CAUTION: to people uploading anti spyware systems

hmmmm......i totally forgot about that...
time to freeze my laptop, ty for reminding

 

Look at it this way: everybody who has a virus on their computer has an email account, right? So obviously, it's the email. Everybody who has a virus has an internet connection, right? So blame everything on the internet.

correlation ≠ causation. A male with an internet connection is more than likely to have at least one picture or video of a naked woman stored away. That means that pretty much every time you find a virus on a guy's computer, it's going to have porn on it. Does that mean the virus was caused by porn?

Let's consider at the media pornography uses. It comes in jpeg/gif/tif/etc., avi/wmv/flv/etc. Can any of these be a virus? No, because virii are executables. And with the copious amounts of free streaming porn available, there is little reason to download anything anyway. It's impossible to get a virus from a video stream.

Virii come in many packages. They will come disguised as serial codes, free programs, free games, and even porn. It's up to the user to understand exactly what a disguised virus looks like, so as to easily avoid them. I can only think of two things to do which keep me from contracting a computer virus, regardless of what content I'm looking for.

1.) Spam sites are to be avoided. Spam websites are basically sites that advertise having something you want, but often serve nothing - or virii. They're easy to spot. Being on a webpage that hosts real content has a distinct feel of... actually having content; spam pages often appear to offer up scores of content which oddly seem like variables of the exact terms you put into the google search. Some of them will even place the download speed in the title (7,926 KB/s!), which is utterly ridiculous as everybody should know that is not how bandwidth limits are advertised. It's as if they're saying that's how fast you'll be downloading the file, which is plain crazy because they don't know what kind of internet connection I have, nor can they predict the exact speed to the last digit, even if they knew my personal bandwidth.

Other variations of spam websites are pages that are actually spam in themselves. This means you'll see duplicates of them all around the net with different titles depending on what you searched in google. They'll advertise a video of exactly what you want. It's at this point something should look suspicious because the flash player does not appear to host any content; it looks like a cardboard cutout of a flash player. Then, it'll ask you to download some crap to play the video. Who in their right mind would agree to do that?

2.) If you're downloading a folder or zip/rar, make sure you know what is inside before downloading. Don't download files from sites offering serials. A serial is nothing but text, so it should very easily be hosted on the website. I don't condone that sort of thing anyway, but I used to do it when I was younger so if you're going to go serial hunting, at least know not to download.

If you're downloading something from a page that allows user comments, check the comments. If it's fake, they'll say so. Look at the file description. Folder size. Before downloading, can you see a preview of the contents? Is it all what you would expect it to look like? If anything seems suspiciuos (as folders with virii always do), don't download.

Sometimes very legitimate-looking programs will carry spyware. Just look around the internet for what people say about something before making it a mainstay program on your computer.