I has a confession. [rant]

[soyuz7]

you should really firewall your outgoing internet connection with a router and aside from that, people get viruses, not the PC. have a separate PC for torrenting, message boarding porning ect and don't take stupid chances opening emails. you have to practically invite a virus onto your pc by visting unsafe sites or opening dangerous files.

the problem with PCs is the users. the difference with macs is they hide or automate everything so the user can't mess it up as easily.

[annikk.exe]

Actually almost all consumer routers don't contain a firewall in the textbook definition; they just translate the open internet into a NAT network, which effectively does the same job as a firewall would. In a lot of them there is even a section in the configuration web page called "Firewall", but this is still not a true firewall.
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Also, this:

the problem with PCs is the users. the difference with macs is they hide or automate everything so the user can't mess it up as easily.

..is roughly how I feel about the whole thing.


-Annikk