took my fresh pc 5 mins to catch a virus/trojan
 

so today i had my occassional format day to get everything running smooth again... and after a whopping 5 minutes connected to the internet my firewall/virus scanner reports the first infection, fucking great!

Wonder if I'll see the day that M$ secures windows completely lol... thank God for Macs :thumbsup

SP2, unless you are gay and vouch for mac

You need to learn to use your firewall correctly.

When I installed XP for the first time a few months ago it didn't occur to me that the CD wouldn't be up to date... a few minutes after I plugged in the ethernet I saw the dreaded "your computer will reboot in 90 seconds" dialog.

I wiped the lot, put in a temporary restrictive firewall on my gateway (only outbound HTTP connections allowed), reinstalled and patched everything from windowsupdate.com

I don't know what people without firewalls are supposed to do. They can't easily download the patch if they're not net connected, but as soon as they connect they get infected!

Considering XP comes with a firewall built in this shouldnt be a problem

I do use it correctly, the virus/trojan was blocked but my program gives me an alert when something like that happens.

Macs Suck Ass..

SCO Unix all the way!

it's very seldom I get a virus or trojan.

have not gotten one with XP


router AND firewall, 2 virus programs

good thread since I jsut finished runing the anti-virus on my 2nd comp and find 14 virus on it from the emails lol.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

Get spyblaster and spyguard while youre at it... it's free.

That's what happens when you surf porn sites...




...you pervert






just kidding.........sorry

I think anyone in this biz should have a stand alone router, that acts as their firewall. Lock it up very tight.

Don'y worry, be safe!

:thumbsup

my firewall/AV keeps spyware and adware out too :thumbsup

From what I can work out the firewall is included in the original XP release, but it's not enabled by default until you install SP2.

Same chicken and egg problem.

ZoneAlarm :thumbsup

Hmm.. From every copy I have installed (at least 1500) Ive never seen it not avail.