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[zirkoni]

In the last ~5 years I have regularly used the Internet my antivirus has never detected any infected files, only a few false positives (some old DOS games).
But I still wouldn't remove my antivirus. Better safe than sorry.

[yoga]

Wow!

What a "friendly fire" from good AB members.

Except John_Sabugs.
Ty, dear John.

I repeat> i visit only AB, Youtube,Uesp/viki and Bulgarian info site Diary.

No porn, no casinos!

No PayPal or like in my PC.

No any social net.

Do not believe me?

Ok. Enter Google and write down word "yoga". Enter. You will receive 406 000 000 results, but no my pic(s) or other info.
Because i avoid membership(s) in any site(s).

I know very well that NO absolute save or protection. But keeping good save Inet behavior one may reduces the risk of threads.

I know very well that the situation from book 1984 of George Orwell step by step is approaching now.
The Big Brother is here. Your location is known, your habits are known, BB knows very much about us.

..

yes, yoga is crazy.
But who is crazy yoga?
He is the brave..

ha ha ha

My dear all,
our world progressed because of crazy ones.


yoga the wizard

[MyVitalRemains]

Originally Posted by yoga

No porn...

That's 99% of the internet, and you cannot use it.

[Lulu_Jane]

You raise a good point there...

[MyVitalRemains]

Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane

You raise a good point there...

Let's not forget the 0.5+% that comes from free music downloads and file sharing stuff. So he can only use less than 0.5% of it the internet and its almighty power. Poor guy.

[Japo]

You're right. I'm not very careful about what sites I visit, but I care about security, since like most people I use the computer for everything including banking etc. But I have very little faith in anti virus software , I think Jonh Sabugs is very right on the money. However I do use it because it does no harm either. (This means I don't use the kind that ask you about stuff, I tried them in the past but I don't think they offer better protection after all.)

Anti virus software is a minor and auxiliary part of computer security. It's like in a movie, that tiny object someone carries in his shirt pocket, and when he's shot it stops the bullet and saves his life. Well that means he got lucky, not that it was an adequate protection. (Although I'm not saying the odds are comparable, it's just an illustration.)

Remember those hated UAC popups in Windows Vista (which were relaxed in Windows 7 because of consumer feedback)?
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/...ccount-control

Disabling this Windows feature is the single most damaging move you can make against your own security. Installing anti virus software while having this disabled (like most people do) is like walking around in the jungle where any wild animal can eat you, but wearing a helmet. And some of the people who complain about UAC being too annoying use one of the very popular client firewalls, which are pretty much useless, and far more annoying.

I could go on, but the point is that people's idea that having anti virus software makes you safe and not having it makes you unsafe, is radically wrong.

[Lulu_Jane]

In Yoga's defense, there is anti-virus software that behaves suspiciously like a virus itself.

Norton, I am looking at you.