How often does your PC get infected?

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  1. IT1
    Posts : 14
    Windows Seven, Home Premium, x64
       #1

    How often does your PC get infected?


    Hello everyone,

    Answer in the following form:

    1. How often do you use the computer: (e.g. little use, intermediate or heavy user);
    2. Do you engage in 'at risk' activities: (e.g. torrents, online gaming, searching the web for new and interesting sites, downloading wallpapers, etc);
    3. Does anyone else use your computer;
    4. What is your computer security set up; and finally,
    5. How often does your PC get infected?

    Here is mine:

    1. How often do you use the computer? I'm a heavy user.
    2. Do you engage in 'at risk' activities? Yes.
    3. Does anyone else use your computer? No. Password protected.
    4. What is your computer security set up? I have a big security set up. This ranges from 'at browser' security. (For example, using a Sandboxing program to keep viruses away from the PC), I use Norton360 along with several 'on-demand' scanners such as Malwarebytes, TDSSKiller and Kaspasky Virus Removal Tool.
    5. How often does your PC get infected? Rarely happens. The last time I came across one was 2 years ago.
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  2. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
       #2

    1 heavy user
    2 no
    3 no
    4 Microsoft security essentials
    5 never had one
      My Computer


  3. Arc
    Posts : 35,373
    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 64-bit
       #3

    1. On an average, 14 hours a day !
    2. Not all, but selected.
    3. Not usually. There is only one user account.
    4. Avast! Free antivirus and MBAM .
    5. NEVER.
      My Computer


  4. scr
    Posts : 366
    1. Windows 7 Home Premium sp1 - 64bit 2. Windows 7 Pro sp1 - 64bit
       #4

    1. Turn it on in the morning and off before bed
    2. Sometimes, but no torrents or gaming
    3. No
    4. ESET Smat Security, MBAM and Super AntiSpyware on demand
    5. Never
      My Computer


  5. Posts : 10,994
    Win 7 Pro 64-bit
       #5

    1. Heavy
    2. No
    3. No
    4. MSE and MBAM
    5. Never had an unintentional infection. Have intentionally infected a VM to test various anti-malware products.
      My Computer


  6. Posts : 1,660
    Windows 8 Pro (32-bit)
       #6

    1 heavy user
    2 only the occasional torrent
    3 no
    4 Microsoft security essentials
    5 never had one
      My Computer


  7. IT1
    Posts : 14
    Windows Seven, Home Premium, x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Wow, some really interesting replies.
    I guess when it comes down to it - all you need is common sense.
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  8. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #8

    1. Every single day. I'm a systems admin for a living
    2. High risk activities : No (I don't consider getting wallpaper or gaming to be high risk)
    3. Yes, wife and kids from time to time.
    4. Router with NAT, MSE and MBAM. UAC on, All windows updates.
    5. Not a single issue in last 5 years.

    I consider "high risk" activities to be, searching for pirated software, warez, serial numbers, key generators, porn, peer to peer file transfers, torrenting sites for movies and such.
      My Computer


  9. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #9

    Same answer as Bongo:

    1 heavy user
    2 no
    3 no
    4 Microsoft security essentials
    5 never had one
      My Computer


  10. Posts : 472
    Windows 7 x64 SP1
       #10

    1. Intermediate, daily, do quite a bit of surfing, mostly research.
    2. No gaming or p2p stuff but will surf all areas sometimes using Tor or VPN. Have used Newsgroups in past.
    3. Sole user.
    4. Run as admin, UAC off (tut, tut), NIS 2011 installed along with SpywareBlaster and a few other tools. Install all usual OS updates and NIS updates daily.
    5. Never had any malware on this system or previous XP system - about 10 years of use.

    Also -

    I tend to use email accounts for specific purposes i.e. one for buying stuff, one purely for banking, others as I see fit. I never open anything I am not expecting.
    I do use quite a bit of free software but I am careful where it is downloaded from and I do actually buy stuff (even music) - I must be unusual!
    I use CCleaner after every session and so never keep cookies or save passwords to sites - well rarely. I use RoboForm for that.
    I take regular system images using Macrium Reflect and also back-up data daily.

    Be brave!

    :)
    Last edited by pincushion; 13 Jun 2012 at 13:07. Reason: add
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