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for your 3rd paragraph: I'm not sure I'm following you - are you saying that virtually every machine is infected? How come? btw I have been running without AVG
by stinos 13y ago
for your 3rd paragraph: I'm not sure I'm following you - are you saying that virtually every machine is infected? How come?
btw I have been running without AVG for ages on all kinds of systems. Once in a while I'm checking if my habits are still ok and run a bunch of standalone scans. They never find a single thing. Does that mean they all suck hard and that my machines are infected by newer and more invisble things than they can find? (note this is an honest question. I have no clue.)
- Piskvorrr 13y agoAs I understand this, virtually every machine gets exposed to the garden-variety malware; whether it's vulnerable to the given exploit is a different matter (look at the obsolete Java and Flash plugins eeeverywhere). Moreover, it is also important whether the exploit has an appropriate payload for the given system (I have yet to see e.g. a browser-vector transmitted payload which would run on Linux - which says something about its marketshare, not necessarily about its security). And of course "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," so either the scans suck hard, or you're clean; but barring a more specific (and probably not fully-automated) inspection, there's no way to tell.
- thirsteh 13y agoYou hit the nail on the head.