am i the only one who gets scared by the littlest things on computers

[KillerCop311]

dude you cannot get a virus without downloading an executable or running a java applet. Just close the popup next time.

uh false
very false
drive bys exist
you can go to a webpage and the virus can be transferred to your PC without even knowing it

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[Ipquarx]

dude you cannot get a virus without downloading an executable or running a java applet. Just close the popup next time.

This is false. If you open up a maliciously crafted webpage it's theoretically possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your machine. A french secuity firm demonstrated this this year by exposing a total of 11 different 0days in fully updated Internet Explorer 11, Adobe Reader XI, Google Chrome, Adobe Flash, and Mozilla Firefox. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own#Contest_2014

[SeventhSandwich]

This is false. If you open up a maliciously crafted webpage it's theoretically possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your machine. A french secuity firm demonstrated this this year by exposing a total of 11 different 0days in fully updated Internet Explorer 11, Adobe Reader XI, Google Chrome, Adobe Flash, and Mozilla Firefox. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own#Contest_2014

Not with my NoScript they can't.

[Ipquarx]

Not with my NoScript they can't.

We don't even know for sure if it used javascript... for all we know it could get you even with noscript activated. It's happened before to Tor, of all things. I really wouldn't be that surprised.

[Niff]

show me one, because I don't really believe you. that would defeat the purpose of a laptop

well I can't exactly show you considering I have no idea the type or model of laptop but the laptops at school don't have an internal battery

[Swat 3]

Not with my NoScript they can't.

Technically, they can.

The way these things work is that they directly use exploits. Even images can be used to forget up your day.

[Foxscotch]

well I can't exactly show you considering I have no idea the type or model of laptop but the laptops at school don't have an internal battery

more than likely your school took the batteries out

[WaffleCake]

a few years ago i was using a computer with a VERY bad graphics card
it was so bad that my browser even forgeted up graphically once
i would flip my stuff when i'm playing a game and all of a sudden there's colors and polygons everywhere

[carolcat]

We don't even know for sure if it used javascript... for all we know it could get you even with noscript activated. It's happened before to Tor, of all things. I really wouldn't be that surprised.

off topic but why do you use that font in all of your posts

[Foxscotch]

off topic but why do you use that font in all of your posts

so that people will ask this question

[Kishgal]

whenever things get totally quiet and stationary i get unreasonably uneasy

off topic but why do you use that font in all of your posts

attention

[Boink!]

this isn't really a "little thing" but I was playing The Walking Dead (which my laptop was having issues at the time) and everything randomly got forgeted up. I quit, then it looked like someone shot a BB at my computer monitor. I restarted and it was fine, though.

Luckily, I updated my drivers and games run good again lol

[Blockaium]

ahahaa
its some refurbished laptop from ebay that has been through many repairs and one time it had to get a whole new hard drive

anyway the battery was taken out before we bought it

[SlayerZ99]

off topic but why do you use that font in all of your posts

I think it started wtih the "Use a different font for a week" then he just kept doing it