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Re: Are you using security protection

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Before running any Keygen or Crack i always do an online Anti-Virus scan like VirusTotal.

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Re: Do you use security protection

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Re: Are you using security protection

I agree. I never have had any problems with any OS. It's all depends on the user. OK maybe 3 BSODs in the life time of OS.

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Windows is pathetic. I wish game developers would collectively agree to start developing for linux gui's so we can be done with windows for good. Fails OS

I think they all have their problems..but the most vulnerable is the user in any game.

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Well I can say that I don't. Even on Linux. For one I am behind a router. That in it self is protection.

I run windows in Virtual Machines, currently Windows XP, 7 and 8. Only thing there is what comes with windows. No third party stuff at all. Windows XP and 7 come with it's built in firewall and unless it is turned off, isn't that protection? Windows 8 comes with Defender.

My browser of choice is Firefox across all operating systems I use (Windows, Linux, OS X and OS/2) I Have several security related add-ons installed. More to keep the clutter down than for security. I won't hesitate to turn them off if needed. I have been computing for many years, PC type computers since 1982. To date I have never been infected by malware. Not that malware hasn't tried. I've always stopped it. In my experience, 100% of the infections I have encountered, dealt with are, were self inflicted.
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reply to Oleg
If you use no security applications, How do you determine whether or not your PC is 100% free of any infections?

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It's not just the BSODs that we're talking about here, folks - although I still get that or something similar on occasion. It's also the endless security patches (and these really will NEVER END) - 10 or so patches just yesterday, for example, plus the emergency patches a week or two before that, plus another dozen or so patches a week or two before that. Plus the infamous "Not responding" messages, and repeated registry problems (the registry was a terrible idea - or at least it's a terrible implementation), and the memory management issues, and so on and so forth - ad infinitum, ad nauseum. (I've lost count now of the number of fundamental flaws out there.) And Microsoft's promises that their next OS release WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER - only it never is, or is only just marginally so.

In my opinion - and in my experience, of over 30 years now - the only people who believe Microsoft systems are of any appreciable quality are those who have simply never worked with anything else, or at least haven't worked with anything else of truly high quality (these tend to cost real $$$). I'm not saying that there aren't "good enough" Microsoft systems for at least limited uses, but these are certainly not to be held up as examples of high quality. "Cheap enough to get us by for now, if we close our eyes and keep our fingers crossed" - maybe.

The entire Microsoft ecosystem is corrupt. There are certain segments of the IT industry who have realized that it's time to move on, and who are becoming quite vocal about it. Microsoft, of course, keeps making promises, but by the time they actually deliver on these promises (if ever), there may not be anyone left around waiting to benefit from them.

PS: And for those of you who say that you've never been hit with malware - the question has already been asked: "How do you know if you've haven't run a deep scan for this?" (Actually, multiple scans using multiple products are usually necessary for full disclosure.) Also, YOU may not be the ultimate target here; you may just be the man-in-the-middle, or the endpoint machine in a botnet, or whatever. Or you may be seeing ads or pop-ups or other things on your machine that are the result of tampering, and you just don't realize it. Or you may have been the victim or a hit-and-run, where the perpetrator (human or machine) scanned your system and decided there was nothing of immediate value there, so they moved on - possibly covering their tracks when they left. Or they have may hacked certain web pages that do their dirty-work only while they are loaded up in your browser, and then they disappear after that. The possibilities here are almost endless.