Peter, AVG does regular scans of my drives. Furthermore, I every now and then do spyware checks and I do a lot of high end rendering, which needs about 99% of my processor, so I'm fairly familiar with the services and apps I run. I have a network monitor gauge on my desktop which let's me know what's going out and coming in.
So, I guess if there is malware on my machine, it's never caused me any problems, as it doesn't seem to consume processor cycles or network bandwidth, and I have never seen any identity theft. And seeing how I make my living on my Windows machine, and have since around 1994 (before that it was a Mac), I would find it very debilitating to have to take it off the network because I was scared of malware. But, if anyone is very concerned of such attacks, than by all means unplug it from the network. And NEVER plug a USB drive into it. And it's always a good idea to unplug it from the wall during a storm-- while you stand under a doorway or curl up fetal-like in the tub-- just to be super safe. On Monday, November 1, 2010, Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Chipp, not saying you are wrong, but how would you know? That's the thing > that got me, and why I think Alejandro's thought of taking Windows offline > is quite sensible. The problem with windows getting compromised is I am not > sure you necessarily know when its happened. > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution