barnes
May 26 2006, 11:27 PM
So, my computers about 4 years old. I never really felt the need to install firewalls, virus scans, any of that none snese. In that 4 years, I have used Limewire, Bitcomet, Azuers, Bearshare, and all those other P2P's know for spyware, but I havn't gotten any. I don't have a firewall, I don't really have much protecting me. I belive IE is the bridge that lets spyware installed with Bearshare, to activate. For some reason all my friends download Limewire, and then say they're computer went to hell. This dosn't make sense because I have installed it multiple times when I restored, and never once did that happen. I'm reaching my 6 month mark since my last reformat and I am getting a bit cramped. Its not viruses, its not spyware, just a larege handful of junk I installed but can't find any more. I attribute my good security (or luck.) to these programs. Firefox is just brillant and a virtual shield agisnt spyware. WinRAR is the same, just for downloads. I've gotten a pop up from WinRAR saying "Warning, malicious file." and won't let me open it. Does anyone have my luck as well?
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dazappa
May 27 2006, 01:00 AM
Well I would say the same with firefox. I have winrar, but I only use it to open rars. As far as I'm concerned that's all it should do. Firefox is great with stuff like that, and blocks up popups automatically. I would say you are probably just really lucky or have an antivirus program running in the background you didn't know about or you forgot about. I had my computer on the internet a month and I had about 20 viruses and a lot of spyware etc. Or maybe you have a router that has a firewall installed, but I don't think routers have antivirus things.
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Saint_Michael
May 27 2006, 01:10 AM
I would hae to say luck, but i bet if you install a anti virus program now your computer is loaded, you may not see cause its behind the scense kind of stuff. So I would check it to make sure.
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rejected
May 27 2006, 01:32 AM
I do the same exact thing. I have no AV installed (which isn't advised), but I still manage to get no viruses. I use firefox, which prevents a lot of malware, but I'm also careful of what programs I open.
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gameratheart
May 27 2006, 01:35 AM
QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ May 27 2006, 02:10 AM) 
I would hae to say luck, but i bet if you install a anti virus program now your computer is loaded, you may not see cause its behind the scense kind of stuff. So I would check it to make sure.
Saint is right. I once had no idea how a person could get Adware, Spyware and Malware so easily by browsing the web, that I was convinced I didn't have any. Even more so because I never saw anthing strange happening. But then I downloaded Ad-Aware and found out I had a whole 250 different instances of them. After that, I downloaded a virus checker too. I've been lucky enough not to have a virus yet, but I know when to be suspicious. Always make sure you know what is going on behind the scenes - it's not always as obvious as you think! P.S. Don't be glad that you haven't been infected yet. Just be careful. Otherwise, it's your computer's funeral. _____________________ If something makes you suspicious, you should be.
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grnjd
May 27 2006, 02:21 AM
I used internet explorer and I sometimes still do, however firefox does not stop all the popups and spyware/adware. I mean viruses are rare, I never got one until like 6 years ago. But once the virus invades your computer, its really hard to take it out. It can wipe out all your data and even damage your hardware. Thats why its better to be cautious then sorry
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Hamtaro
May 27 2006, 02:50 AM
I went for a while without any type of spyware/adware/virus scanner on my system, and once I finally installed a spyware and adware scanner, it found a TON. I didn't even realize they were on there. They didn't cause any sort of performance loss, so I couldn't tell they were on there. It found over 100. I haven't gotten any viruses yet, thankfully (however, I am now no longer using Windows). I would probably bet that it's just luck. However, that's only IF you don't have any. I would actually get something for it, you never really know what will happen to it in the future.
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brandice
May 27 2006, 03:12 PM
It's a good idea to run a scan, or to look around and see what you actually have on your computer. It's possible to have viruses and stuff and not even know about them though. Things were going super slow on my computer a while back and I ran a scan. Somehow, we got this thing on our computer that was just constantly downloading files from Kazaa. The "My Downloads" folder had almost 7gb of stuff in it that nobody would have ever downloaded. I didn't know we had kazaa... one of the downsides of sharing a computer.
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Magic1492
May 30 2006, 10:01 PM
I use Firefox and Opera. I'm pretty sure Opera was tested to be the most secure, but not compatible with all websites, so I stick with Firefox mostly. I also use WinRAR, so I can't get viruses from archives (Well, not that easily  ), the only other main virus vulnurability is P2P software, which I don't use. And yet I still get viruses. 
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Paul
May 31 2006, 12:05 AM
There are TWo possible answers: 1) You just never realized it (viruses dont want to be known!) 2) You're just smart enough to not visit 'bad' sites and to be very careful about the files you download! And, WinRAR is not a very good protection again Malware/Spyware and software of that sort, same with FF. Everything has its vulnerabilities!
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kawasu
Jul 9 2006, 09:08 AM
this also happened to me. at one stage i hadnt turned off my pc for months and during that time i didnt receive a sigle virus. i surfed, dled and used IM applications. i think i was just lucky, the next time aroun i received about 15 viruses in just a week. now i use firewalls, firefox, anti-virus and anti-spyware software. i dont have any problems, my pc loads up at the same speed everytime. hasnt crashed or frozen in a long time, doesnt lag either. i'm pt happy with the state of my computer atm. ;]
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brandice
Jul 8 2006, 08:01 PM
I was just having some problems with a certain type of pop-up over the past couple of weeks. I'd been doing regular scans with ad-aware and spybot search and destroy, so I thought that was all that was wrong with my computer. I sent in my log to one of those helper forums and, boy, was I ever wrong! I had all kinds of viruses and spyware on my computer that weren't actively doing anything that I was noticing. It took three days of instructions to clear everything of my machine! And now everything works much better. I had just gotten so used to the way things were running.
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Sprnknwn
Jun 17 2006, 11:23 AM
Probably you have a lot of them but you don´t notice (which is good luck, anyway). The other way it would be too much luck... like if you had been touched by God or something.
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Lyon2
Jun 16 2006, 04:40 PM
Sorry to say so, but that is almost impossible, well, yes, almost, so it could be possible, but to tell you the trueth, i have difficulties beleaving that you never catch a virus. At least you catched a couple of worms, that is impossible to escape, unless you are not connected to the 'net. And if you think that firefox is 100% secure, think again, crackers started to work for firefox, for a few years now, and it is a matter of time untill it becomes what internet explorer came to be (100% insecure)!
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Wilson Cook
Jun 16 2006, 02:52 AM
Most viruses do use Internet explorer these days to launch themsleves of embed themselves into startup. But the odds that you havent had a single virus is slimmer than the odds that u havent caught a single virus, especially given the fact that u dont have any antivirus tools on your computer.
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