use Macs. But getting MacOS on a virtual machine might be a bit hard haha
Yeah that's fair, good to know it's possible. I just thought, knowing what Apple is like, they've probably made it really hard to run Ventura for example on other stuff that's not their own M1 or M2 machines. But yeah, would be interesting to see how bullet proof MacOS is. I know in the past at least there seemed to be an attitude towards that Mac is a bit more secure than Windows. But because a lot of people use Macs nowadays, could be interesting.
FYI, Zemana as a company is completely dead. Their software has not been updated in years, and their support email does not exist anymore. Though, not using Zemana products does nothing to protect you from their vulnerable software...
Awesome video! Thanks for posting! Would it be possible to do a browser user agent "spoof" test to see if changing your browser agent has much of an impact on malware installed via browser? Thanks again for posting!
What I dont understand about ransomware is that at some point, you have to convert that into actual, usable currency, and it is at that point that your name will be attached to it and governments will come find you. So it just dont make sense.
How come the ransomware didn't change all the malware packages to .knight? And if they did somehow copy everything that quickly, would they now also have the malware folder?
Sadly that ransom note with the average $18k/month average salary per employee, could be more accurate than you think, due to the insane pay gap between most top level management and executives and the lowest paid front line workers. 😢😢😢
Need your help. I came across a malware which try to download itself in a chrome. So there was site, which opened a new tab and then next thing i saw that it was trying to save some php. How can malware automatically save itself from a site and how to protect from it?
Man thanks for the content, it's always interesting and cool. But i have a problem: if i scan the sistem with my av (eset) it says to me that there is a potential threat and it's a variant of UEFI/CompuTrace.A (a file i think) in the firmware. can you tell me how to fix this? i tried to eliminate the file i but i can't "find" it (sorry for my bad english, i'm italian).
ok so my asus laptop got this message back then, and what happened is it just fucked up my laptop, I can't believe it was malware, it bypassed my windows defender? and yes that laptop is now extinct and I'm just taking my files from it's hdd (which I am also scared because it can infect my new laptop)
My guess is the major source of malware comes from college students and unscrupulous developers of anti-virus software trying to increase their product sales.
Viruses dont have to big at all, a lot of them try to hide their virus status by being a file that is jist barely big enough so the scanner doesnt bother with it or too big to upload to virustotal, however theres plenty of scary scripts that basically are made of small parts that download the rest of the virus to complete itself so it can escape detection from scanners
Hi @pcsecuritychannel I rarely leave comments on videos but I had a question on why u use or prefer windows over any Linux distribution,, especially knowing that windows has the bloatware, telemetry and most apps being proprietary?
Simple answer: no. However, it is possible in general the same as with any website due to A. A Twitter impersonator site or B. Twitter’s own website is compromised. An actual stream of video/audio data is not executed as instructions and is only ever interpreted as data.
That "Updates are under way" prompt was so clear and direct that it couldn't possibly have been from Microsoft. 😂
Actually that is a legitimate message that real Windows systems (since some 2021 Windows 10 Insider build from March iirc) have used
@@tejasraman6913 I would love to see that in the wild. But I doubt. It's not their style for the last ten years or so.
@@MikaelKKarlsson it is real, i have windows 11
its real, i used to have windows 10 22h2 and that prompt exists
it's real i use win11@@MikaelKKarlsson
The best part of this video is to see and hear how much fun you had 😅
Good stuff. This helps me at my level of IT support/knowledge. Your content helps me understand malware activity and the tools I can use. FYI. Understanding how malware works has helped me stop a network enabled ransomware in our business. It escaped AV and encrypted 1000s of files but was manually stopped because I had some understanding of the nature of the attack. We had good backups so two fingers at the authors. Thank you for your content.
You should have run it again while windows defender is ON, to see how it can preform against latest malwares.
Noneless good video
It would be interesting to run some inside something like Sandboxie, then examine the filesystem of the sandbox to see what the malware had created
i fucking knew you didnt hang yourself
This asf
I would like to see how common this is for Linux and Mac computers, vs how many for Windows only.
While it only takes 1 malicious process to be running, I still find it shows a general risk factor.
True same with a basic Debian distro (maybe Mint) out of the box would be very nice to see
Observing antiviruses thwart malware is intriguing, but it's even more amusing when they mistakenly block benign software.
hoow do u get it to say your not a virus every peace of software i make says its a virus when its not
@@lilwoodiewood3457you need a certificate for 30$ :(
@@lilwoodiewood3457Code better.
@@lilwoodiewood3457facts
@@lilwoodiewood3457 Either use your AV's exclusions list, or switch to an AV like Kaspersky, BitDefender, or ESET that doesn't have so many false positives.
Straight to the point, no long intro, you earned a subscriber.
I would like to see this become a series against anti-virus programs, or will they automatically block anything from the open source database?
