Re: Do i need to install an antivirus software if....
- From: Husky <cbminfo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:34:36 -0400
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:23:00 +0800, "Õý°æÓû§" <weiruanmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx·´À¬»ø>
wrote:
>I seldom download anything from the internet
>never open any attachment in e-mails
>always update windows from windowsupdate
>running xp sp2
You don't have to download anything from the web. The majority of malicious web
pages don't care if you want it or not. And in most cases won't even ask your
permission to stick it on your machine.
Do you know when you're being lied to ?
You could best answer that question if you can ask the same question this time
next year with the same clean machine.
ie: My virus software updated the pattern file yesterday.
It found 1 that I've had on my machine for years.
It also found one in a restore point.
Both items that make them older than a week.
The one in the restore point is so new that it has zero information about it.
I get alerts just by getting email even without opening it. I switched to agent
specifically because OE automatically launched every virus.
A text email reader can't automatically launch anything destructive [yet].
If your times worth less than $40.00 an hour, I'd say go without the virus
software. You can get a reliable virus scanner for that much a year.
>i had an antivirus software installed in another pc for a year. for the
>whole year, i only got an e-mail that attached a virus infected file ONCE.
>the antivirus software warned me about it. however, it really doesn't matter
>whether i received a warning or not, i never open any attchment in e-mails.
>
>so in the past year, the antiviurs software seems a bit useless and it took
>up the computer resource a bit.
>
>now i got a laptop, thinking of not installing any antivirus to keep it fast
>and less resource consumed.
>
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