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| Never - my fortress is inpenetrable |
  
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18 | 41.86% |
| 1 per month or less frequently |
  
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20 | 46.51% |
| 1 time per week |
  
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1 | 2.33% |
| 2 ~ 6 times per week |
  
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3 | 6.98% |
| 1 time per day |
  
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0 | 0% |
| > 1 time per day |
  
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1 | 2.33% |
| Voters: 43. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#26
September 16th, 2004, 08:15 PM
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Re: Infection Frequency
Hi all,
So may I draw the conclusion that we can stop from now on with the truckloads of questions, answers, discussions like: what is the best FW, what is the best AT, what is the best AV etc. etc.? Just by the 9 voters which have inpenetrable systems letting us know what apps, combinations and layers they use? Cheers, Gerard |
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#27
September 17th, 2004, 02:27 PM
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Well to be accurate, we have 9 voters who THINK that they have "inpentrable" systems when it is possible in fact that they are infected right now with some nasty backdoor program. Also, I don't think these 9 systems have much better systems currently compared to say yours or the average wilders members. Most people tend to be clean and quibble about whether adware or cookies= infected. Or some people may take false positives as being infected etc... Lastly never underestimate the difference knowledge and caution can add to your defences. You and I may be running the exact same layers of defence, but because I'm more knowledgable or careful, I might not get infected while you might. The funny thing about this poll already pointed out I think is that the less skilled you are in detecting malware, the more likely you think you are well protected  |
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September 17th, 2004, 08:10 PM
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luckily never so far-with viruses worms or trogans.I get alot of adware which adware se takes care of.I have learned invaluable info from this forum and answers to millions of questions.I read all of the posts even the very old ones and if i have a question i post and someone always answers.i really appreciate this forum and all the people here
Rita
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October 3rd, 2004, 10:08 AM
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All systems online are susceptible to attack...
ALL OF THEM... Spybot/Adaware/NAV/Kerio/BlackICE/Protowall/a2 Still I can detect a lotta crap out there... One way for an impenetrable fortress is to reduce functionality like removing ActiveX, Scripting, Java etc... Taking alotta ad-hoc measures like blocking JPEGs hen you heard of the exploit... but I don't do that... Us students need functionality That's why a relatively safe system is OK for me. Remember... No army wins ALL wars... No fortress is impregnable... No defence is unbreakable... That's my opinion... I believe it to be a fact... the rest is up t'yall. G'luck
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#31
October 3rd, 2004, 04:43 PM
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Only one time ever have I been "hacked" (Compaq Tech Supports words) before I killed it. I wanted to do some identification tests on it, but panicked when my keyboard stopped working.
 Tried to go back in time by using restore point that got the keyboard working again. I did not waste anytime, loaded up new AV software after the soon to expire one that came preloaded was destroyed by the germ. I uninstalled what was left of the OEM AV. It appeared to have "dumped" all of the virus defs. that were in the "library." Anyway all was well after that. One final note this was before I had Boclean and I did have Zone Alarm free which was not effected by the germ. I still wish I could have identified it before taking action.
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November 6th, 2004, 10:02 AM
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I once purposefully placed a virus on an old computer. I didnt run it, i just wanted to look at the code.
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#33
November 6th, 2004, 10:27 AM
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Then you weren't infected. |
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November 6th, 2004, 11:59 PM
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Yea. You were just a little "under the weather". Me infected twice in 3 years. Blaster variant on fresh install of Xp and similar worm on WinME previously. Live dangerously. Visit bad sites. Just use freeware/Opera+Firefox/twin firewall/twin AV/twin Antispyware/twin Antitrojan.... currently searching for antitrojan realtime scanners. Keep win-dos patched. Maintain a "clean" image of your windows installation on HDD to use in case of serious trouble. Kepp your data on a separate Physical drive (at least not on C and back it up often enough.I don't care how often or how quickly I get infected, its how quickly I beat the infection is that matters. Sooner or later virri/worms are gonna come. I just beat them down with a club.
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November 8th, 2004, 09:09 AM
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Get lots of Adware and occassionally Spyware. Viruses dont tend to get in.
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