Hi Anthony, On 04/04/2005 04:44 PM +0200, you wrote:
It only gets dangerous when you stop thinking.
From reading your other messages it would seem that your use of yoursystem and why *you* require or need allows you the luxury of being able to simply avoid risky practices. More power to you that you're able to actually do this. Unfortunately, this isn't practical advice for many, if not most users. I know it's not practical for me. You don't need active X when browsing. Fine. Does this mean others do not?
I know I don't stop thinking and I always feel at risk, even though I try to limit my risk profile and do run programs to assist me. I've been hit by a virus *once* and that was in 1998. I was ignorant then and learnt a lesson. I haven't been hit since.
It does disturb me that on about 4 occasions I've been sitting in my office and the virus alert appeared. I was doing nothing really. A software firewall is now in place. No one can connect to my system over the network. They don't need to anyway.
Same problems happened with browsing. It's just not as simple as you put it anymore. At least not for many, if not most. As I said before, more power to you and your ability to simply avoid. That sort of approach is getting more and more difficult and I'm pretty confident that in the not so different future, you'll be changing your mind. These fellas are getting distressingly good at what they do.
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