Facebook Sold me this Antivirus USB - FixMeStick
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We’ve been seeing a ton of ads for the FixMeStick lately, and it sounds like some kind of computer repair cure-all device. Can it really fix viruses and get your old computer running like new?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:28 In a Nutshell
4:00 How Much?
4:40 Marketing Claims
5:10 DIY
6:20 BackMeUp
7:13 StartMeStick
8:33 DIY 2.0
9:10 A Mixed Bag
10:40 Outro - Наука та технологія
Don't most computers these days come with "boot from USB first" turned off? Turning that setting on in BIOS/UEFI is a colossal barrier to this product's intended audience.
fr. i can imagine someones grandma just plugging it in and never booting it, thinking it's doing something
I'd be really curious how this stick interacts with Secure Boot xD
RIP BRO. Wana bet they are ok with this outcome. @@memesfor1192
@@FunielAudioProbably doesn't lol. Even Ventoy requires you to enroll their secure boot key yourself.
@@dustojnikhummer Shit I still need to do that lmao.
I used to work in IT support for a large government organisation. We would very occasionally ( not often at all ) get a genuine "Where's the any key?" call. Our required response ( without laughing ) was: "it's the Space Bar".
It's always easier to give a simple answer like that than say something vague but more accurate like "just pick one, it doesn't matter" otherwise you could get confused protestations or they might make a poor choice like ESC or F2.
@@PalladinPokerYup, I learned that the hard way as a child. My mother got a "press any key" prompt when booting the family computer. She asked what to do. I told to do just what it said. She said she did. I said fine, press a different key. She did, and nothing happened.
Turns out the keys she had tried were ctrl and shift.
A this point if someone makes a tech support question for this, it should be cause for termination. There is no reason someone who is that tech illiterate should be working in government... or any company for that matter. Time to retire grandpa/grandma!
No, it's the "A" for "any" 🤣😂🤣
@@adondrielAs much as I understand your point, I've met plenty of immigrants and trades people that have basically no computer experience. Just because someone works for a government or organization doesn't necessarily mean they're doing a computer job
Would have been nice to see how Windows Security fared against the same batch of malware compared to the three used by the stick
Yes! This!
Windows security is best out there. There are channels who do this.
Edge and Windows security always come out on top in those virus protection tests.
Yoooooo hylics
@@LogicalError007 It’s almost like they get they’re able to source data from almost every consumer and workstation PC on the planet 😱
It’s actually a good strategy though, as much as I’m against the endless telemetry, more aggregated threat data is only a good thing
@@demen9497Hell ya
"In our not terribly scientific testing" didnt age well. LMAO
Secure boot, encrypted drives, and booting off a usb drive are all road blocks for this being viable for its target audience.
asking an end user to plug in a usb drive is alreadz past most people's capacity
Right? This should definitely have been mentioned in the video, or did I miss this?
@@xxxeeerrrooo They didn't. I was also curious.
the people who buy this are probably still using core 2 duos so secure boot isnt a problem.
Booting Linux via secure boot is trivial and many distros come OOB with secure boot support via Shim.
Linus is still not over the hijack 😭😔
😂
true
Well, can milk it to earn money on it :P
he was naked when he was trying to get the hackers out
It was a big event for him
Here in Germany there is a IT directed magazine called c't.
Every year they release a special Desinfec't Edition which is basically a Fixme stick.
Like the Stick it's easy to use, uses Avastr, ESET, F-Secure, Sophos and Open Threat scanner as engines, and has a one year update-license for all included scanners.
When someone asks for something like this, you can easily build a Bootable stick with all AV- definitions downloaded.
It costs just 5,90€ which is the magazine with a serial number included to download the iso or 16,90 for them to send you a Bootable USB drive alongside.
So from my point of view, regardless of how I look at the sticks presented here, they all scream ripoff.
CT Notfall und Desinfect sind Lebensretter
just wanted to comment about that too.
but does the update for the scan engines really expire?
I thought you could still use 2021 desinfect, it would just need longer to update?
unless Avira or else did mainly rework their scan engine.
What are you going to do to address the horrible way you treated Billet Labs?
Facebook has over the years become a pretty bad place for ads. All of the scams has discredited the legit companies. IMO at least.
kinda like UA-cam is now ...
