my laptop got virus

[Thorham]

I use torrent sites to try and track down old anime movies and episodes. It's amazing how much junk tries to get onto your computer. But windows been the cheap Whore that it is opens its legs and let's anything in.

Hmm, funny. I use Windows XP Pro without any anti-malware protection at all and I never have any problems at all. It's an old habit from when I still only had A Pentium 3, but I've found that I have no use for said software at all.

What the hell do people do with their machines :p

[Thorham]

Hackers harm individuals not corporations.

Corporations are targeted by professional hackers for monetary gain. Only amateur hackers target individuals (unless there's something of value to gain from those individuals).

So why do we believe they target corps like Microsoft?

Monetary gain. Not all hackers break into systems for the fun of it.

What's clever about viruses or malware.

It's clever in the way it works when it works very well.

Simply, hackers are bullies

Not all of them are, some or criminals who want to make money.

PS: Stay away from the porn sites.

Why? Porn sites are plenty safe as long as you have certain plug-ins disabled. I use Opera, and have an 'Enable Plug-Ins' check box in my tool bar, and 99 percent of the time I have this unchecked.

That free offer to get you a larger penis, that's malware.

When surfing porn, simply don't use the ads, and focus on the content.