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Exactly. It's amazing how many people don't realize that this is all you need to do. Antivirus is only for people who don't follow those two rules. Well JS is
by Asbostos 11y ago
Exactly. It's amazing how many people don't realize that this is all you need to do. Antivirus is only for people who don't follow those two rules.
Well JS is fine as long as the browser is up to date. Normal people aren't going to be hit by zero-days.
- mtgx 11y ago> Normal people aren't going to be hit by zero-days. Normal people still use IE. There are definitely plenty of IE zero-days out there that have hit normal people. Mozilla also announced a month ago that an exploit using a FF zero-day was running in the wild.
- Kenji 11y agoWell, a couple of years ago I was hit by a drive-by virus. Just opening a website in (up to date) Firefox literally opened .exe files on my PC and infected the entire OS. I burnt my hands once - not again. This might be an anecdote to you but boy that scarred me - the idea that clicking a link could compromise my entire system like that. Even then - an antivirus program is unlikely to stop such an intrusion. It's just utterly ineffective, and I got viruses before despite having an anti-virus. Also, my anti-virus always deleted my hacktools and own programs which was a nuisance. Hence I don't use it anymore.