Who in the last twenty years have seen an ad on the internet and gone "I should engage with this as though it's a real thing I should consider" and not "this is a thing in my way that will probably scam me somehow if I'm not careful"?
@@meowmix705 Or google searches just casually placing literal scams at the top of the search list.
@@meowmix705 yea I haven’t really thought of that (ad blocker)
@@meowmix705 like every single company kek
The “idiot tax” is pretty high on this one
It's crazy thinking how much you can save by just knowing what you're doing, not just in this field, but any field! You can't beat free, or even the price of a cheap blank USB stick
like they say, the expert mechanic takes $1 for the price of a screw but $99 for knowing where to screw it
It's high with computer stuff in general
Probably because theyre getting 2 support calls that last 2hr each for every 1 usb sold
@@avisprimey I know it's a cliché, but nothing is free. You will, at the very least, pay with your time reading manuals and searching through forums. The real benefit is that you can learn reusable knowledge instead of paying every single time you encounter a problem. Not to mention, in this case, you can be certain whether it's done correctly or not. Some so-called 'professionals' have no clue about what they are doing, all the while charging ridiculous amounts of money for their services.
"We didn't sell it we auctioned it"
You lived long enough to see yourself become the villain
How exactly could the non tech savvy consumer for this product be expected to change the boot order in the BIOS? The target audience for this product has never heard of or seen their computer's BIOS.
Not even that. Even if your laptop/desktop has "boot to USB" enabled and in 1st priority, good luck getting past secure boot
@@dustojnikhummernot to mention that the people who aren't tech savvy often have relatively old computers from companies like Dell and HP, both of which aren't gonna have a modern BIOS with mouse support which is polished; it's gonna be bare bones and look unfamiliar and scary to your average user.
@@dustojnikhummerSome BIOS in specific motherboards hides the secure boot option and can only be accessible through advanced BIOS settings (require special key combinations that are different in every motherboard models)
@@randommcranderson5155 You'd be surprised. From my experience working in IT support , most adults who are not tech savvy will get incredibly frustrated with this type of stuff. Most aren't sufficiently motivated and will likely give up long before they get sufficiently motivated.
@@dustojnikhummerif the company set everything up correctly then secure boot shoud just work on most computers since there are linux bootloaders signed by microsoft (PreLoader and shim). Issues might only arise if someone is using a computer without MSs Third Party certificate enroled (only realy happens with enterprise machines).
Good luck getting my mom to figure out boot menu.
Exactly
Can't you just plug it in while the computer is on, run it and get it to work that way?
@@aight365no that's not how it works. To put it really loose terms, think of it like a different operating system that you need to boot into right after you start your computer (before it boots into windows i.e. the windows logo appears). Again, emphasis on "loose" terms.
@@crabnixpretty sure they do have an exe on the usb to reboot into the usb if its already booted into windows, saw someone else comment sumn like that
Man you got one hell of an echo chamber on your forums
they failed on their target market's first rule: DON'T ASK A LESS TECH SAVVY USER TO BOOT FROM USB DRIVE
they solved that, if you boot into windows and put it in, it has a program to automatically boot from usb for you
@@LiEnby so how long before all malware obstructs that tactic, if they aren't already? USB bootable recovery existed before this product did.
@@sireuchre I mean, you answered your own question... USB bootable recovery existed way before, and malware still has no "standard" in obstructing that. So why should this change just with a "new" product for your average joe coming in?
@@FeelsGouda it's a matter of proliferation. If it becomes normal for random dude to plug a USB stick and boot into it, it becomes a viable vector for say a scammer to sell similar-looking products that install malwares instead of removing them.
It's the same reason to why plane hijacking didn't really exist untill like the 1930s after civilian flight become commonplace, despite powered flight having existed since early 1900s. You can't really just waltz to any plane because most of them are tightly controlled and guarded.
For something that costs so much & wants a constant subscription and has a device limit. 91% is not really acceptable. Especially since only one of the services is actually picking up the slack.
McAfee somehow manages to be bloatware even in a malware scanner 😂
That is actually not that bad. 91% from one, but when you overlap 3 antiviruses, each will probably discover things missed by the others. In the end you are most likely higher than 91%. Sure, they could have also used BitDefender for instance, to get higher percentage from just one of them, but anyways, alit is not that bad. Btw, a good antivirus nowadays has many advantages when running the real OS as it can detect suspicious bahaviour and can also block nasty ransomware, this has good chances to miss some complex malware and/or very new ones.
they used to have kaspersky on there ..
