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Poll - virusscanner

Gebruik je een virusscanner?rating

Op je computer thuis, of op het werk als je daar invloed op hebt.
Ja, het start op met mijn computer1042%
Ja, maar ik moet het handmatig aanzetten313%
Nee, maar ik gebruik af en toe een online scanner28%
Nee, hoef ik niet/wil ik niet gebruiken938%
24 stemmen

Nieuwste reacties:

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0 Jouke, 30 september 2008 12:56
JoukeI use quite a lot of specific software for which there is no good opensource alternative. Maybe that'll give some nice connections.
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0 Necrathex, 30 september 2008 10:43
NecrathexI never use a virus scanner, most important stuff I do is on a Linux system, which doesn't need any scanner. On my windows system I use mainly alternative/open source software, less vulnerable to exploiters.

Besides, virusses do not exist anymore, at the dawn of computing they were self-reproducing mini programs infecting files or filesystems and thus travelling over floppy's etc. Nowadays it's just crappy software being exploited by simple scripts or maliciously crafted files. Or even complete fake anti-virus packages, built to trick the user, rather than the computer.
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0 Jouke, 30 september 2008 09:51
JoukeThose who never use it. What do you do when you think you are infected with a virus?

Sometimes I have to download some hack to free my software of strange virussy software like Sony's DRM. But once in every two year I download a hack that could have been a virus. For that purpose I use an online scanner.
(Laatste wijziging door Jouke, 30 september 2008 09:56)
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0 Jouke, 29 september 2008 16:51
JoukeAnd with "now and then" I mean: once a year max.
(Laatste wijziging door Jouke, 29 september 2008 16:51)