Viruses and a clicking epidemic
Thought the above comic was just too funny. Especially since I just spent a great deal of time cleaning off my parents computer. I think they had 40-50 different viruses and spyware on their computer.
I know that my parents computer is the “family” computer and consequently it gets used by my little brothers and sisters. So the people using it aren’t always the most computer savvy. But seriously, how do they get so many viruses and spyware? Do they just click on every little thing that pops up?
I don’t even run a resident antivirus scanner on my personal computer, and I have yet to get infected with spyware or viruses. And yet my parents computer, my brothers computer, and various friends, all of whom are running resident antivirus programs get infected. Please people! Don’t click on popups and don’t install shady software. LOL
November 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
No anti-virus software? You’re just asking for trouble. You must have a firewall, otherwise I’m sure you’d be infected! Of course, a sufficiently cautious user is a great layer of protection.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Didn’t mean to say I have no antivirus, just that I don’t have the resident running type that constantly sits in the background scanning.
I do have antivirus that I run against anything I install or download.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I hope your family will read this post!
You could even link it to your family page.
… or you take the time to teach them personally how to better use the internet…
(*computing greetings*)