Eventually all antivirus software tends to become adware. The evolution pattern seems to now be to start as a free product, then introduce a pay premium version, then finally either no free version or one that is constantly nagging you to pay for more features or a better experience.
Lol yeah I heard McAfee and was like LOL. they probably just wanna pad out the numbers and McAfee does have brand recognition for some reason...
hence why McAfe is only ever installed as an accidental drive by 🤣
Facebook didn't sell it to him, it auctioned it
New title: “Facebook Auctioned us this AntiVirus USB Stick”
appreciation for the 2 people who ran with a window and another one who filmed them just for a second in edit.
''What the fuck are you kids doing? Did you actually steal a window? Rascals!''
Facebook spyware shines bright on this one
True.
some would say it glows
it's not sold BY facebook
how tf does this have so many upvotes it literally isnt a FB product
@@stitchfinger7678this isn't reddit
Linus has Become businessman, and sold out he's soul
The ultimate preventative fix me stick is the USB Killer. Can’t hack my PC if it can’t power on anymore!
Or if your motherboard is well-designed, it would just have borked USB controller.
9:08 is exactly what I did for my grandpa's PC. He has a bottom of the line Emachine from early 2010s and I put a $20 SSD and a copy of Ubuntu and it works for his needs (Email and UA-cam). I have to work on it once every few months to fix something like a zoomed in window or a stuck shift key, but overall very stable.
Antiviruses are the most popular viruses ever made.
for real? can you explain?
@@denis2381 niceeee
@@NathandontknowwhattosayMcAfee?
@@Nathandontknowwhattosay Good antiviruses exist, its just a vast majority add uneeded bloat to your system and use deceptive tactics to make them seem more effective than they really are. Norton, McAfee, Avast etc are all not good choices. Avast has a history of collecting unnecessary amounts user data, Norton including a crypto miner, McAfee just being bad, intrusive and hard to remove (at least back in the day), all whilst trying to charge people stupid amounts for a subscription. There are more bad things about these programs but you get the idea.
Nowadays, I would only recommend to someone to use their built-in anti-virus (e.g. Windows Defender) along with Malwarebytes and possibly an ad blocker. Malwarebytes is unitrusive, doesn't force its way to be launched at bootup and whilst having a permium option, its not at all necessary and often is given out in 2 week trial periods that don't require the input of payment information. These tools along with caution about the websites you visit and the files you download is often perfectly adequate to keep your device safe.
@@Nathandontknowwhattosay most anti virus softwares come with a function that literally attracts viruses to you to justify you having them on your computer there’s no anti virus software on the market that doesn’t behave exactly like Malware. All you need is a good VPN and be smart online.
Computer Technician here. I have a USB Stick too! That carries like 18 different programs to deal with various threats found on my customers PCs, i've tried these all in one solutions, and even though some of them are remarkably good, you're 100 percent correct...it cannot replace a competent technician. We even have some tools that can deal with ransomware to some degree, it takes time to break the encryption and some serious computing power to do so. Thankfully there is a community out there dedicated to exactly that.
So sometimes we can get your grandma here grandaughters baby pictures back, or the greiving wife's photos of her husband back that had just died in Afghanistan (true story btw). If it's a type of ransomware that is brand new, we don't have countermeasures for them right off the bat, but with our customers we drill the 3x rule for backups in to them, especially the ones who buy computers from us.
Where can I get these anti ransomware programs in this modern day without having to pay someone to prevent paying someone else? I am a heavy computer user for most of my life and I am still too stupid to have a 3x rule for backups because I am just so lazy.
Reading 1's and 0's that havent been erased correctly isn't that advanced .... keep showing normal people what's up though...
@@casedistortedI think BitLocker might be what you’re looking for. AFAIK it’s built into Windows natively
Just like you hijacked billets prototype
The booting part in bootable antivirus stick might be a problem, given that the target demographic sometime struggles with email and the very concept of a file.
if you put it into your computer while windows is booted it has a program to boot into the USB drive, so its probably a bit easier, i saw a review on this on rougeamp a long time ago xD
@@LiEnby Im really interested in how that work, that might make this thing usable for novices. It seems that still boots into Windows first, so i am not sure its good enough for stick to work.
