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How does one get a virus?

Started by えっちーせんぱい, November 21, 2007, 03:28:50 PM

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sleepin_dude_99

Quote from: Silverhawk79 on November 21, 2007, 03:57:15 PM
By either having crappy anti-virus (AVG lol) or crappy anti-spyware (Windows Defender rofl).
Or just being a dumbass on the Internet.
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extraz

by not maintaining a PC...no firewall, no anti spyware and no anti virus, means infected. Since PC's don't come with those things (besides for a poopty Windows firewall) inexperienced users are exposed to all sorts of crap.

Genius

As long as you have a brain, it's downright hard to get viruses.

I have virus protection (AVG lol go die silverhawk :|), but it does me no real good.  Never catches anything anyway.  If you're using Firefox, you're fairly safe from any kind of malware you could get from visiting a webpage. 

Beyond that, all you need to worry about is when you download a file yourself.  You can still run an infected file you may download for some reason or another, but as long as you're smart about where you download from, that's hardly an issue.  If not, that's where anti-virus protection comes in.

I haven't had a virus in years.  Not since I stared using Firefox.  It's when computer idiots get around these things that you get viruses.

(hypersonic)

by clicking the

"hit the blue flying robot duck for a virus!" button

Genius

Quote from: (hypersonic) on November 21, 2007, 04:07:39 PM
by clicking the

"hit the blue flying robot duck for a virus!" button

Actually, it's usually more from the "Would you like to install and run some piece of crapware that will screw up your computer for eternity?'

I know all this from experience. My dad is an absolute moron when it comes to computers.  He had a computer some years ago.  I promise you, I don't think I've ever seen something loaded with so much crap before.  He must be the only person to choose yes every single time he gets a popup about downloading, installing, or running anything at all. 

And the hilarious part, he blamed it on me.  Even though he got unbelievable amounts of crap from that, various porn sites, and even Bonzi Buddy, it was somehow not his fault.  He had to take it in to have the hard drive wiped three times in the period of about 6 months.  To make it worse, he actually believes that anyone has to do that.

It's a sad, sad thing.

Silverhawk79

Quote from: Genius on November 21, 2007, 04:06:20 PM
As long as you have a brain, it's downright hard to get viruses.

I have virus protection (AVG lol go die silverhawk :|), but it does me no real good.  Never catches anything anyway.  If you're using Firefox, you're fairly safe from any kind of malware you could get from visiting a webpage. 

Beyond that, all you need to worry about is when you download a file yourself.  You can still run an infected file you may download for some reason or another, but as long as you're smart about where you download from, that's hardly an issue.  If not, that's where anti-virus protection comes in.

I haven't had a virus in years.  Not since I stared using Firefox.  It's when computer idiots get around these things that you get viruses.
I used AVG for years, and then switched to another AV program, and it picked up a bunch of viruses and crap.

えっちーせんぱい

Quote from: Silverhawk79 on November 21, 2007, 03:57:15 PM
By either having crappy anti-virus (AVG lol) or crappy anti-spyware (Windows Defender rofl).
Or just being a dumbass on the Internet.
I use Opera, and I don't just download anything, so I don't care what I use really, it's just there.

L10

Quote from: Phaze on November 21, 2007, 03:53:52 PM
Ask my pervy brother about that. I just did a computer scan today and we had some virus! I got rid of it and checked to see where it came from and it came from- nvm, you don't want to know...
Well sounds like you should lock him out of the computer
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