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Originally posted by lhunath
For one, worms scan for vulnorabilities, webservers can find your IP & User Agent, therefore, know whether you have IE, and when you do, know who to attack. Or just automatically install trojans which are then easily picked up by scanners.
Or just ad/spyware, which are, technically, you being hacked as well.

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What pages are you browsing? If you don't go to any "weird" pages, nothing will happen...

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Originally posted by lhunath
There's a very clear diffrence between not trusting something, and not using it lopardo, it's not because I do not trust Microsoft Windows, that I need to not use it at all. The fact that I don't trust Microsoft products, means that I will take precausions to protect myself against their possible failure, and take steps to easily recover when they do.
Btw, I didn't say that others are all good, I said that Microsoft products aren't to be trusted (generally), meaning, exactly what the sentence says, that they may fail you where you would expect them not to. (Like after you just installed all security patches available...).

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Have you ever suffered a serious attack? You're too paranoid
OK, so you don't trust MS products stability, but you shouldn't say something like "And as we all know, being a retard includes trusting Microsoft software", you'll scare newbies (not to mention the misuse of "retard").