I have such a preoccupation with the boards and will be doing other things with TER minimized so I can click back and forth.
I'll watch a TV show and when the commercial comes on I check out this or my local board. Doing my other projects i'll click back and forth. When i'm out during the day I am so lost without TER.
as I understand it, the longer you are on line the greater the chance of infection with a worm or a virus (a bit like bb.) If this is wrong, I would love to be re educated.
My mama used to tell me that if I sat on the ground for a long time, the worms would crawl up inside me. And had never even heard of a computer back then.
between when a virus/worm begins to circulate, and the "good guys" get a copy, and then update their product to detect and destroy it.
Most but not all these bugs circulate as attachments to email, so always be careful and only open attachments you are expecting. Just because you know the sender doesn't make it safe. Many viruses propogate by reading the address book and sending itself out to the entire list. I never open electronic greeting cards. They are one of known virus carriers.
Staying logged on to TER 24/7 is relatively low risk. Checking out lots of providers websites is a bit more risk, as you will expose your computer to more potential sources of a bug.
In the strictest technical sense, that is correct. But if you have taken the appropriate precautions, the risks are fairly negligible. Your operating system should be up to date and patched at all times. A good anti-virus program should be running with current definitions. Ideally, your computer should also be behind a router that blocks ports you don't actually use.
Continuing the computing to sex analogy, having the above-mentioned protections in place is practicing "safe sex". The risk is still non-zero, but so acceptibly small that I wouldn't hesitate to partake at will, and leave computer on so that I could have a long session or even just a quickie without the foreplay of boot-up.
I'm not a computer expert by any means... I log in & out of TER & other known sites at will. I'm home during the day & might do so several times. My computer has auto-updates & is up to date, running Anti-virus auto scans daily & various scan programs regularly. In my limited experience, I find surfing the vast unknown to be most risky. Not so with known sites. I do leave the computer on during the day but manually log off the net when I'm away from it. skb
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