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Originally Posted by pbradley
Hey, he said he doesn't want to get slowed down by viruses, not I.
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haha fair enough
that said, i've been on windows for years now with a free antivirus and have never been infected... at least, not that i was aware of
i think if people had got really basic security reflexes, they probably wouldn't get so infected. A friend of mine created a phishing page once in order to see if people would fall into it. He created a simili facebook connect page, and then sent mails to his whole contact list about a new friend invitation; the mail was all lowercase, included loads of spelling mistakes and was sent from a "@gmail.com" address. Yet 15 people fell into it, including one whose password was the same for basically everything, including his paypal account... I mean come on, is it that hard to pay a bit of attention to what you're clicking on?
Same with MSN viruses where someone sends you "pics from the last party
". I guess I could understand how they would work for native-English speakers, but I don't know how a French could download one of these... eh