Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I'm not here to tell you how to run your show. Your computer is your computer and entirely so. What I am here to tell you is that you should never assume you're safe, and you should definitely not assume you're safer than those who do have extra security precautions enabled.
If you have seriously taken any time to read any of my posts, you know that I spent the better part of my computing life without antivirus, and certainly without UAC. Today, I tell people that MSE/Windows defender and Malwarebytes is enough to get you along. I still stick to that, even in this topic. What @Munawar said, however, was not out of place in this topic, because if you have the option to have more security on your PC, why not have it? Would you not rather be safe than sorry?
And by the way, I'm not one of those people who runs dropbox and btsync folders willy nillly. If that is you, as far as I'm concerned, you deserve to be infected; you're basically asking for it.
Getting back to the house analogy for just a second? I don't currently own a house. My wife asks me to check the door every single freaking night. In my mind, the absolute question is always, if the door and its lock status mean so offal much to you why don't you take the time to check it yourself? I never ask her that question. Why? Because security falls to me and she has left it that way since the day we got married. If anything happens to breach that security? I'm responsible. I know that I locked the door when I came through it to enter the house. I also happen to know that it'll help her feel safer if I go and check it... Just, in, case. No... I know it's not necessary, but would I forgive myself entirely if I knew there was even a slightest chance in blazes that the door was unlocked and I slept right through the kids being kidnapped or anything else of the sort?
I think of UAC kind of like that in some senses. I can tell UAC not to alert me as much as all that if UAC is really annoying me, or I can tell it to shut up entirely, but once I tell it to shut up entirely, I cannot blame MS for not trying to help me stay safe. In the same way, I could honestly tell my wife not to nag me about checking the door, but if she doesn't remind me and it falls upon me to make that responsibility entirely my own and I should chance to forget? I'm stupid!
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