Kaspersky rescue disk is completely free, catches pretty much all threats you have, has much less false positives than any of those three, and also has the option to "cure" some infected files which means you don't have to lose exes that got infected by another virus
sadly ever single time i used Kaspersky few weeks later my passwords i used during that time were suddenly leaked
I find it curious Linus didn't go into depth about what came up as false positives, and how. I notice a lot of AV/security software will find false positives based on 'signature based scanning', not heuristic scanning. That means the AV intentionally made a judgement call about a piece of software for which being malicious is at least debatable, and decided to add it to their definitions with a signature. A good AV using fair definitions should see most of its false positives coming from heuristic scanning.
@@sireuchre in my experience it was heuristics that got the most false positives, pretty much anything that modifies ram or tries to alter another program is always marked as a malware, as for signature based detection, I still don't know why they mark every hack tool as a virus, in addition to every legit tool that malware usually uses, and also all cracked software, and I don't mean the one that are definitely malicious, I mean the ones clearly labeled as having no problems other than being a crack
All this got me to stop using av all together unless I get an infection and use a rescue disk, though I only use windows for some tools I need, most of the time I'm on linux
But it is from the bad russians.
@@xxxwinnersgamexxx well in fairness all country has their own bad guy and good guy.
Facebook sold you?
You bought it sir
Can't wait to tour your defunct headquarters in the not so distant future.
You guys owe Billet Labs
Big time
Linus' channel: *got hacked by Elon*
Zuck: *It’s my turn, baby.*
Now that both are done with Linus, they're having a cage fight 💀
Will the antivirus engines break operating systems that have had their OS files replaced/modified by malware? That would have been something nice to see.
Probably nothing sfc /scannow can't fix
I'd say it just deleted any files that includes any kind of malware - I'd be very surprised it if could disinfect malware.
@@Pro_Triforcer Now teach that to the average grandparent this thing is intended for. And I doubt this thing can do it on its own seeing as it runs Linux and proooobably doesn't include a Windows recovery image (which would actually make it much more desirable).
Yes. This thing did that back when my boss at MicroCenter wanted us techs to use them on customer computers. It broke the OS nearly every time. Cost the store alot of money in having to comp the cost for us to backup data, and re-install customers OS etc. Don't use this crap.
depending on the file that is infected it might not actually break the OS entirely, it might still boot but some things be broken..
anyway itd be fixed next time that component is updated with Windows Update, or with sfc /scannow
10 minute advert.
Facebook didn't sell it to you, they auctioned it.
ive been watching you since the scrap war pcs series and the content still is amazing keep it up!
It took 6.5 minutes before I realized this video was an ad.
Why does most of the world not know how to use computers
These videos seem relatively low effort/easy to make and are AMAZING, handy tech under $100 and things like this make great filler content in between the big projects! It's kinda like the old days back before you had short circuit but better
it only runs an antivirus scan, that's it? I was expecting a more polished version of Hiren's Boot CD, with many tools for many issues if I was gonna pay for it... Guess I'll just continue building repair USBs with YUMI
YUMI is *AWESOME!!!* 😁👍🏻
Yep, that's really it. Pretty scummy and lazy they don't even try to include a couple more utilities.
What? Can someone explain?
@@aight365 Explain what, YUMI? YUMI (your USB multiboot installer) is a piece of software for lumping a bunch of bootable tools into a single drive with a menu to select what ISO to boot from. Think Rufus except you can have different operating systems and tools that are all packaged separately and use YUMI to repackage them together.
People that work on computers have always tried to put together an all in one fix it stick in one way or another. From the home tech to the corporate chain tech a USB stick that does like 30 things is pretty normal, so the idea that all this one does is run an (or rather 3) antivirus scan is pretty lame at the price. You could put 3 bootable antivirus ISOs into a YUMI drive in like 5 minutes. It wouldn't run as fast since you'd have to run all 3 separately, but it also wouldn't cost $80. You could also plop the a bootable linux ISO on the same drive and not have the $80/yr start me stick. There are plenty of bootable backup utilities too that are free, which again with YUMI you could just put on the same stick for the cost of the stick.
So like even if this was a pay once price for all 3 utilities on a single stick it still wouldn't be Hirens PE (or for the old heads in the crowd Hiren's Boot CD 15.2) and nothing close to what the linux community has made in individual tools that you can put together into a single stick.
Errmm...
