Is it still neccessary to scan a computer for viruses on a daily or weekly basis?

[froggyboy604]

I think if you go on a lot of porn sites, (pirated music, movies, music, and software websites), or random websites which look fishy with tons of pop-ups, and weird ads, download a lot of attachments, or your PC is used by multiple users then it will be best to scan a PC for viruses on a daily basis.

But, if you just use your PC for watching and listening to media files, software and files which you bought or know are most likely safe then I think scanning a PC on a weekly or even monthly basis will be best.

These days most free anti-virus like AVG and paid-antimalware has a shield and automatic update which stops most viruses and malware from infecting PCs, so I think it is harder for viruses to infect a PC unless the security software sucks!

[Skeithex]

AVG free seems to do the job just fine and I got my computer protection programs set up to scan and run at a certain point of every week.

[SetoTK]

But, if you just use your PC for watching and listening to media files, software and files which you bought or know are most likely safe then I think scanning a PC on a weekly or even monthly basis will be best.

erm well your very wrong there in the last year there have been several counts of where legitimate website have been compromised to spread malware via XSS, Malicious adverts, worms and a couple other methods if i remember rightly

By default your should have at a minimum a realtime scanning engine that scans as data comes into your computer and a firewall that monitor inbound AND outbound network traffic at minimum you want it on a weekly basis

[froggyboy604]

erm well your very wrong there in the last year there have been several counts of where legitimate website have been compromised to spread malware via XSS, Malicious adverts, worms and a couple other methods if i remember rightly

By default your should have at a minimum a realtime scanning engine that scans as data comes into your computer and a firewall that monitor inbound AND outbound network traffic at minimum you want it on a weekly basis

I guest it is safest just to buy DVDs or Blu-ray of a movie or CD from a retail store and just rip it myself with Virtual PC or VMware to watch. But, it will be really slow on older PC.

[SetoTK]

again you would be wrong though to the best of my knowledge not completely.

just for the hell of it Sony were nice enough to giveaway a free rootkit that made it trivial for malicious types to hide executables from the windows API with some of the audio cd's
this year was either activision or ubisoft think it was ubisoft though that released "Pretend to be an assasin while really just being a fairytale character following a creed of some crap" or 'Assasins creed 2' which required you to be connected to the interwebs while playing so your better off pirating the game or at least getting a nocd for it as thats just BULLSHIT interwebs connections black out and what do most non boring people do when interwebs falls over they play games cept that can't because stupid game requires interwebs connection.

[froggyboy604]

Ah, I remember Sony introducing Rootkits. I believe most of those CDs are destroyed according to News reports.

I heard about this too that Assassin Creed 2 require a constant internet connection which is kind of dumb since if a players internet suddenly dies or restarts then they can't play. I don't really get the appeal of Assassin Creed. It just seem of have copied "Metal Gear Solid" or the old N64 Perfect Dark and slapped a HD Renaissance skin on it with old school European stereotypes.

I miss the old days of gaming where you either install a game on your PC or put a cartridge into a console and have a good time enjoying a game.