Serious question about viruses

[DudE132]

This is actually a serious thread though it may be silly, I have been downloading quite a bit of porn recently, and have yet to encounter a single virus. I have done multiple quick and full system scans with both Avast and MalwareBytes Anti Malware, and they always come up clean. Is it just over exaggerated that porn gives off viruses or am I just lucky? Or could the viruses just be well hidden which I honestly doubt.

 

[joedastudd]

Depends where your downloading from and if your careful (scan files before opening them).
Most of the time its people downloading files from media sharing sites and running something like Babes.avi.exe.

Common-sense stops 99% of viruses.

 

[DudE132]

It's usually from places like mediafire, depositfiles, fileserve, rapidshare.

Would you say I'm clean if these System scans consistently find no threats?

 

[shanky887614]

you only really get viruses from .rar files or exe files.

its usually from the website's that you visited that you get the viruses from.

if your really paranoid.

malwarebytes works in safemode.


might be worth getting a firewall/hips if your that paranoid. one of the best ones ive found is comodo internet security


the nice thing ive found is it plays nice with malwarebytes and other antivirus programs. so even if you dont like it you have nothing to use


(there was another one but i cant remember the name)

 

[shanky887614]

It's usually from places like mediafire, depositfiles, fileserve, rapidshare.

Would you say I'm clean if these System scans consistently find no threats?

i would.


the worst viruses attach themselves to system files. so it sounds like your pc is clean




that is not actually accurate. those particular sites don't give you viruses its the files people upload to them. same with any website, dont download things that you dont know what they are and dont open email attachments from spam or messages from friends that are formatted out of character


that seems one of the current scams atm where they manage to get the contact info off someone you know then spoof there name and email in an email they send and add an attachment and these can be full of viruses

 

[jsc]

Would you say I'm clean if these System scans consistently find no threats?

You are probably clean.

But it is much more accurate to state, "I have no detected threats." than it is to state, "I have no viruses."