Viruses, worms, whatever

[Mossyhorn]

Get an iMac.* Problem solved. (Ouch! Ouch! Stop kicking me.) Seriously, I have had my iMac since 2010 and can count the malware infections on the fingers of one hand.
I used to have nothing but problems when I ran PCs. There is always some malware that can get around your software. I have had computers disabled that were running
Avast, Norton, etc. IMHO, Malwarebytes is probably one of the best and least intrusive. Some of the others are so intrusive that they make the computer unusable.

Don't view free porn? Yeah, right.








*I run an anti-malware program, but it rarely finds anything. Go to the dark side. We have cookies.

UffDa is dead on about the iMac. I not only had security problems with Microsoft, I think Microsoft software is very intrusive. Hell, even updates were unstoppable no matter what the setting were on my pc.
The updates could lock your computer up for hours and when they were finished, all of my recent software purchases were wiped out. Get a MAC and quit worrying about it.
Next time you get a notice that your computer is being attacked, do not click on anything and shut your pc down. It's nothing but a lure trying to get you to click on it. Then you will have problems.

 

[gadgetgeek]

In the last Pwn2Own Safari got pretty smashed. Nothing is fully secure, you can still get picked with other vulnerabilities, and in general, viruses are annoying, but a determined attacker can really do some damage.