migrating to windows 8.1 from windows 7

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If they are email attachments, and you are not 100% sure they ought be there, and you don't know what they are, then you don't click on them period - even if it did come from you granny. Users of a computers must take responsibility for their own actions. ...

BR

you are preaching to the gallery - I know what not to do, it's the rest of the houshold that I worry about. I watched my wife react to a PDF invoice from holiday Lettings in her inbox a few days ago by double clicking it with no further thought - luckily it was a genuine invoice. I have her PC set up to send backups to google drive for her, but ransom ware can get into cloud accounts from the local PC & proceed to lock up the backups - only an offline backup is safe, and offline backup procedures can't be automated, someone has to connect / disconnect the relevant memory stick each time . and it is convenient to have all PCs on a local network, with write access to public folders, for moving stuff about

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@cybmole
But I am quite convinced that mouse-centric people are more susceptible to malware infections that keyboard centric people.


BR

My wife seems to only look at the mouse pointer.

I watch the entire window/screen for 'change' while I mouse.
I have status bars showing for everything (Web, POP3 Mail, NNTP) and only click when I see the URL I deem OK in the status bar. (Some bad links are very sneaky)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by cybmole

it was all going far too smoothly, Kindle for PC installed & books downloaded OK, then 40 minutes for pure frustration with networks settings: win 7 PC could see win 8 but not vice verse. tablet could not see win 8 either. lots of repetitive box ticking in advanced sharing & finally it decided to behave, or i hit the magic combination of "share stuff goddammit and "don't hassle me about passwords". so now it is satisfyingly insecure, like other stuff in the house & we can write stuff to public folders from anywhere. But I will add the latest anti-ransomware cryptoprevent to offset that.
I invited myself to join dropbox via a different email and used that link on new PC, picking up 500Mb for the referral, so now I'll sign out, & sign in to to the main dropboax account instead and that will copy over my calibre libraries backup.

when you guys are done with debating jump lists, I'd appreciate your take on ransomware vulnerability. google is telling me that it CAN get into win 8 and can bypass both UAC and defender ? in which case I may as well turn UAC off ?

I have Win 8.1 and Win 7 both talking to each other. The Win 7 systems have accounts I've created just for networking and the Win 7 systems use the account the Win 8 systems use.

This way, the systems can see each other no problem. But you do need password protected networking.

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I have Win 8.1 and Win 7 both talking to each other. The Win 7 systems have accounts I've created just for networking and the Win 7 systems use the account the Win 8 systems use.

This way, the systems can see each other no problem. But you do need password protected networking.

our wifi is password protected, so is the router. our wired LAN & our powerline not - someone would have to be in the house to access those & there's no sensitive data kept in public folders