[Kamikaze]

*has never had a virus in his lifetime*
even though I don't use a virus scanner

why? Because:

I very rarely hand out my main email address
I don't use IE
I don't use Outlook
I am skeptical/careful

oh and the last one is: I don't use windows (though I used mainly windows and Mac OS for the first 13 or so years of my life so this doesn't really matter)


I think rather than cursing viruses you all need to lock up your compters and take precautions. (Same with keeping crackers away)

[Fury]

Kamikaze, I wonder how you know that you haven't had any viruses or trojans if you don't use virus scanner. It might very well be that you just haven't noticed any. Viruses are usually noticed but trojans may not be.

[Kamikaze]

It is possible, but highly unlikely. I didn't notice any odd files, or behavior that would be virus induced. As far as I know there are very few web browser exploits for non-IE browsers, and there's nothing to make me believe any non-IE browser actually fetched a virus from somewhere. I also used a mail program that didn't (as far as I know) activate anything in a mail file unless told to (text only iirc). I've only opened an attachment one or three times in my life. I also usually do research on a piece of software before downloading and installing.

I also should indicate that I don't regularly use a virus scanner (don't have one installed right now) but I have scanned a few times in the past (I had one installed back when I ran windows, though it was just sitting in disuse), and never found a virus (yeah, it wasn't frequent enough to be 100% sure).

Right now I'm sure I don't have a virus as I'm running linux (being rather careful about security), a virus scanner probably won't be needed.

[Fury]

You do as you like. But it is always better be safe than sorry.

[karajorma]

Put up a good firewall and never run suspect exe files and you really don't have much to worry about.

That said it is better to have a virus checker running.