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Hacker and virus activity

Postby coolroy05 » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:44 pm

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Postby Restek » Thu Aug 07, 2003 12:13 pm

It may well be true - it's hard to tell since these sort of surveys are often done by the companies that sell anti-virus products and so are a little biased. Nevertheless, it is the case that you really should have a good anti-virus product installed, and if you're online a firewall of some description is also a very good idea :)
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heh

Postby Fraz » Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:11 pm

I wouldn't be surpirsed... More and more kids are spending more and more time on Pcs by the day... It will trigger to them that hacking is somewhat... Cool and they would like to learn about that kind of stuff... Plus there is quite alot of hacking tutorials around the web... you don't even have to surf hard.
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Postby Aaron » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:21 pm

mostly newb trojaners, brute forcers, and google searchers. not much to worry about if you have decent protection. anyone who is capable of actually hacking your computer and doing serious damage when you have a firewall up probably wouldnt waste their time on your comp anyway.
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