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Old 10-06-2005   #17
Steeltwo
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Re: How do you protect your computer?

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Originally Posted by Tachyon

2. Viruses: don’t get me started… The fact that people still buy virus protection is beyond me. Nowadays, about the only serious virus threat comes in the form of holes in M$’s pretend Fisher Price OS (I.E. blaster) I have never run virus protection on my personal computers. I can count on two fingers the number of times I have gotten a virus (even back in the day when it was a valid threat). This includes much use of shady crack/serial websites AND hundreds of public LAN games with some real grade R assclowns. I my option Symantec uses so many resources that I consider it to be a virus.
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got blaster and sasser? Everyone that I knew that had XP got owned by blaster and half got hit by sasser.

how about netskya-z?
i can't count the number of pc's i've had to clean that off of.


as for running your computer wide open on the internet, go nuts
i'll give it three weeks before it is used as a funnel for some porn downloader.
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