> I think your likelyhood of getting your PC messed up is pretty dependant on habits too. Indeed... > You're much more likely to get hit by drive-by adware if

> I think your likelyhood of getting your PC messed up is pretty dependant on habits too. Indeed... > You're much more likely to get hit by drive-by adware if you're (on Windows Indeed I am on Windows... without security software, etc. > and) going to those random illegal streaming sites to watch some show Indeed I am not... > than if you're reading HN Indeed I am... > An example: I was on a less than stellar video hosting site, and a bunch of pop-ups got me to accidentally download "FlashPlayer.dmg" I'm pretty well versed in this stuff! And they got me to download this right as I was going to watch this video. Even if you downloaded that, you have to do some extra clicks to make it run. It's not something that I can see happening by accident to the average HN reader. > If I didn't know better, it would have been like all those other plugin updaters (of course you need root to install flash right?) But you did know better. > Of course, updated Chrome didn't prevent this case for me... Well there you go, I'm out of arguments. I think you quite beautifully narrowed down where the real problems lie and proved my point, so I'm just going to leave it at that. ;)