On Sep 29, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> On Sep 29, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>>> I leave JavaScript enabled and never notice any of that. I use web >>>> research extensively in my work and don't have time to F around. >>> >>> I let sites run JavaScript that they host. I don't have the time to >>> take risks. >> >> I guess I don't understand the risks. I probably visit 100 sites every day >> looking for the info I need. Never had a problem, except perhaps the >> occasional site that won't load. And that''s very infrequent. Never had a >> virus or anything like that. > > It's like a hard drive failure. Lots of people never have one. Until > they have one. > That''s a nice aphorism, but it doesn't tell me much. I don't worry too much about hard drive failures either, in that all my critical docs are backed up twice, and I e-mail my current working doc to myself every couple of hours. But I'm not sure how a website that doesn't load correctly or that doesn't work right can be like a hard drive failure. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm curious. What's the risk? I've never experienced any kind of virus in thirty years of working on computers, and I would guess about 20 years of using the web extensively. But I've always worked on Macs. Are viruses a constant threat to those working on PCs? > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
