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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 713781" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I can. People expect their computer to be just like a household appliance - toss out the manual and just use it. That will only get you by for so long. There was a time that when you bought a computer, you did so not just for the content it could provide you, but also because you enjoyed the computer itself. Those times are gone now.</p><p></p><p>Those of us who invest the time to actually learn how the nuts and bolts work and take a genuine interest in the OS, other than as a means to an end, will always be less prone to things like viruses - which are most commonly distributed by social engineering techniques (be it on Windows or Mac OS).</p><p></p><p>What's scary about Windows is the number of holes that are exploited on it. This is how worms attack a system - typical viruses infect a system by ignorance on the user's part (opening an email, inserting an infected disc, downloading an infected file, etc). Worms are completely different as they exploit fundamental flaws in the OS - the user needs to do nothing other than be on the wrong network, at the wrong time.</p><p></p><p>As always, knowledge is power.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 713781, member: 24098"] I can. People expect their computer to be just like a household appliance - toss out the manual and just use it. That will only get you by for so long. There was a time that when you bought a computer, you did so not just for the content it could provide you, but also because you enjoyed the computer itself. Those times are gone now. Those of us who invest the time to actually learn how the nuts and bolts work and take a genuine interest in the OS, other than as a means to an end, will always be less prone to things like viruses - which are most commonly distributed by social engineering techniques (be it on Windows or Mac OS). What's scary about Windows is the number of holes that are exploited on it. This is how worms attack a system - typical viruses infect a system by ignorance on the user's part (opening an email, inserting an infected disc, downloading an infected file, etc). Worms are completely different as they exploit fundamental flaws in the OS - the user needs to do nothing other than be on the wrong network, at the wrong time. As always, knowledge is power. [/QUOTE]
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