On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Oh yes, they certainly are. And thank goodness too: developing security software and support systems to keep PC users safe has paid my bills for the past 18 years. Personally though I use Macs even though they do almost nothing to support security people. ;-) -- -bmw -- 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.
