Quote from: Green on August 24, 2012, 03:16 amI don't think that the issue of malware is covered enough on this forum. Considering malware would render any FDE attempts useless, I'm quite surprised there isn't a sticky covering this subject. It's scary that LE can sit outside your house and inject such things as worms and alike onto your system as easy as that! RIPA allows them to do this easily too!I agree it's important, but at the same time it's a last resort defense, your primary defense should be your anonymity, then plausible denibility. After that, you probably should stop thinking 'evasive maneuvers' and lawyer up by putting an awesome attorney on retainer. I'd be interested to hear other opinions on general strategy vs tactics though.Quote from: Green on August 24, 2012, 03:16 amI scanned my system with the ESSET Online scanner as well as my system scanner which showed no results for any malware. I downloaded a process explorer to see if I could find any suspicious processes running that are not listed as a Microsoft one and check .dll files and file types associated with keylogger. Googled any that were not. I checked the programs listed in my firewall to see if there are any I didn't recognise, as they have to send data back to the owner, and nothing out of the ordinary was there. Scanned my system in safe mode with spybot as well as my usual antivirus and again nothing came up! The problem is that there are certain kinds of keyloggers, that are literally impossible for software to pick them up. Unless you live in China, these should have to be installed as physical components though. That's why I'm a big fan of anonymity first. In order to compromise a machine, they first need to know where it lives.Quote from: Green on August 24, 2012, 03:16 amI hear such things can be impossible to detect even with good antivirus. Also that your firewall might not necessarily detect malware sending data back as the packets are small and slip under the radar. All this is 'bro science' I read from the web, so any corrections in what I have said are welcomed :)It is possible. I mean a malware could hypothetically encrypt the data e.g. recordings from a microphone, screenshots, keystrokes and send it as (pseudo) SSL packets. I doubt the best hackers would want to work for LE though, kinda doesn't fit with the entire ethos of being a hacker, albeit I'm sure there's a few hypocrites out there.Quote from: Green on August 24, 2012, 03:16 amAs for Liberte not running... I think that maybe the USB drive might have some bad sectors on it that could be stopping it from writing. Just a guess. I tried installing it from the .iso format and it failed also. Tried installing tails to see if that worked, but again that failed. I did disable my antivirus for a short while whilst attempting again, but same error :PI will buy a new USB drive and try again. Checking for malware on my system is not really becuase I want to use Windows permanently, rather its to see if my SR activity has been monitored by local authorities -adjusts tinfoil hat- 8) I really can't be bothered will the ballache of having my post monitored and deliveries not showing up.I think you are best off moving to Linux if you're concerned about LE malware. I too think LE malware is going to be an issue in the future, with possible mass surveillance programs (unlike ECHELON, which as far as I can gather passively sifted for threats to western powers, existential attacks on the State as opposed to the normal back and forth of internal dynamics of government and its host environment).Also, even if Linux was not more secure (which it is), Macintosh and Windows are pieces of software which are made by organizations which are LE attention whores beyond reason. Look at all the cock mongling Skype and Microsoft are doing for the FBI and other LE, it's ridiculous, our tech companies, from Cisco Systems to Vodafone to Websense are doing their level best to aid blatantly despotic regimes while Julian Assange and Jacob Applebaum are being monitored like they were trying to blow up buildings. Good job guys. Real patriotic.