Most users unaware of PC infections

[ronjor]

ZDNet (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5423306.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed)


-{ Quote: ""No consumer would walk down the street waving a stack of cash or leave their wallet sitting in a public place, but far too many are doing the exact same thing online," Tatiana Gau, AOL's chief trust officer, said in a statement. "Without basic protections like antivirus, spyware and firewall software, consumers are leaving their personal and financial information at risk."" }-

[nadirah]

Yes, i'm sure many people would never even bother to check their computers, much less clean the computers of all the junk. It would be those people who know nothing about computer security at all who would mainly do this.

[Notok]

If people could keep their computer in perspective with the rest of their life, the internet would be a much better place.

[Mr.Blaze]

i notice and im sorry if its not politicaly correct but most of them are woman

its strange but true if only more were like are jooskey and the other few ladys that do come here

[snapdragin]

-{ Quote: "i notice and im sorry if its not politicaly correct but most of them are woman" }-Oh I dunno, Blaze. Most friends I've helped with their computers were men. :-X

;D

[billr2]

-{ Quote: "Oh I dunno, Blaze. Most friends I've helped with their computers were men. :-X

;D" }-

No doubt because it is always the man's job to try to fix a broken computer. But behind all the troubles is always a women.

[Billr2]

-{ Quote: "Yes, i'm sure many people would never even bother to check their computers, much less clean the computers of all the junk. It would be those people who know nothing about computer security at all who would mainly do this." }-

Yes, I wonder how many people are walking around here thinking that because they run outpost, KAV,NOD, TDS-3, Spybot,adaware, Spysweeper, etc, they don't have spyware running on their computer lol...

[chew]

I've helped few people clearing up the nasties from their systems after they told me they experienced something weird.

So far my highest record (theirs really) was to clean up 459 Critical Items from one guy using Ad-aware SE. The funny bit was he told me he had the latest AV (not exactly) ...

On average I get about 10 - 20 malwares when I asked them to scan using Ad-aware SE and those are the Standard ones such as Alexa data miner.
Others nastier ones are LOP, CWS, Browser Hijack, Worm.

So I am not surprised if people are unaware of PC infections.

;D

P/s: Yes, I agree even with all those defensive softwares we are not immune to attack ...