I notice you didn't talk about UEFI. If this manages to overcome secure boot management, I'd be surprised. Surely the value of it as "something your aunt could use" is kind of thrown into doubt...? I mean, if you haven't even checked the boot settings, it's not something you can just expect to give them and have work, is it...? Unless I'm missing something...!
All FixMe had to do is setup their Linux install with Shim and secure boot is a nonissue. Linux has been able to boot via UEFI and secure boot for longer than Windows, actually.
@@giusdbg Well I've got an old NUC and in order to get it to boot from USB at all I had to open it up and shift a jumper on a three pin header, and I needed to google the solution.
Seems to me that there's plenty of stuff that needs to be said here.
Oh yes, and I dropped a laptop and swapped out the hard drive, only to find that the actual motherboard didn't support boot from USB *at all*.
How much did they pay you
We, the Vanilla OS team, want to create the “VanillaKey” with a Vanilla OS installation that allows the user to select the drive where to store the user’s data. You may have multiple PCs, for different scopes, and a single OS installation to keep up to date.
As it is an immutable OS it may answer to the problem that those guys tried to solve but… better?
ah vanilla os ive heard of it, sounds nice
@@aperson9950 Lack of snap support is the only thing I really don't like
Unexpected hi
Linus getting targeted ads for anti-virus programs reminds me of someone else I follow who started getting targeted ads for cheating websites as soon as he changed his facebook status to "married".
lol
Yoooooooo😅
Facebruh.
reminds me of how facebook was suddenly only showing me ads for pick up 'artists' (/conmen) looking to sell me the "secret" to how I can "get any girl", right after my coming out as a gay man 🙄
@@LRM12o8 Proudly sponsored by the Catholic Church!
Why is Linus selling this so hard in this infomercial. I get shady vibes from the video and I can't shake it.
For fun, I actually got one of these fix-it software packages awhile ago. I put it onto a brand new build that had not been connected to the internet yet. Installed Win7 and installed the fix it software. Apparently, Win7 had malware built in since it found almost 20 "questionable" files on the rig. It was pathetically laguhable.
...so we've basically come full-circle, all the way back to 2009's "You have 2000 infected files! Subscribe at a huge discount to remove them!"
How can the community trust any of your vudeos
DO NOT USE FIXME!!!
My dad bought this, and kept screwing up his computer with it.
After begging him multiple times to stop using it, he finally did.
Oddly enough, I don't think there has been one problem since he stopped using the stick. The problems would start right after using the stick.
One time the Fixme stick caused so much damage that I had to re-install the OS because even trying to revert to stock install failed.
It often will cause the modern programs to not be able to run at all. Sometimes takes out pieces of the OS multimedia system, specifically video decoders.
I laughed my ass off at the “elusive any key “ but, because when I was six and trying to play a game on my older brothers computer I couldn’t find the key, and started crying, my brother started laughing his ass off and I got mad at him for laughing at me so I slammed my hand on the keyboard and when the game started I felt so confused and embarrassed. So yeah early memories 😂
Hahahaha!
I absolutely saw that segue coming and still thuroughly enjoyed it.
Justice for Billet.
Was hoping this video will talk about some good open-source AntiVirus or virus definition list
this video feels very different, love this a lot.
As someone who has been building computers for nearly a decade, I went to my first Micro Center about a month ago, and I was blown away. It's literally a Home Depot for computer nerds. I didn't know where else to comment about this, but the ad at the end reminded me lol.
I always buy a Bawls when I go there because you can't find them anywhere else
My biggest problem with this is that this is targeted to "grandpa and grandma" and yet, it requires the user to know how to but into a usb drive, which is, btw a feature that is turned off in the bios for most modern computers and laptops out of the box.
it's not turned off, just lower on the bootloader list beneath things like the C: drive and D: (dvd) drive. But you're absolutely correct in that grandma and grandpa won't have a sweet clue how to get into their bios to change that or even simply get into the bootloader.
@@nlparadox3890 thats also generally a good thing, it means if malware infects your usb drive w some bootable thing.. it wont just boot into it on startup
Most of the target audience uses an older computer that automatically boots from a usb drive and if not, one time setup by the "family IT person" will fix this.
@@AL5520 I strongly disagree. The target audience still uses Windows 10 computers, maybe Windows 7, which do not in fact boot from usb by default. As far as a "one time setup by the family IT person will fix this" this pretty much voids the entire company line on this "product" that anyone can use it.
