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Note to self: never download without a firewall
All of us:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on June 06, 2009, 05:15:16 PM ---They can get through firewall if they really wanted to. I don't try to use it as it's pointless in that it hinders a lot of online playability. If someone wants my vacation photos that much, they can have them. I never keep anything important on my pc for too long. I back things up every month or two and archive it on DVDR. Saves me a lot of time should I ever need to reformat.
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there's this new thing called the external hard drive, you should look into it.
TapeDeck:
--- Quote from: All of us on June 06, 2009, 05:24:17 PM ---there's this new thing called the external hard drive, you should look into it.
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He's saying he backs up every month or two (never said onto what media) AND archives it onto DVD-Rs in case his backup media becomes unusable.
Muffinmix:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on June 06, 2009, 05:15:16 PM ---They can get through firewall if they really wanted to.
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They can do what's called a buffer overflow attack, but you'll likely notice if this ever happens. It's not exactly the sneakiest way to get into a system.
--- Quote from: Rughugger on June 06, 2009, 05:15:16 PM ---They can get through firewall if they really wanted to. I don't try to use it as it's pointless in that it hinders a lot of online playability. If someone wants my vacation photos that much, they can have them. I never keep anything important on my pc for too long. I back things up every month or two and archive it on DVDR. Saves me a lot of time should I ever need to reformat.
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The only places I've been frequenting on this laptop is this site, somethingawful, photobucket, and youtube. That's it. I never use this to visit any research sites and I don't download warez, so you tell me. Unlike you underage kiddies I don't go online if I ever want to look at research.
I was downloading fallout 3, a 12 hour process given I'm using the slowest high speed internet service available to me, I was doing it via steam after I bought it off steam. Midway through the process programs started closing and processes like explorer.exe were bugging out and closing. I rebooted and pretty much lost all internet capabilities, and a bunch of apps were still closing randomly. I tried to fix it in safe mode but symantec couldn't find what was going on. Whatever it was had also deleted all my system restore states as usual. So I gave up until I got a hold of my bro's laptop to fix things.
But who am I kidding trying to convince you of all people. I could get you a screencap of my steam games list, maybe my CD key too why not, but you'd call it a photoshop or some gay stuff so forget it.
zz_tophat:
--- Quote from: Jsk2003 on June 06, 2009, 01:38:18 PM ---If you're getting stuff, then you most likely are doing something stupid.
The best policy to avoid things is to use common sense. Next time you get something, figure out the source and avoid it.
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I can go a week without going anywhere but these forums, yahoo mail & Wikipedia (and I have) and I am still finding tracking cookies. I'm not saying I get viruses, I don't (and you have to let the vast majority of them in by downloading something) but adware, spyware tracking cookies, ect can be gotten from even trusted sources. If you have an access to the internet you will get stuff you don't want.
Common sense has nothing to do with the long legal agreements to things like gmail (or pretty much any free mail) that say in very small print that you may get some spyware by clicking "I agree".
All of us:
really? I leave this computer on 24/7, go to new sites everyday, download all sorts of stuff, and never have a problem. the last time i had a virus was a year ago and i knew exactly what i was doing and what caused it