Signal hygiene through sovereign rituals. No AV. No telemetry. Just grit and glyphs.
This codex documents personal encounters with malicious software and the sovereign rituals I performed to remove them—without relying on corporate antivirus tools.
I do not condone, endorse, promote, or participate in the creation, distribution, or use of malware. I am not affiliated with any individuals or entities involved in malicious software development or propagation.
This documentation is shared for educational and archival purposes only. It reflects my own experiences and signal hygiene practices. It is not a guide, tutorial, or encouragement to seek out malware or engage in unsafe behavior.
⚠️ Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any consequences, damages, or disruptions that may occur should you go looking for, downloading, or interacting with any software, programs, or files referenced in this log. Proceed at your own risk—and preferably, don’t proceed at all.
Symptoms: Obviously, your first line of defense should be a proper antivirus. But if you're like me and prefer sovereignty over dependency, here's what I suggest.
Ritual: Use a tool like Process Lasso. The goal is to starve the virus of your PC’s resources. Process Lasso lets you tweak process behavior—most notably, assigning specific processes to designated CPU cores.
Outcome: If you’re running an Intel CPU, you’ve got P-cores (performance) and E-cores (efficiency). Assign the virus’s PID to an E-core, preferably the last one available. You’ve now locked it to a single core typically reserved for background tasks. It’s not a full purge, but it’s containment. A digital quarantine. From there, you can monitor, isolate, and eventually remove the threat manually.
To be continued...