It's a scam.
1:13 next product: The Segue Stick™
Scrapyard wars pitch:
Two (or three) competitors (or teams) sit at base. They can instruct field person / team, but this field unit can not in any way communicate back. Not even "Ok, I get it".
Field persons, not recognizable and maybe or not super knowledgeable, find loot and bring to base.
At base, the competitors try to make the components that come in make sense and aim to give helpful instructions to the scavangers.
Now, action at base will initially be slow. So, in the gathering phase, limited use of high-in-demand Linuses and Lukes.
Systems are finally assembled and compared as per usual!
This is legit basically the exact thing Staples had me do for virus removals when I worked there as an EasyTech back in 2014 even down to using some of the same engines.
Did you auction it off?
Always love seeing a shout-out for Rufus. It's spectacularly good.
I see those at Amazon all the time and always thought they were sketchy, good to know they are legit useful things with some caveats
Eagerly waiting for a new LTT video just so I can read the comments 😂
Cool video but I'd be interested in seeing a labs report comparing this method vs something enterprise grade like sentinel one or crowdstrike.
or Vs. a crowd sourced solution like Tron Script. Which also does a bit to repair the OS, clear disk space, other windows housekeeping
items, and a triple malware sweep
Come on, that's unfair. I'm pretty sure the enterprise grade stuff will do better. As the other guy said, it would be a fairer comparison to do it with the free or open source ones
I love that we're seeing more of the classic LTT video format
Terrific video. Thank you for the breakdown. I learned a lot.
Finding a Linux Live-Distro that can boot, upgrade, install software and permanently store at least some files right from the start isn't easy. You usually have to install your Linux on yet another USB-Stick ( or Drive ) for that to work, even though that isn't all that hard and comes with the bonus of allowing full customization.
Also, contrary to windows those sticks / drives don't mind switching between computer much making a USB-SDD installed Linux a pretty sweet portable OS ( regular SD Sticks don't provide decent performance and also aren't overly safe for storing important data since they wear out rather quickly if written to often ).
Is this where I can express my love of Puppy Linux? I'm not that much of a linux veteran and it's been years since I've used it, but damnit, I love that little OS family.
erh, from my experience a windows installation has no problem booting on a different device; its just often missing drivers
linux handles it better as all the drivers are built right into the kernel (which can also cause problems sometimes ;)
@@LiEnby ... this sounds like some dark voodoo, because aside from the drivers you mentioned that unlike with Linux usually need installing, Microsoft doesn't really like you using your licensed copy with new hardware nor the TPM either disappearing or screaming for all its worse that something is amiss.
These sticks cost MORE than a secondhand PC on Ebay.
I wonder if the Ultimate Boot CD is still being kept up on. It is a free antivirus and also has tools to handle fixing boot issues, formatting hard drives and diagnosis of hardware.
It's one of 3:
Linus recently cried,
he's stoned,
or he's suffering from pollen(SWFL here and pollen annihilates me.)and/or sick. "Clears eyes" it takes the red out, lmao those commercials were the best.
Ughh as a long supporter of LMG for a while with most of their t-shirts and their expensive pillow on my couch I feel like I have been played a fool. I had a significantly higher expectations from Linus and I am disappointed in him. I did actually believe he would automatically catch the lay-up no problem that Gamers Nexus sent him to solidify his reputation as a person without an ego, with high standards of integrity, self-reflection, consumer transparency and ethics.
I am glad the community is being active to keep this fire to linus and LMG on the forums and new videos because I had believed and I think most of the community felt that since he has been a large role model in the community for integrity and consumer transparency its reasonable to give him a chance to reflect and make the proper decision to the standards and values he had represented and claimed to uphold for all these years. I know being Jank / rushed / get'r done has been his brand but the community or at least I did not perceive that he held the value of janky/penny pinching over spreading misinformation/inaccurate testing. That cheapness likely did get him to where he is today and that value in being janky but when he was as broke as we were years ago it was relatable and necessary to get his business going but when your a large corpo where such levels of cheapness is insignificant percentage of the company budget it is what takes you from being a relatable individual to an evil/detached corporation.
