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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Except there are scans for typhoid and cholera.
Gf is actually waiting for blood results back for typhoid at the moment.
Now we could say "hey the chances are so small why check? never had it before so I don't have it" like you suggest, but we'd rather be safe than sorry.
You can claim you've been virus free for 10 years until you're blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact you're using false logic as you've never looked for infections during those 10 years.
NTL had some servers which were "virus free" except they weren't as you can see of you search el reg.
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Presumably your gf has symptoms or other reasons that make it a reasonable, proportionate step to have a typhoid 'scan' ... i.e. I assume she is not getting a test merely because typhoid exists and has the capability of infecting her. It's reasonably rare to catch it even overseas, and incredibly rare to catch it within the UK.
There is nothing false about my logic; the steps I do take to keep my computer clean and working properly are reasonable and proportionate. They stop short of installing and running AV software, but then I reject the idea that seems to underly many of the posts in this thread, that AV software is some sort of bare minimum precaution for any computer regardless of OS.
On the other hand, there's something more than a little wobbly about your own logic I think. I've never had an HIV test. Is it false for me to claim, beyond reasonable doubt, that I am not HIV+?