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Originally Posted by cichlid
Having no firewall or AV software is not as big a problem as people may think. I've used a PC's without AV software for a couple of years and been ok (honetly, ya just have to be careful). Having a firewall only complicates things and only seems to be of benefit to people who are running services or who aren't that computer literate.
I would never be so reliant on my PC that any attack can be fixed in 10 minutes (reboot and insert Ghost image) or someone may see sensitive info (ok, theres a picture of my pet fish on the machine somewhere and maybe my Mums phone number). Really depends what you want your PC for though.
Ah well, looks like once again I've found another weird one that won't go away easily  |
I thought my pc was ok without AV for about 3 months after I got ntl cable, until everything started going slow....... I tried a free virus scanner and found no less than 53 virii (Ok only 7 seperate ones) on my pc, since then ive always kept a Firewall and Anti virus, they really use little system resources and are worth it, just in case, :P