Infection Frequency

So board members here in general have a strong layered approach for securing their systems and a good working knowledge of security risks - does it work?

Question: How often is your machine compromised / infected by viruses, trojans, hijackers, keyloggers, worms, malware, adware, etc.?

Edit: SP

 

Actually my answer (less than once a month) is based on all the other categories except adware -- I'm not sure why you lumped that in with the others. It's irritating, but (with rare exceptions) not a hazard, and it's cleaned out easily enough.

 

Good point - just trying to keep it simple - not sure I know how to describe where adware ends and the others begin. Open to suggestions.

 

Had my IE home page altered in 2001 by a porn site cause I was curious about the DARK SIDE. So I got serious and installed ZA, tweaked IE, and added a free AV program. Not a single bug since that time.

Currently running ZA Pro 4.5.594, Firefox 0.9.x, and Avast Home (e-mail scanner only without full-time auto protection).

 

The only infection I have ever had was the blaster worm And it was my own fault not my security apps. This is in the last ten years. I thought I was last week but it was a false positive in spybot s/d

 

Although I posted "never", there wasn't any other option, and this is for today, tomorrow may be a different story Saying a system is "Never - my fortress is inpenetrable" is really not plausable, given this ever changing world we live in

Cheers

 

inpenetrable is my middle name.

 

If you hang around this forum for any length of time, it's hard not to learn enough to make your PC into a veritable fortress.

 

ROFLMAO

 

See? We always thought so.....


But....it is supossed to be impenetrable.

 

LMAO, well done Q

Cheers

 

Hey. I didn't create this poll.

 

OK, OK.

 

I voted 2-6 times per week, but that's only the cookies I usually find when I run Adaware or Spybot. My husband and I browse for genealogical info a lot.

 

Since when were cookies (even "tracking cookies" lol ) considered malware?

 

Doesn't the answer depend on the definition of "infection"? Truly infected doesn't necessarily mean you're even aware of the infection.

I "run across" malware less than once per month, but NOD32, Outpost and BoClean haven't let anything take root in "I can't remember when". Many months, really. Still, I never say never.

I might start a poll to ask, "How long does it typically take to become aware of a malware infection?"

 

I knew tracking cookies aren't malware, but the question was:

How often is your machine compromised / infected by viruses, trojans, hijackers, keyloggers, worms, malware, adware, etc.?


And I put cookies in the etc. category. Can I change my vote to never?

 

Never - my fortress is inpenetrable!

 

Never say Never.

 

once every 4/6 months or so, thanks to wilders ,and because im fairly reckless i always think im missing something, so i spend most of my time trying to track down a rootkit which i probably dont have

 

Oh yeah? My computer has never been infected a single bit for many months already. I protect my computer very strictly. It ain't gonna be easy for hackers to hit my comp.

Hackers, think twice before you even dare to attack.

 

I've Never been infected intentionally BUT....I can't vote because I'll never say my fortress is inpenetrable