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  1. 1PW
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       #11

    jonnied12 said:
    Plus I'm only out $20 bucks till the end of the year.
    A recent change in Malwarebytes policy allows a 60-Day Money Back Guarantee if you aren’t fully satisfied with your Malwarebytes software...

    Reference: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...omment=1374901

    HTH
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       #12

    1PW said:
    A recent change in Malwarebytes policy allows a 60-Day Money Back Guarantee if you aren’t fully satisfied with your Malwarebytes software...
    I haven't tried this yet...

    Norton VPN -

    VPN | How to use a VPN for online privacy and data encryption

    FWIW.
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  3. 1PW
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       #13

    Malwarebytes Privacy (MBP) was updated to v1.2.0.244 yesterday.

    Release Notes: https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/...-Release-Notes
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       #14

    don't get me wrong i never trust anything that says it doesn't log your info, i bet the moment a judgment comes down from some government agency asking for info they will cough up all they have on any said person. nothing is 100% not traceable in this day in age. Tor itself was compromised a few years back by the nsa and fbi ruining rouge exit nodes. i myself use nothing i could care less if the gov tracks me or looks at my history i hide nothing .
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  5. 1PW
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       #15

    Hello @Tonyb

    If a VPN service provider intentionally does not log data in the first place, how fruitful is a governmental demand for data that does not exist?

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    Compumind said:
    I haven't tried this yet... Norton VPN -
    Although my current knowledge of the Norton Secure VPN product may be quite stale, the Norton folks may not have embraced the distinct speed advantage of WireGuard technology yet. I'm sure they're looking at it though. Many other providers are using it now.

    Cheers
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  6. Posts : 231
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    So far I am pretty happy with Malware Privacy. They are beginning to incorporate more features, and plan to include more features in the near future.
    Depending which server I am connected to, my DL and UL speeds are as fast as my subscribed internet service.
    If I happen to get connected to a slow server, I just turn off the connection and reconnect. This will give you another server.
    The only thing I would like to see is more locations in the US. I guess they need to build a larger customer base at this time to justify adding more servers and locations.
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  7. Posts : 161
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       #17

    1PW said:
    Hello @Tonyb

    If a VPN service provider intentionally does not log data in the first place, how fruitful is a governmental demand for data that does not exist?

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    Although my current knowledge of the Norton Secure VPN product may be quite stale, the Norton folks may not have embraced the distinct speed advantage of WireGuard technology yet. I'm sure they're looking at it though. Many other providers are using it now.

    Cheers
    Tonyb said:
    don't get me wrong i never trust anything that says it doesn't log your info, i bet the moment a judgment comes down from some government agency asking for info they will cough up all they have on any said person. nothing is 100% not traceable in this day in age. Tor itself was compromised a few years back by the nsa and fbi ruining rouge exit nodes. i myself use nothing i could care less if the gov tracks me or looks at my history i hide nothing .
    Well, both Tor and the internet itself was created by the US government. For a while it was their baby and they did what they wanted with it until they handed it down to academic establishments who opened this technology up for wider audiences. Tor was created as a means to get communications across enemy lines in many adverse scenarios and the communications still remain secret and encrypted. I believe one of it's first missions was in Vietnam for conveying messages to personnel on the battlefield, specifically intelligence on Vietnamese local populations for use in covert operations. The internet was devised primarily as a means to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear war and was designed to be hardened to the destruction from nuclear attack. It was only designed at first to connect very few places together in the hope important parts of the US government could remain in communications with each other, namely important places that many people will have heard of including the White House. Before long it had extended to more academic institutions and many overseas as well. It grew and grew until it is now the global phenomenon everyone knows today. So you're hardly talking about some magic thing that appeared randomly. Both these technologies were created by the very government for military purposes. It's wise to note that the majority of funding to the Tor Project still come from the US government. This you can check for yourself as being a non-profit they have to list all their donations and funding sources. There you will find US government funding under the guises of seemingly innocuous names. They are still behind the scenes the biggest contributor to it's continued growth.

