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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I've been online since the early 80's. In all that time, I've never been hacked and I've never had a virus. It's just a case of taking normal precautions and not doing something stupid. I've had firewalls since I built my own on a unix box back in the 90's (the firewall on the typical router is fine now) and I've used anti-virus since Norton was state of the art. I don't click on links in e-mails. Just simple stuff.
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I will admit that during my IT career, I have made a few dollars cleaning up computers belonging to those who didn't see why they needed antimalware software since "they were careful about which websites they visited and never clicked on links in emails from unknown persons".
To me, the definition of low hanging fruit was one genius who had a telco modem with two LAN ports. One of them was wired to his wireless router but he decided to plug his computer into the second LAN port bypassing the router since "I thought it would be faster". You can probably guess what happened when an unpatched Windows computer was exposed directly to the Internet.