Has anyone noticed a increase on the amount of virus's being cuaght by your Anti-Virus? In the past 6 months I have delt with 5 annoying ones, and before that it was more like 1 every 6 months... Just wondering if its just me.
Virus's Getting worse?
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Religious sites?[footnote]http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/05/malware_and_computer_viruses_they_ve_left_porn_sites_for_religious_sites_.html[/footnote]Marter said:
Have you started frequently visiting a new blog or personal website recently?
I haven't had a virus in over a year now. One or two bits of spyware, but I know what I'm doing online, so I don't get viruses. I don't even have an Anti-virus permanently installed. Every now and then I'll install it, do a full sweep, find out I'm clean, then uninstall before it tries to clog up my HDD usage.
So... no, compared to the number of Virus's I've had in the past, presently is amazingly low.
So... no, compared to the number of Virus's I've had in the past, presently is amazingly low.
The link is surprising factual about it.Dags90 said:
Various churches/religious groups are starting to branch out onto the internet and due to their inexperience are are being targeted.
Seriously the top sites are chalk full of viruses, stop going to them. I am on the internet 24/7 and I get a virus once every 6 months.craftomega said:
Nope.
I will be frank, I stopped getting Viruses when I stopped downloading, watching, viewing or otherwise consuming porn (I dunno how you would otherwise consume porn? I guess you could read it or listen to it). And that happened when I suddenly realised that porn is rather dull and habit forming.
All my games are legitimate buys from steam, the only sites I use these days are internal sites run by my Uni, the Escapist, the two webcomics I read, the BBC, Gmail, Facebook, various newspapers... Oh and Reddit, sometimes.
In short if you stick to Legit sites, do not download illegal shite, and... Nope, that is about it, you should remain virus free.
Man, I don't actually know how many computers I fried or how many hundreds of pounds was spent on repairs/high end virus guards.
I will be frank, I stopped getting Viruses when I stopped downloading, watching, viewing or otherwise consuming porn (I dunno how you would otherwise consume porn? I guess you could read it or listen to it). And that happened when I suddenly realised that porn is rather dull and habit forming.
All my games are legitimate buys from steam, the only sites I use these days are internal sites run by my Uni, the Escapist, the two webcomics I read, the BBC, Gmail, Facebook, various newspapers... Oh and Reddit, sometimes.
In short if you stick to Legit sites, do not download illegal shite, and... Nope, that is about it, you should remain virus free.
If only there was someone like you had existed to bitchslap the computer-retarded 15 year old me that first discovered porn.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
Man, I don't actually know how many computers I fried or how many hundreds of pounds was spent on repairs/high end virus guards.
Same, just subsitute few months for a few years. Now Norton is just sitting on my PC being the virus. I wonder if Microsoft Security Essentials will get rid of it...Marter said:
Well, duh - the network does attack you with thousands and thousands of bytes per second. It's called a Denial of Service attack - when you get on the Net, the rush of incoming information suddenly makes you less capable of doing stuff other than processing it. It makes you waste your time, instead of being productive. Notron is just protecting you.gigastar said:
OT: No, not really. But I did get two "Infected URL" warnings from my AV over the last month, so I guess you can call that an increase. That's two more than roughly the past 6-8 moths or so (I recall I had another warning from the AV around January-ish).
Well, if you count firewalls, then there actually has been a decrease in "suspicious behaviour". Then again, my firewall seems to count games as "suspicious" because I want to play them over a network, and I haven't done this as much lately.
DoS attack would mean he wouldn't be able to get any pages at all, or cause his computer to lockup, connecting to the local network only will you with DHCP (to get an IP address, then all the services on his computer that require info from the web and connect automatically will send requests, Hardly DoSing.DoPo said:
Viruses I couldn't really comment on, worms, malware and the other assorted nasties out there yup they're getting cleverer but so are the people who program your AV hence why several AVs come with basic anti-root kit counter measures.
TBH alot of the basic things are:
-If given an option to use HTTPS use that over HTTP (only really nescerry when logging into sites and logged in
-Use noScript extensions on sites you're not sure about
-Update your machine and the programs when they ask to (unless you've heard that they've been hacked and they don't know what the attackers did in which case put it of a bit until you know)
And the usual dont go on dodgy/porn/religious or dodgy religious porn websites blah blah blah
I haven't had any viruses in ages, but there was this one time when Avast! (the anti-virus program I'm using) thought that an update for Steam was filled with malware.
Of course that wasn't really the case, so I was told to make Steam an exeption on things that the program wouldn't scan.
Of course that wasn't really the case, so I was told to make Steam an exeption on things that the program wouldn't scan.
I had one of those some months back. Told me my PC was locked for child pornography and terrorism related activities. Now, living in Finland, child porn is a bad, bad word...but terrorism? That's what you're trying to scare me with? It would've been funny if it hadn't been so inconvenient.Legion said:
I can't help but wonder who would actually cave in and pay the fine. Someone who's guilty? The police doesn't operate like that for fuck's sake! Child porn and terrorism allegations don't go away by paying a small fee. If you're computer illiterate and haven't done anything wrong, why not just call them and ask?
I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I roundhouse kicked the snot out of that horse. Other than that I haven't had anything for years. Really, porn is pretty safe nowadays. That said, back when I was 8 and on dial-up, I managed to get my mother a ~100$ bill for surfing porn. She wasn't terribly happy about it.
