On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 10:58:09 AM UTC+8, Virus Guy wrote:
 
> 
> Enjoy your NT-based version of Windoze.  NT - Where the vulnerabilities
> go in before the name goes on.

OK I see.  And there are people who still believe in MS-DOS (and it's 'viru=
s free').  Dustbin is probably one of them.

I've never had a serious problem with viruses in Windows NT or subsequent v=
ersions.  Sometimes you do get software driver issues that require a rollba=
ck, so I backup every two weeks and data more frequently.  Also on occasion=
 my PC will freeze (no mouse, no nothing) on a porn site due to I suspect e=
ither Flash or equivalent not working properly (which I try and keep up to =
date) or some virus trying to take over the OS and Windows shutting it down=
..  On my BIOS I've checked the 'prevent buffer overruns' that AMD's bios mo=
therboards have, not sure if it helps but supposedly it's for a sort of har=
dware anti-virus protection.  I use just Windows Defender for my AV.

If you're really paranoid about protection I guess you could surf the net u=
sing some small market share OS like Linux from a Windows Virtual Machine, =
like Oracle's VirtualBox.

RL
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