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Most people can visit that page fine. I'd guess GEMS either doesn't use SSL or the certificate has expired. Really it's on the GEMS team to sort out whatever is triggering that warning. Edited by Pickysaurus
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Totally agree with this. I too was an avid user of Avast 4+ years (and previous to that, used AVG for 3+ years at home). In both cases; I eventually stopped using them because of many false positives which could not be rectified through a controllable whitelisting system, and their reporting mechanism and remedies for these problems was ineffectual.

Thankfully; Microsoft's previously poor AV products have much improved, so I use that for basic cover now. Malwarebytes is a solid product for all the stuff which gets through the cracks. Even the free/trial mode is a life saver. Sometimes I use Sophos too (as I get home license coverage from work). It's always been very solid (due to good support - not just the client software), but it can be a bit over hard on the machine performance for gamer type scenarios. It's best left on your 'work' machine..
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IT engineer here. You know what the absolute worst thing is for password security? Complex passwords. Counter-intuitive, I know, right? But longer and more complex passwords lead to people reusing more passwords and saving them in Word or Excel documents on their desktops. That's why Microsoft has minimal complexity requirements but encourages (and in some cases requires) MFA. And the cool thing about MFA? A 6 character simple password is no less secure (and arguably more secure) than a 12 character complex password as long as you use MFA.

 

And what's funny is seeing supposed security people talk about brute forcing like it's still how accounts get cracked. "Gotta make the passwords harder to guess!" as if anybody's trying to guess it. Nah, legit hackers don't brute force anymore. If they want your password, they send you phishing e-mails, malware with keyloggers, malware that takes advantage of password manager vulnerabilities (and you thought that would keep you safe), or the real good ones take advantage of website vulnerabilities to steal hashes (oh, look, what happened to Nexus). I do still see brute force attacks, but only in business and they're pretty lazy attacks against outdated protocols where the attacker figures "if they're still using PPTP then they're probably using stupid simple passwords".

 

But what this really boils down to is Nexus screwed up by having bad security and instead of fixing their $%^& they make their users jump through hoops that meet (outdated) "security best practices" but don't actually improve security.

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Remember the hack, when a 100+ megabyte file was replaced with a few kilobytes file (if I remember good) ? How can a 100 digit password help you then? I am not saying that one should not use such passwords, I use combined and different passwords for each account myself, but you know what I am trying to say.
I downloaded the file and ran it. Since then, penis extensions offers have been sent to my (dummy) email address :D Edited by zlostnypopolnik
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Systems Engineer here:

Don't make suggestions if you don't know what you are talking about. Windows Defender isn't a bad anti-virus product in real-world scores, it's better than nothing, but it isn't better than Avast. Avast consistently scores better in real-world tests and has less performance impact.

See for yourself:

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

https://www.av-comparatives.org/consumer/ Edited by quadraphone
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Systems Engineer here:

Windows Defender scores in the middle of anti-virus products on the market, in real-world AV tests. . It's better than nothing, but it does not do a much better job than Avast or AVG, both of which consistently score near the top. Edited by quadraphone
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Please limit recommendations to something you have expertise in. If you aren't a doctor or a nurse practitioner, don't hand out medical advice.
If you aren't an IT professional, don't hand out anti-virus recommendations. Edited by quadraphone
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Malwarebytes is a great tool for removing malware infections, but as an anti-virus platform, it is below the middle of the pack in real-world tests. In short, the performance of it's resident protection modules are unacceptable.
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This sounds like a malicious script stored in your browser cache.

For future use, you can use a free tool called CCleaner from Piriform to clean the caches of multiple browsers at the same time, and the Windows system temp files:

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds
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