Are you going to release a statement about auctioning off a prototype that belonged to another company?
that first sponser segue had me on the floor. Absolutely did not see that coming
I once had a virus that stopped my computer from connecting to the internet. It had locked Windows Firewall to where it couldn't be turned on/off. Even installing anti-virus software was impossible because it gets all of its updated information from the internet. I tried everything to try and get it to work through different hacks and fixes, but nothing worked. I didn't want to wipe the hard drive and do a re-install of Windows. I bought a Fix Me Stick and went through the process of using it. After using it, my computer was clean, and I was able to connect to the internet. Hate the product if you wish, but I found a very useful purpose for it. I'm not an amateur when it comes to electronics/computers, and I was stumped in resolving it without total loss. I agree it isn't something grandpa or grandma would be able to figure out, but it was a godsend for me.
Does it come up with any "infections" on a clean install of Windows? A lot of scareware products do that.
no it is atleast using a legitimate antivirus engines, -- so its not a total scam, its just way overpriced
7:10: For me in windows 11 the only built in tool to back up my files is to back it up to onedrive. Back in windows 10 i used the backup tool because it was easy to set up and convenient, but now i dont want to back my things up to the cloud.
You guys did so many videos on how to set up a NAS and that Backing up data is important. Maybe you could also do a Video to give some ideas how to back up files from your PC to the DIY NAS or the NAS OS to another network share. I think that could be interessting :)
Go to control panel and use the back up and restore tool in the System and Security tab. I still see it in W11 22H2.
@@xavalongamesx9535 Wow thank you for pointing that out. It was a bit hidden, but it seems to work. I always used the "Settings" tab but never knew that the old control panel is still there. Anyways, thanks alot :)
I'm surprised you just heard of this when it's also sold at every Staples, BestBuy, Walmart etc. I bought it many years ago, it's a fantastic product, but like you mentioned the price got me to so I didn't re-register the license, the other issue is that yes it's great as a tool to search and clean up your system, it's not an active antivirus which means it's essentially only there to pick up the crumbs your other antivirus tools left behind. These days Windows Defender is basically good enough for standard users who will utilize Edge over other browser and not require other bells and whistles.
I am forever floored with friends and family that just have this giant blank spot with tech. I mean they can use it all day long, but throw anything out of the ordinary at them and they are lost.
Like trying to login to an old online account (that uses your e-mail as the ID) password saved in password manager.. Ok everything is fine here.. but now it is sending you a validation code to your e-mail.
The go to check their e-mail and no code?!?!? what gives? lol..
the hint was the e-mail address that was part of the account name.
They were going to the wrong e-mail. It could be a past .edu e-mail address they had - or sometimes a Microsoft account e-mail account. Just not their everyday e-mail account they now use.
BUT all they had to do was LOOK at the account name and see that it is not the e-mail they are checking - They are completely blind to the fact that e-mail is not a name it is a specific address.
Yep. I deal with people like that on a regular basis where I work. I have no problem helping people with their tech problems, but it does get insane at a certain point. At some point, its less of an IT issue and user error. I've had people call our help desk asking to know what their password is. "Lady, how do I magically know what your password is? I can reset it, but I don't know what you set your password to."
What you need is a box with an ethernet port on it so you can direct connect it and have it boot automagically from LAN because if wake (or even boot) on LAN wasn't turned on before you got infested, it sure the hell is now. There's even wake/boot from WiFi (HP calls it Preboot Wireless Networking in their documentation, as HP has vertical continuity/integration in their business computing products).
What you do is any hardware that's facing risky internet has monitoring buried *below* the OS. There should be a lot of network monitoring/management/configuration tools available to you in your enterprise class/carrier grade gear.
You didn’t auction the stick off without permission did you?
Brutal 🔥
I LOVED the way this video was edited (the "zoom" transition at 1:58 was a nice touch) and the visual gags were fantastic. Whoever storyboarded this episode deserves a freeze frame ending of them holding a trophy in the air.
did they hire you to make this comment.. :P
@@casedistortedit's crazy, people can actually enjoy things that you don't.
@@casedistortedsorry, I'm in a bad mood. I think you were mostly kidding haha. :)
They just auctioned off his house to make him post positive comments, but dw, it was for charity.
/s
@@casedistorted
The intro is pure art
Some years ago, a computer store near me, had a very effective straightforward approach. Any computer computer going in to be serviced for any reason was formatted and windows was reinstalled.
Oh, you wanted to keep your documents? You don't have a backup? Tough luck.
And LMG sold me defective reviews.
