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Originally Posted by Black Rose
No. You avoid viruses by not installing programs from untrusted sources. You don't get viruses automatically, they require human confirmation to get access.
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only dumbs accept everything thinking that's an update or a free software, sorry but this is not totally true.
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Originally Posted by Doc-Holiday
Not exactly true. There are many ways to do things with out the user knowing. Obv it doesn't just surf the Web looking for a random client to infect but you can get malware from simply viewing a Web page.
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exactly, I had some minor and one offensive one which infected my files by thousands, idk how.
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Originally Posted by Firippu
That's a pretty bold statement, you should provide proof when making such claims.
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you caught me using my own rules, mea culpa !
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Originally Posted by Black Rose
No. That is what people think because they have enabled some background function that automatically accepts request or they simply doesn't understand.
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as I said, I wanted to view a cat's picture and got a virus, can't remmeber which browser I was using (not IE6), but it may be its fault, and nothing that I accepted to be installed.
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Originally Posted by Doc-Holiday
They require human interaction however they don't know they are doing it.
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sometimes, if you just browse a random page and want to open a "non-executable" file, you may be infected. video, pictures can be infected as I already said.
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