killerbobjr
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2005
- Messages
- 282
I see many people here adamantly state that you absolutely have to have an antivirus scanner installed, otherwise your computer will be infected in very short order. Now I assume that most people here are computer literate, that you know not to open unsolicited attachments, download files from shady sites, or install questionable browser plugins. Yet many here seem to fear doing anything without an AV installed, even if it causes performance problems. I've only once ever had an infection, and this was a Windows 98 virus that tried to infect my then new Windows XP computer years ago (I lost a CD of an old app I needed for a project and downloaded a "backup" version that I foolishly didn't check before running -- it didn't do anything except repeatedly try to run a .vxd it installed, which didn't execute under XP).
So my question is: How many of you have actually encountered a virus/trojan/whatever that either actually infected your computer or caused your AV to set off its alarm?
So my question is: How many of you have actually encountered a virus/trojan/whatever that either actually infected your computer or caused your AV to set off its alarm?