That was fun :) Do this regularly. It could be valuable if you happen to find something cutting edge by accident
It may have just been a prank-virus that shuts pc down. When i was in school, i (almost) got in trouble for making one of those because the previous guy didnt log out. I wanted to prank him for the lulz. Made a tiny script, and replaced the iexplorer shortcut. My teacher was pretty cool about it and just took me from my class to remove it. God i loved that teacher!
A bit of an offtopic: i'd like to watch some kind of tutorial how can you detect or even clean *some* malware from a win10/11 machine when there is no antivirus available nor any specialised tools. Just using bare windows and standart programms what is possible to do? (there was a number of situations in my life when it was needed). Thanks!
Now I'm curious if any of the modern malware and viruses would work on older Windows versions, say Win7, XP and 98. Also I'd be interested in seeing this done for Mac OS, Android and Linux. I mean I think Windows programs are going to need a compatibility layer to run on Linux and Mac OS but I'd be curious about how much trouble you could get into if such a thing was installed on a non Windows system.
malware authors usually just cobble together poorly conceived bs and hope for the best, or they are terminally online on the garbage dark web ui refreshing the page for vulnerability exploits, which they copy and paste on their trash software.
most hackers arent smart. They are just script kiddies who need to reinstall their os every month or so. The companies and government especially police are just incredibly inept seemingly 70-80 iq on average.. Also white hats are huge simps for black hats/ criminals.
Red hats are effective but too rare to make a dent in the cybermoron sorry ‘black hat’ population.
The answer is the companies are so inept that only a moron needs to make malware to get into a macos. Most malware cannot work on mac because of how the system works. The sandboxing and restrictions on functions cripples malicious software.
However even apple is hopping on the idiot band wagon and adding a bunch of idiotic features that the legitimate user would never use. The reason computers get hacked is because of pointless functions that seem to only be made for hackers.
I am willing to visit every single malware and dodgy site in the universe.
I've been fighting Google, whilst keeping the internet from failing all together.
Not quite blacklist the world, but close enough.
Anyone ever try to Geoblock China? It does weird things to internet traffic lol.
Usually no as they lack the proper code and exploits used. Also lacks the power needed even on modern hardware for some reason
I tried running various viruses and mallard on my Dell windows xp laptop, and a lot of it couldn't execute. Or some were stopped by my AV
I am here and excited to see what the video holds!
So, in that case you can hack your computer back and inject and force the execution of the program “Tron”.
It searchs, kills all malware and may take hours but it’s 100% effective to this day.
Bad thing is your cookies and temporary files will be erased no matter what.
I love these videos. Thanks for doing what you do brother
I wonder if the price of the ransomware is targeting executives (top of the company), not grunt (normal) employees.
It's basically targeting executives (judging by the nearly 18 grand a month) without telling us they're targeting execs.
Now you should do a video on what Malware removing program will work on a infected malware machine.
1:57 you should do this again but with mobile malware.💀
Might be a bit hard to do, but would be interesting to see some MacOS stuff since a lot of users nowadays use Macs. But getting MacOS on a virtual machine might be a bit hard haha
Pov linux: lemme plug in my usb and fire up a live OS
It’s not hard, but you do need to spend some more time with the configuration since most VM software isn’t designed with running macOS in mind.
That would be pretty interesting
Yeah that's fair, good to know it's possible. I just thought, knowing what Apple is like, they've probably made it really hard to run Ventura for example on other stuff that's not their own M1 or M2 machines.
But yeah, would be interesting to see how bullet proof MacOS is. I know in the past at least there seemed to be an attitude towards that Mac is a bit more secure than Windows. But because a lot of people use Macs nowadays, could be interesting.
Watching this I immediately said to myself time to make a full backup....LOL
FYI, Zemana as a company is completely dead. Their software has not been updated in years, and their support email does not exist anymore.
Though, not using Zemana products does nothing to protect you from their vulnerable software...
Could some of the malwares escape the virtual machine to host machine?
bitdefender kicks butt when it comes to dealing with ransoms
viruses be like:this system aint big enough for the 2 of us partner(*shutsdown pc*)
Awesome video! Thanks for posting! Would it be possible to do a browser user agent "spoof" test to see if changing your browser agent has much of an impact on malware installed via browser? Thanks again for posting!
If I did it on my school wifi I would probably get in trouble/ possibly blocked from using the wifi at least temporarily
Nahhh... You will just get a 7 day ban from life
Brave, very brave! LOL, Thanks for the content!
What I dont understand about ransomware is that at some point, you have to convert that into actual, usable currency, and it is at that point that your name will be attached to it and governments will come find you. So it just dont make sense.
More videos like this please! I enjoyed it :)
It is nice to see eset represented in your videos
Love your videos man!
Can you make a video on how to decrypt ransomware?
Great experiment. Are any malware evolving to detect and overcome the limitations of virtual environments?
Would love too see how multiple AV react to sampling getting download and started
so even if u dont open the file ur pc can still get infected? 0:49
Tip: when testing viruses, u should probably turn off your Internet from the vm because the viruses might be worms and can spread through your network
Don't most VM's use separate ip's and connect to different networks rather than using your home network?