    In terms of VPN, the logs HAVE to exist. It is mandatory by law that VPN providers keep certain logs for a certain period of time unless their services are hosted in parts of the world where these laws are not applicable. Also, all VPN providers will keep logs period. What is kept however is another thing altogether. All VPN providers have to keep payment details, this is basic knowledge these days. They also can and often will keep access logs which will include the time, date and originating IP address. Many say this information is not logged but it makes no sense from a maintainence and analytical perspective to not know who is connecting to your VPN servers. Those that do will often be your crusaders for online privacy and freedom and sadly these entities no longer really exist anymore especially in the mainstream because they are often investigated by authorities reguarly and many are forced to close or comply.

    And you have to bare in mind that as soon as a VPN provider hosts a server in a particular country where these laws DO apply, well, they also come into the purvue of that jurisdiction and their applicable laws. As far as I know Malwarebytes is an American company and I can assure you a majority of their servers will be in America where the idealistic beliefs you share do not apply.

    It's nice to believe what you believe but it's simply not true and if you were to do your research and study the laws regarding services hosted in many countries you will see that logging as well as data retention of all kinds is mandatory. In some countries however certain aspects are not mandatory but these countries are growing fewer by the year. Even some of the most privacy conscious countries now have some form of law that requires companies to retain information for a given period of time before it can be removed. And in many cases they will automatically comply with overseas requests as lots of agreements and incentives to comply rest on these partnerships.

    Malwarebytes unfortunately will be more compliant than you believe. If you go for a VPN provider where privacy laws are more pronounced you will find that providers have to do far less in terms of complying with requirements by governments. For example, Romania has pretty good privacy and so providers based in Romania do not have to be forced to comply with far stricter requirements like that of their American and/or European counterparts. Another country is Switzerland and Iceland also Sweden to an extent. Providers in these countries may have to do some sort of dance to make the powers that be happy but they do not have to rip holes into their infrastructure so that these powers that be can walk on in without an extremely just cause.
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  8. 1PW
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       #18

    supermammalego said:
    All VPN providers have to keep payment details, this is basic knowledge these days.
    Hello @supermammalego

    Some VPN providers are now accepting cryptocurrency and gift cards for payment.

    We will have to wait for the remainder to play out.

    Thank you.
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  9. Posts : 161
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       #19

    1PW said:
    Hello @supermammalego

    Some VPN providers are now accepting cryptocurrency and gift cards for payment.

    We will have to wait for the remainder to play out.

    Thank you.
    In the last several years it has become mandatory for cryptocoin exchanges to require identification for purchasing currencies. Depending on how much you want to buy and how much freedom you want on these exchanges is determined by how much identification you can provide. It is not uncommon for people to provide full identification. Some websites do however require minimal identification but you cannot buy that much coin with your account if you provide minimal ID. Also, with limited accounts you are also limited to what payment options you have and these are nearly always bank account transactions whereby you have to have a valid bank account in order to buy. A valid bank account requires identification in order to setup. Identification ties you back (obviously) to your person. Alas, the whole premise of cryptocurrency is now void. Governments did this so that they could attempt to centralise an otherwise decentralised payment method. By requiring companies who sold coin to demand their users pay with traceable payment methods they bypassed the nature of obtaining the coins anonymously. And now it is the law in many countries for cryptocoin exchanges/markets to require customers to pay with methods that can then be linked back to their person to prevent money laundering, sales that are linked with illegal activities etc.

    You can still pay in cash and many of these markets/exchanges provide this method. This is the only method of obtaining coin which is largely private. You meet someone with coin and you pay in cash, you trade when in proximity of one another, you get your coin and they get their money.

    If you're paying with bitcoin any other way your coin can immediately linked back to the transaction you made on whatever market/exchange you bought your coins from. Most people pay this way and it's stupid. They believe they are doing something cool and private and undercover but really they are really putting on a bed sheet over themselves and walking down the street believing no-body can see them. And what is even more worrying is companies offering these types of payment options do not advise their customers on how to best purchase these coins in order to maximise the whole point of paying with them. And so, like I said, people go to these markets/exchanges and pay for cryptocurrency and EVERYTHING is IMMEDIATELY traced back to them. So why not just pay the old fashioned way and stop kidding yourself into believing your transactions are more private? And if you don't want to pay the old fashioned way learn how to go about obtaining cryptocurrency in a way that maximises the concept of their existence in the first place.
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  10. 1PW
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       #20

    Malwarebytes Privacy has been updated to release v1.3.0.261 today.

    Announcement: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...261-available/
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