TechieSooner
Supreme [H]ardness
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By passive scan I meant something that's done without you having to do anything.Even with automatic scans, why bother lowering the priority? If you've set a scan schedule that somehow gets in the way of your work, reschedule it for time you know you're away. That's both more convenient and better for your productivity. Lowering the priorities is only going to reduce the average CPU use per second when you're doing many other things (with higher priority).
Also, what is a:
?
IE, if you download something off the internet, it gets scanned passively...
Yes.Do you find it necessary to scan archives? .cab .zip, etc.?
For two reasons:
1) You can run still executables without having to unzip it in Windows
2) If in the case of a RAR file, which Windows cannot natively open, it's still a good idea to scan it so that in case there's anything bad inside: it gets cleaned.
I think a more appropriate analogy is "I've never accidentally eaten poison before, so why should I go through the bother of carrying around poison control's phone number?"
Wearing a seat belt is something PREVENTATIVE.
Eating poison is a decision.
What are you going to do when a legitimate website you visit becomes compromised?
Does that, you know... actually hurt your case?Auto accidents cannot be avoided, as they depend on caution and responsibility on the part of other parties. You can do everything right and still get hit by someone doing something wrong.
Driving down the road and BAM, you get T-boned. Won't you be glad you had some safety measures in place?
That right there is admission you acknowledge that crap, even with good computing habits, can get onto your PC.I scan my machine for viruses with a scanner every once in a blue-moon to make sure I haven't gotten a virus
You fail.