Ahhhhhh that’s something I didn’t know and will give it a shot after I clean of the the slightly different variety of the anti virus scumming sucking scam that I just fucking got AGAIN!!!
Also you should run Firefox with adblock which means you never are exposed to ads that might contain a virus.
BTW, I got hit with this nasty virus a few times on an old PC that my kids use. Since I could not trust my kids to keep that PC clean that machine now only runs Linux.
I have seen these things infect a machine where the user does not have admin (or even power user) rights. This took me a while to figure out.
Ultimately, I determined that the machine wasn’t infected, his user profile was. You could log in to the machine as a different user, and never see a thing. The infection was in a section of the Local Machine section of the user profile - delete that, and everything was good. (The Local Machine is for machine-specific details, and is not copied to the user’s roaming profile. If it is deleted, it is recreated from scratch the next time the user logs on. No big deal.)
We had a rash of three or four users infected (out of 285) about four months ago, and I haven’t seen anything since - I presume our anti-virus got smarter.
Another thing I do since I had problems is I always keep Malwarebytes running. That way the virus cannot prevent it from starting up. If I think I have a virus I immediately run a scan with Malwarebytes.
From Greg Bear’s “Slant”, a near-future scifi book written in 1997:
"Also in the late twentieth, with the advent of popular computers, dataflow evolvons were unleashed by pasty, sweating young intellectuals as a kind of game, and were called viruses. They were quickly and efficiently countered, though several such outbreaks caused severe economic disruption.
One prominent computer HACKER or CRACKER was kidnapped from Los Angeles in 2006 and removed to Singapore, where the death penalty was imposed and carried out, after extensive torture…"
Thanks. I think it was a different one. Different name, graphics and behaviour, but maybe not. This last one was harder to get rid of but eventually Malware Bytes on safe mode got it.
Do you mean load the software on 1 machine but run it on another? You can do that if you have 1 machine act as a server on your network, then all the other machines can connect to the server and run software on the server. However in most cases you still need to install at least part of the software on the machine it runs on so that may not really work for antivirus software.