[JRandomFreeper]

I let my network handle the virus threat and it does a great job, and has for years.

The laptop is never connected to the raw internet. I would be crazy to do that. ;)

Even I'm not that crazy.

I just don't like fixing something that works like I want it to.

/johnny

[tacticalogic]

Depends on whether you’re connecting to the internet, or the internet is connecting to you.

[dayglored]

> The laptop is never connected to the raw internet. I would be crazy to do that. ;) Even I'm not that crazy.

Scary thing is, a lot of people at home do exactly that. Hook their one computer up directly to the cable or DSL modem, no NAT router or firewall.

Luckily the past few years, it's become more standard practice for ISPs to install a NAT router (typically because they want wireless), so there's at least the possibility that the computer won't have its little legs spread for everybody out there to plug away at.

But even so, the teenager playing games will open up ports or move the machine's LAN IP to the DMZ and lose all the protection.

Sheesh. Anyway, glad to hear you're staying safe. :)

[Billthedrill]

It's just that wonderful time of the year. Second to last day of Finals Week here on campus, my users with data vital to their entire future lives that they haven't backed up and maybe not even saved to disk, haven't slept for two nights and only hanging on by virtue of high-test energy drinks and I get to jerk their machines out from under them with no warning!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ahem.