I try not to post about off-topic items, but I can't resist.
There's probably nothing you can do to absolutely protect any computer that is connected to the Internet. Someday you *WILL* click on some attachment or there will be an operating system bug that doesn't get caught and corrected in time to save you.
So what I do is have two computers. The Windows 7 machine with all my important stuff has no connection to the Internet or to any other computer or device that is connected to the Internet. Sitting next to it is a Linux computer connected to the Internet. If the Win7 computer needs to download some file from a web site it is transferred with a thumb drive from the Linux machine.
Of course, even that is not 100.0% foolproof because there could be a virus in a file on the thumb drive, but it is way, way safer.
Alan N1AL On 03/07/2017 01:31 PM, Matt Zilmer wrote: > Sometimes, being paranoid (or OCD) isn't enough. After a friend's > system was ransomed, I chose the most paranoid path I could afford: > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
