Hacked and banned

[heyaz]

how the hell do you guys keep getting hacked like every day? Stop clicking the wii sex toy links ffs.

Actually, better yet - stop signing up on peoples' forums/sites with your email and same password - oldest trick in the book.

I just have trouble believing, especially as a security analyst that works with this kind of stuff, that these keyloggers and malware are not easy to avoid. I don't even run anti-virus.

Two factor authentication is nice, but also not falling for malware scams that explicitly require you to take action (rather than just propagating themselves unbeknownst to you).

Also most modern anti-virus and anti-whatever never find a thing, even when you are compromised. Their blacklisting approach is flawed, and the heuristics are just fail. I ran every major anti-whatever for years and they never found a single piece of malware, not even once - and this is when I used to use file sharing programs which are littered with malware. You can even build a test box, put known malware on it and watch modern AV's fail to detect anything.