@ShadowOfXlife sometimes the virus might try getting into the wifi network
Great video 💜!
Now please repeat on macOS and Linux 🤓
As always, great vid!
Where do you get your malware samples from, if I might ask?
Questions: what happens if you *don’t* have Windows Defender nor any antivirus at all? Is there anything at all stopping malwares?
How about doing this test again but with a good commercial DNS filter next time?
Totally do more about new malware please.
Bro I got anxiety just seeing you click on all those things o_O
How come the ransomware didn't change all the malware packages to .knight? And if they did somehow copy everything that quickly, would they now also have the malware folder?
Aoemie partition wizard and the like are malware right? How do you get rid of them?
Could the share the script?
Link to open source site where you downloaded the malware samples? For science.
Is it impossible for the malware to effect your base system when running it on a virtual machine?
Sometimes malware can escape from a VM, but it's uncommon as far as I've heard
@@starryskies0 how does that happen?
Sadly that ransom note with the average $18k/month average salary per employee, could be more accurate than you think, due to the insane pay gap between most top level management and executives and the lowest paid front line workers. 😢😢😢
Make a Emergency Folder then Run Rkill first then run Tronscript Simples.
Did anyone tell you hypervisor escapes and check exist befoee attempt this glorious event?
good demonstration of guardio
Trial Malwarebytes only for VM? Do you use Windows, if yes, do you use Anti-malware/virus, and if yes, which one?
Yeah definately more experiments like this
This was fun. Please do more like this
Need your help. I came across a malware which try to download itself in a chrome. So there was site, which opened a new tab and then next thing i saw that it was trying to save some php. How can malware automatically save itself from a site and how to protect from it?
you deserve more subs ngl
This brings back rogueamp memories
Man thanks for the content, it's always interesting and cool. But i have a problem: if i scan the sistem with my av (eset) it says to me that there is a potential threat and it's a variant of UEFI/CompuTrace.A (a file i think) in the firmware. can you tell me how to fix this? i tried to eliminate the file i but i can't "find" it (sorry for my bad english, i'm italian).
how can i download this python script?
keep up
7:22 That creator string is written in Georgian... Interesting.
supp, Malwarebytes beta version 5.0 is available, can you do a test on that new version?
Would love to see a new Browser Showdown with the new DuckDuckGo browser
Would you upload .py script/file?
Would also love to have a copy of the script
ok so my asus laptop got this message back then, and what happened is it just fucked up my laptop, I can't believe it was malware, it bypassed my windows defender? and yes that laptop is now extinct and I'm just taking my files from it's hdd (which I am also scared because it can infect my new laptop)
that good video but can you give me the source code for test him in my vm
can you give the .vmdk file to the vm you use in every video?
My guess is the major source of malware comes from college students and unscrupulous developers of anti-virus software trying to increase their product sales.
why didnt you just select every folder and run it
Malware is like an unwanted child. It can be prevented by using protection.
yea but sometimes there is a hole in the protection and the best way to prevent is to not be reckless
5:15 checked the wallet, 0 transactions. Doesnt seem to work that well, does it 😂
Which AV is the most effective.
More of these please!
Got alot of time for this🤣 very good
Can you please do a test of Malwarebytes 6.1. Thanks!
I've Gotten the Check your health pop up
May I have the wallpaper, please?
6:00 shots fired 😈🤣
hey leo i dont mean to bug you but every time join your discord server i get banned for no reason please help
How big do viruses actually have to be to do damage (word file size or MB game mod size)?
Viruses dont have to big at all, a lot of them try to hide their virus status by being a file that is jist barely big enough so the scanner doesnt bother with it or too big to upload to virustotal, however theres plenty of scary scripts that basically are made of small parts that download the rest of the virus to complete itself so it can escape detection from scanners
Small as they can download other malware.
It was funny and still dangerous!
can u do a kaspersky update?
Hi @pcsecuritychannel I rarely leave comments on videos but I had a question on why u use or prefer windows over any Linux distribution,, especially knowing that windows has the bloatware, telemetry and most apps being proprietary?
If it could have been stopped by Windows Defender, I don’t think it should count for much.
You didn't made the video length 13:37 minutes... missed oppertunity right there.
is it possible to get maleware on your PC when you are watching a video on Twitter?
Simple answer: no.
However, it is possible in general the same as with any website due to A. A Twitter impersonator site or B. Twitter’s own website is compromised.
An actual stream of video/audio data is not executed as instructions and is only ever interpreted as data.
Good experiment but not very scientific if you are running several at a time. I would like to see how many can beat Microsoft Defender.
For science! 100% safe and effective!
where is that script dude
Why didn't you use Kaspersky?
He only used 2nd opinion scanners. If he has av's enabled, the test will not run.
"I am running this with no protection, not even Windows Defender." Why are you being redundant?!??? 😂
Any malware like Seroxen?
can u provide this python script link
Talk about pc accelerant please
Hi, can you show how to remove some UEFI Virus?
FOR SCIENCE
Updates are underway?!!!?? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Visiting 100 webs and the ved has 100k views