You would think that along with the virus scans it would delete the windows/temp and appdata/local/temp folder items as well. Also having it do a chkdsk, sfc scan, disk cleanup, and defrag would in many cases speed up the system and give back some storage space for a little more time. Doing that with maybe a list of recommended software to turn off as startup items would go a very long way towards the bolder claims it has.
I was thinking perhaps Linus forgot to mention other speed improvement utilities it would surely have built in... but nope, I went to their site and sure enough it only does antivirus. It might have been a great value to Grandpa if it had the other utilities, and maybe also reported back some problems it finds like lack of storage, or Windows Updates not being performed and helped you do with that, then it would be cheaper than taking it to the Geek Squad or other repair store. Guess they are saving that for FixMeStick Pro 2 or something.
That's basically what we did at Staples for our virus removals, except I was way more thorough
strong "microsoft users forums snake oil" energy on this one
Having it do a defragmentation would not be optoóimal, because it would have a negative effect on SSDs
@@HossuhAffasHomBOSS Defrag can detect whether a drive is a hard drive or ssd and ignore them. That's trivial to implement.
Given that many people pointed out the boot menu thing; the second best option would be just starting the process ( or a script if using normal bootable linux usb) and review the report at the end.
okay not gonna lie that first sponsor segue was probably the best one in a while
"We didnt sell it, we auctioned it" theft is theft. trying to hide it is trying to hide it. not taking accountability is not taking accountability. unsubscribing IS unsubscribing.
Plus everything about the sexual harrassement of Madison. And the toxic culture
Oh did they auction it to you?
You know Linus, I don't have a need for antivirus, just not needed for my Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. If I were running Windows, I sure wouldn't put a USB stick with McAfee on it, that is bad antivirus software. 😎
I like the editing in this video.
the 2 guys running while holding a window in between them, when you said "get your windows running like new" was funny. well done lol
How many times has this dude been hacked 😂
Would have been great if you had gone into the privacy risks with the product...
I am guessing that the anti virus engines are not running locally with downloaded databases of virus definitions..
So if this is basicly running as a front end for a cloud system what data do they say they collect and what info do they not mention but still send to their servers???
Downloading a virus database isn't complicated and doesn't require you to send file names and data to a cloud to check against. Kaspersky cloud works fine
@@Weneedaplague "doesn't require" doesn't mean that this stick doesn't do it.
@@Jehty21you can check if it does that ny monitoring the network
@@wnsjimbo2863 lol and then what if it does? "Welp, there it goes" lmao Would never plug this thing into my computers in a million years
@@wnsjimbo2863 well, that's why I watch videos about stuff. To get that information before buying the stuff....
One of the best segues to sponsor spot to date.
I miss those intro animations 😢
why did they get rid of it?
@@legendaryofthesea3920attention spans and most other channels dont have them anymore
Man LTT should really cut back on the cringy b roll lol
I work for a large retailer that has sold this product. I think it was returned an inordinate amount, despite the fact it takes a customer satisfaction override from management to allow it (opened software products are generally not returnable). Lots of customers complaining it 'just didn't work', almost certainly because the buyer doesn't know how to make their computer boot to USB in most cases. When it wasn't that, it would likely be a misconfigured user, not malware infections. Something Linus didn't address is if this installs anything in Windows itself. The biggest problem with so many modern antivirus or security software products is they may remove the wild malware, but then impose themselves in a way that basically makes itself the malware always trying to get 'protection money' out of you.
more videos about this topic will be great
Linus, since these are linux builds, how do they interact with secure boot which is mandatory for windows 11
Shim.
You can sign linux to be able to boot them even if you have secure boot turned on . Fedora , Ubuntu and OpenSuse all have this functionality
2:17 And loads up THREE anti virus engines.
Three of the worst regarded anti virus companies... Would love to see some actually respected antivirus's :/
I don't actually know about sophos but avira and macaffe are literally ad/mal/bloatware by very scummy companies
Can you name some respected anitvirus's?
i can understand the doubt against avira and mcafee, but sophos? sophos at the very least is a pretty well respected company, especially in their end-point protections and firewalls for enterprises.
Sophos is one of the better ones.
Avira is meh.
McAfee I agree is garbage though...
They should've included Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Sophos, Eset...
@@yotoprules9361 Kaspersky? Really? I wouldn't have thought that anyone would still recommend them 🤦♀️