how do you people get virus's?

[Locke]

Amazingly, I actually encountered a virus today, AVG blocked it before the site even loaded via SurfShield and popped up an alert. Was looking up lyrics for something.

[Jenne]

Surprised AVG catches anything.  I haven't had any issues since I started running NotScripts (chrome version of NoScript).  Avast catches one every once in a while. 

I've had bouts with other peoples computers who run bare bones IE. 

[Brian]

thats probably it tbh jenne. herp derp, i run XP SP1 becasue i hate updating, and i use IE 6 because who needs newer/better right guys?

[Kenneth Kenstar]

People fuck up their computers hardcore typically because they are running with as a user with Admin privileges.

Chrome is even designed to be installed without Admin privileges.

These steps make malicious software damage minimal.

When Mac (and anyone using Unix oxshit) users jump up and down about their security, this is really the only thing they are talking about.

Yeah, IE6 was bad and dumb. But, most of the people who were complaining, were running that piece of shit as an administrator.

Then went on to use Firefox as administrators.

Then complained about Windows Vista/7 UAC.

[Croix]

vista sucked.

[Buck Turgidson]

Question your sources and use a firewall to block key ports and you will be hard pressed to get a virus or a rootkit.  If all you do is surf for queer porn with your machine, then it is not like you are risking all of your data - your potential to lose is limited.  If you have all your shit on the same computer, and then go to Brian's favourite sites, you are playing russian roulette.

[Cashflow]

My experience with viruses I got badtrans.b virus back on windows 98 from auto download preview pane outlook express explioit, and then brother clicked on rogue internet security 2010 from yahoo infected javscript popup ads, also I think it took all my porn and picture files and morphed them together then posted them on the site I visited which was really weird anyone ever heard of a virus trojan morphing porn videos/pictures together ?

found this a few days ago good tool for idiots like myself TCPView http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437

[Brian]

open commnd prompt as administrator (cmd.exe also works in search bar cuz its the same exe file) and type "netstat -b -f"

should display something like this

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C:\Windows\system32>netstat -b -f

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1061         lappytop:1062          ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1062         lappytop:1061          ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    192.168.0.3:2454       65.125.72.153:http     CLOSE_WAIT
 [AAM Updates Notifier.exe]
  TCP    192.168.0.3:2879       frozen.coldfront.net:7778  ESTABLISHED
 [mirc.exe]

C:\Windows\system32>

[Alfred von Tirpitz]

Last virus attack that i faced was a nasty mother called Chernobyl, back in 1998. Or thereabouts. I also remember where i got it from. It was a game demo that i downloaded off of a reputable website.  What it did was basically screw up my computer BIOS and really trash my HDD.

Currently running MCAfee something.