Re: MonaRonaDona


"PD43" <pauld1943@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been surfing the 'net for 15 years and have yet to get my first
virus/malware infestation.

I find that seriously hard to believe.

Sorry... it's true. And for probably half of that time I ran without
virus protection.


It has frequently been demonstrated that if you connect a PC to the internet
without a virus checker then the longest it is likely to last before a virus
invades is around 15 minutes. And that is without even opening Internet
Explorer at all. Many of these viruses and worms simply look for
unprotected ports and install themselves. Many have become infected between
the time they install windows and installing the virus scanner and firewall
(though windows XP SP2 has alleviated the position a little by including a
firewall - of sorts).

It's simple: I don't visit strange websites, don't download from
unknown sites, don't do file-sharing and I play safe with email.


It is not necessary to do any of these things to get infected. For all you
know, your PC could have been silently infected with a bot of some sort and
is even as you read interfering with something somewhere - and you can be
totally unaware of it.

Even if you keep your virus checker
as up to date as you can, there is always a short interval between the
release of a new virus and the virus checker gaining the ability to detect
it. As for other malware: have you tried a scan with AdAware and other
similar products? They usually turn up all sorts of surprises (and plenty
of them to boot).

Stopped doing that a couple years ago... all it ever found was
"tracking cookies". I now regularly check my cookie file and delete
those I don't want (CC Cleaner).

I don't do anything you don't do except keep my protection up to date, but
every malware scan still turns up a lot more than just 'tracking cookies'.


.

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