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There was a really bad Dark Ages of remote exploits which peaked around the early Windows XP era. The OS itself and Internet Explorer were a horror show. Other
by TillE 4y ago
There was a really bad Dark Ages of remote exploits which peaked around the early Windows XP era. The OS itself and Internet Explorer were a horror show.
Other than that, yes, it's been fairly rare to have malware infections that don't start with tricking the user into executing a binary, though it certainly can happen.
- MBCook 4y agoIn 30+ years of having computers I’ve had issues twice. Once was on in the 3.11 days. Turned out the copy of KidPix we bought had a virus on the installation disks. The other was in the late 2000s at work on XP. I got got some piece of malware (showed ads IIRC) from a drive by using a Java exploit in an applet showed by an ad network. If you’re not doing high-risk stuff it’s not hard to avoid. But I’m glad MacOS has this built in just in case (like MSE on Windows).