Norton - I didn't believe it

superscaper

mascherano wrote: »

yes, you made it all up. it doesnt even sound half true. Just kidding. I know viruses are 'out there' but admit it, you have to be INCREDIBLY stupid or naiive to get one. I use limewire and torrents daily, have done for years- and no infections yet. I can spot a fake file a mile off

Great, now I'm either naiive or stupid. I've never opened an exe or any other file that I wasn't sure was ok. Didn't stop me getting infected though. I don't even use p2p etc.

mascherano

I see you've changed your sig, didnt know there were alternatives to OSX (not that I own a mac)

superscaper

mascherano wrote: »

I see you've changed your sig, didnt know there were alternatives to OSX (not that I own a mac)

I was only teasing about the calling stupid comment. But yes it was from another thread that turned into a mac fanboy thing about OSX being the most secure OS in the world so I decided to argue that RISC OS was far more secure than OSX and he'd completely ignored Linux's existence as well in all the arguments about "no mac viruses". Decided "two can play at that game" and let loose my Acorn fanboy side.

cajef

mascherano wrote: »

compare that with me.

No thank you, if you want to risk running with no AV software thats up to you.

When people pay a considerable sum for computers and equipment and then leave themselves open to getting virus infections when there are plenty of free AV programmes or for the sake of a few quid a year would rather put themselves at risk then that is their problem, but the viruses and other nasties out there are not something the average non techy computer user wants or needs to be infected with.

mascherano

cajef wrote: »

No thank you, if you want to risk running with no AV software thats up to you.

When people pay a considerable sum for computers and equipment and then leave themselves open to getting virus infections when there are plenty of free AV programmes or for the sake of a few quid a year would rather put themselves at risk then that is their problem, but the viruses and other nasties out there are not something the average non techy computer user wants or needs to be infected with.

ok so you have swallowed the virus myth completely havent you? The cost of anti-virus is nothing to do with it, its the fact that they cripple your computer. So you can enjoy your PC running at best 80%, but me I enjoy 100% speed because I have dispensed with anti-virus software. How people actually get infected is beyond me.

cajef

mascherano wrote: »

How people actually get infected is beyond me.

Says it all really.:rolleyes:

mascherano

Seriously will someone explain to me how a non-idiot can get a virus on your system?

albertross_2

Have you heard on lovebug, codered, sasser, the list is endless, and you often don't have to do anything, they come to you.

As I have mentioned before, I have twice clicked on links on this forum, and twice my AV kicked off. One of those links was an idiot posting it on purpose, one was someone who didn't know his own (perfectly respectable site ) was infected.

superscaper

albertross wrote: »

Have you heard on lovebug, codered, sasser, the list is endless, and you often don't have to do anything, they come to you.

Exactly, every infection I've had personally has been passive with no active installation by me. And I hope I'm not being too arrogant in saying that I wouldn't describe myself as an idiot and certainly not computer illiterate. And so far mascherano hasn't addressed my first person POV examples of virus infection.

superscaper

albertross wrote: »

As I have mentioned before, I have twice clicked on links on this forum, and twice my AV kicked off. One of those links was an idiot posting it on purpose, one was someone who didn't know his own (perfectly respectable site ) was infected.

Has also happened to me, AV prevented a trojan being downloaded to pc through a perfectly innocent personal site and the site owner had no idea the trojan was there. The ISP shut down the site when they confirmed it after I reported it. I'm sure I imagined all of that as well.