JeffM wrote:
The anti-whatever guys are always playing catch-up with the black hats. Updating your band-aid apps *just before* doing something questionable is the "best" you can do.
Yes. Of course, it's better not to do questionable things.
If you run Windoze, and AV apps are your primary line of defense, you are going to get pwned. It's that simple. NB To those who say "Not me", I say "Not yet".
Possibly. I suppose if a determined hacker targeted me specifically, he could get in. But since I don't own a bank or anything, why bother?
I've been running Windows machines since v. 2 in the late 1980s and have never yet been infected. I don't mean no malware has ever entered any of my computers, but AFAIK none has ever been executed, because they were all either snagged and deleted/quarantined/sanitized/whatever by my AV programs or they arrived in emails that were diagnosed as spam/junk and went straight to trash.
Forever's a long time, but good software and good practices make a good combination. I figure if I can make it to 2055, when I'll be a hundred, that'll be close enough for rock 'n' roll.
P.S. For someone who's never been to Africa, I never cease to be amazed at how many people over there have left me money in their wills... ;-)
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