5 replies to this topic

[agumon]

how offen do you guys get a virus and/or worm and/or trojan horse and/or spyware infection?

[rridgely]

In the past two years I have never gotten a virus or trojan horse, this is because I have been using a firewall and av. Yes, I know that you can still get them but as long as you dont visit questionable sites and download suspicious programs than you shouldnt get any.

Now as far as spyware/adware goes for about the last two months I get 2-3 s a week and they are just cookies. This is mainly because I use firefox, before I would get 15 or more a week and they would be a lot worse than just cookies.

[Andavari]

I've never had a virus, trojan, or worm on any of my two systems (Win98, WinXP Pro), and I've been using Windows-based PC's since September 1998. The only thing ever detected was given the moniker "suspicious," and only F-Prot and BitDefender ever labeled a file as being "suspicious." I have however had a fair share of false positive alerts from virus scanners over the years.

The last spyware infection meaning I didn't know the application installed spyware was in 1999, and came from so-called "free" download managers. However I quickly found out how to manually delete the spyware, I don't think that would be such an easy task nowadays.

[Tarun]

I honestly can't remember the last time I had a virus (that infected me) or any malware, etc. I used to actually play with viruses and stuff for fun, and learned how to code a few that would just be annoyances. (Constant reboot gags, etc)

[agumon]

so all your antivirus are "put for show" only...?

[Eldmannen]

Rarerly, it is easy to avoid to avoid most of that by taking care which software you use and to be security-minded.

My mother and brother have had tons on their computers though...