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How are people even getting viruses? I've been using Windows to varying degrees since the 1980s, and I've never once in my life gotten a virus. I never used any
by caymanjim 5y ago
How are people even getting viruses? I've been using Windows to varying degrees since the 1980s, and I've never once in my life gotten a virus. I never used any antivirus software. I let Windows do whatever it does by default, but it never flags anything. Are people picking up viruses from pirated games or something?
- elorant 5y agoYou, and me, and everyone else in here are not the average user. The average user clicks and opens files all the time.
- UberFly 5y ago"I've never once in my life gotten a virus. I never used any antivirus software." This is like saying your blood pressure is fine, but you've never had it measured. :) Email and internet are still places of entry to machines. Plenty of 0-Day stuff out there your average person can stumble into.
- zamalek 5y ago> average person Even the most paranoid and careful person could be pwnd by a vulnerability in their browser, network stack, GPU driver, or whatever. If you at any point open a network-connected application on a popular OS then you are at risk. It doesn't matter if you "don't click links," or "be careful what you download."
- UberFly 5y agoAmen to that. Plus I erred in saying 0-day. Actually, if not using any kind of AV, you're vulnerable to everything ever made if you're trusting your "intuition" alone.
- icare_1er 5y agoMost people whose computer has become part of a botnet don't know it.