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kazza64 ago

i downloaded tor a couple of times and it wrecked my computer

Tallest_Skil ago

Fucking lol, stop going to CP websites, then. The fuck are you doing still running Windows XP? Of course an operating system that downloads anything without your consent is going to fuck itself up. Of course turning on automatic downloads is going to fuck you up. A sane person doesn’t allow any access to any content that he doesn’t expressly affirm.

kazza64 ago

yeah i just downloaded it i didnt even use it and it still wrecked my laptop i dont have the stomach for the dark web and ive met enough psychopaths in real life thank you without trolling the dark web for more encounters with the same

Tallest_Skil ago

Sounds more like you didn’t get it from torproject.org, then. That’s the actual website.

kazza64 ago

thanks downloaded it and used it for the first time

Tallest_Skil ago

Stay safe. Make sure to go to the settings immediately and turn off the ability for the browser to send you ANY requests (microphone, camera, notifications, location, etc.). Then click the shield (somewhere in the main bar, or you can do it in the settings) and ensure that you have it set to at least “safer” (where it only loads JavaScript on secure sites) or “safest” (where it doesn’t load it at all). Then for finding tor websites, you’ll want to know an onion search engine that doesn’t index CP. Ahmia fits that bill.

kazza64 ago

thanks ..... to learn more about this kind of thing which IT course should i study ? i would like to know as much as i can it gets frustrating

Tallest_Skil ago

That’s a bit of a tall order… There’s a lot of specialized ground to cover there. For a regular user, you only need to be aware of a few things.

  1. Always have an adblocker. Malicious ads masquerade as regular website elements, so the best thing to do is just block them from showing up in the first place. You want uBlock Origin on all your browsers.
  2. Ensure that any site on which you input information is secure. You can install the HTTPS Everywhere extension to automatically force all websites with secure versions to load them. Otherwise, if it’s not HTTPS, don’t give ‘em any information (shopping, personal, or otherwise). You can go there, sure, just don’t input anything.
  3. Never download anything from a website you don’t trust. Might be easiest to have your browser alert you every time a new site tries to download anything. If your actions didn’t explicitly cause a download notification to pop up, deny it.
  4. Never run any application you don’t trust. Goes hand in hand with the downloads; if there’s an EXE or BAT in your downloads folder and you don’t remember downloading it, delete it without running it.
  5. Never put any of your personal information on the Inter...oh, wait, it’s not any of the years between 1985 and 2003, and so everyone ignores that. No one gives a flying fuck about the most common sense things anymore…

kazza64 ago

thanks for your feedback :) i appreciate it .... i'm going to start with the most basic course at my local tafe and work my way up