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**Chappy** · 10-21-2008

Bang On mike-cow!!

It's absolutely INSANE to own a connected computer today without at least, good AV and Firewall. Anyone who says different simply does not understand the complexity of today's Malware and just how prevalent and invasive it can be, no matter How smart the user thinks they are.
After 9 years of being an Independent, new Unknown Variant tester for AV companies, and at least as long working with the developers of AdAware, Spybot, HijackThis, MalwareBytes and others...I know just how easy it is for even the most Careful security experts, who know this stuff backwards, to become infected accidentally even with all the tools.
So if they can get infected, what makes others think they can navigate the WildWiredWorld safely without it.

Nutz...just Nutz I say!

10-21-2008	#4 (permalink)
Chappy Vista Ultimate 64bit 357 posts	Re: For those of you who say you don't need antivirus on vista... Bang On mike-cow!! It's absolutely INSANE to own a connected computer today without at least, good AV and Firewall. Anyone who says different simply does not understand the complexity of today's Malware and just how prevalent and invasive it can be, no matter How smart the user thinks they are. After 9 years of being an Independent, new Unknown Variant tester for AV companies, and at least as long working with the developers of AdAware, Spybot, HijackThis, MalwareBytes and others...I know just how easy it is for even the most Careful security experts, who know this stuff backwards, to become infected accidentally even with all the tools. So if they can get infected, what makes others think they can navigate the WildWiredWorld safely without it. Nutz...just Nutz I say!
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