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Originally posted by Absorbation
Viruses are common these days, they spread through downloads, web pages and instant messages.
They spread through infecting other files, not by downloading... Of course you can download an infected file, but that isn't the virus' doing...
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Trojans save in your temporary internet files.
They almost never do... They mostly save themselfs in many other places (eg: like c:\windows).
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Trojans can be harmless in rare cases.
Although true (and that goes for virusses in general also), I never have seen a harmless trojan since virusses became "popular" back in the mid 80's...
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Originally posted by Absorbation
some are to collect passwords. (Backdoor Trojans)
A backdoor trojan is much much more then something to collect passwords. A backdoor trojan opens a port on your computer which can be used by the hacker (or anyone who knows about it) to break into your computer, collect info, do bad stuff, etc...
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Originally posted by Absorbation
A Trojan cannot spread though so there should only be one infected item.
Very wrong. Many trojans have spreading meganisms also. Although a pure trojan will indeed not spread, a pure trojan is very rare (if not non-existing). Trojans are almost always combined with worms or normal virus-meganisms.
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Originally posted by Absorbation
A worm is a type of virus but rapidly spreads
That's not the definitation of a worm! A worm is a type of program which seeks his way true networks to infect other computers. This can be done by mailing itself, breaking firewalls, etc... The difference with a virus is that a virus infects files, a worm seeks his own way for spreading.
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Ad ware slows down your computer
Not always. Decent adware will not slow your computer down in any way (unless you call "opening a window" slowing down your PC. But in that case, anything will slow down your PC)
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Diallers are terrible. They dial up to the internet are can charge money to your internet provider which will make you pay.
No, dialers will not charge your internet provider some money. Dialers change your internet configuration, and dial to paynumbers instead to your normal provider. This will costs you money as almost all "dialer"-numbers are heavy pay numbers, and/or located in other countries.
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Internet providers now do not make you pay as they are aware of the problem
Many providers do charge the money and you will have to pay it!
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Never have two anti- viruses
There is absolutely nothing wrong in having two anti-virusses. In fact, it is even better!!! The only problem can be that you have two running memory resident anti-virus softwares which could conflict with each other. But running a periodic full system scan with more then 1 virusscanner is a good thing to do, not a bad thing.
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Originally posted by Absorbation
Do not click link or files with .pif
Why only .pif?? Many virusses infect many many other filetypes also... It is not true that .pif is the most common extension for virusses though! .pif is used by some "popular" virusses, but that doesn't mean it is the common virus-extension. In fact, infected exe's are far far more common...
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