If you have computer viruses, trojan horses and infections, it's because you go to dirty sites.

[Mike 03]

I'm so tired of people assuming that you only get computer viruses if you go to porn sites or other "bad" sites, as if a computer virus is the equivalent of a venereal disease.

People still seem to believe this.

For the record, I don't go to porn sites nowadays (I used to check them out, when I was younger, but after a while it's a bit pointless and repetitive). My "online" day is basically this, and it seldom deviates:

1. Google News
2. Weather in my state (government weather site)
3. Medical News Today to read the new studies/headlines for that day
4. Bloomberg to read the business news and listen to the radio, or
5. Listen live to news out of Los Angeles or San Francisco
6. or ReachMD, to live stream medical news, or
7. Livestream KGO newstalk
8. Coast to Coast AM, to download and/or listen to the previous night's program
9. CSPAN, to see if there are any interesting congressional or senate hearings
10. Last but not least, spending the evenings at DU if I have the energy.
11. Sirius and XM radio sites, to check out upcoming schedules for favorite programs or channels.
12. Sometimes order from Amazon or my nutritonal supplement company, or a retailer...



Not very thrilling.

And, No, I don't know where or why my computer is out of control due to trojan viruses. But it sure ain't porn.

[CreekDog]

1. A "friend" used the computer at my house while staying there and got me a virus

from a porn site. :eyes: :wtf:

the software told me what virus it was and what site it came from. mr. charley church too... :eyes:

[DarkTirade]

2. You should always use protection. Practice safe cybersex.

[Bucky]

3. Coast to Coast AM? God, what a perv!

And anyone going to Bloomberg is just begging for a hard crash.

[City of Mills]

4. I posted some advice in your GD link

Let me know if it's too technical, I think it will help you out though. Viruses come from everywhere, the latest one I'm dealing with on the corporate network is a little nasty worm that is getting passed around by infecting flash drives, which then infect any computer the flash drive is used on. Fortunately, it's not too damaging, just extremely annoying. It's called W32.Ircbrute.

[mainegreen]

5. The biggest vectors of infection are still email and 'free games' or 'free apps'

not porn