[Vaskez]

The way I think about the PC security issue as a home user:

1) Nobody knows or cares about you (in terms of your computer). The chance of you in particular being a target or any sort of infiltration attack is 1 in several million.

2)What's the worst they can do? Run some script? access your files? At the very very worst you reinstall windows. But keep backups of important stuff, keep a backup of the registrey and applications on a seperate partition and you can be up and running in no time.

3) You always have ultimate control - just disconnect from the web if you think anything funny is going on.

4) 99.9% of spy and adware is just advertising companies gathering harmless data - scan once a month with spybot.

5)Your firewall should stop ANY unknown traffic anyway - until you tell it to let a certain program through so diallers etc. will get stopped.

Is it really worth worrying so much and spending so much time researching, installing, updating, using all this "security" stuff? Don't we all have better things to worry about?

[ 01-19-2004, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]