Shoutbox

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Originally posted by lopardo
An attacker would have to make you enter to a page with malicious code in order to exploit a vulnerability (you have to enter that page), so I don't see what the big deal is...

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Well, I think there are ways of putting malicious code in images, so you could load a forum thread or something where someone has a dodgy off-site avatar, and the bad stuff would be loaded without you knowing. Keeping Windows patched will usually prevent that though.

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Originally posted by lopardo
I never used any virus scanner, never found a really good one, so I just don't open suspicious files (common sense) and I never got infected.

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Yeah... When I had Win98, I had absolutely no firewall or anti-virus (because the PC was so slow ) and I was fine with common sense.

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Windows XP has its own firewall, and does its job pretty darn well, so you don't need third party software.

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Yeah, I agree... Windows Firewall seems pretty good from experience/testing and stuff I've read about it. Though the new icon is a little dodgy...