Camper6
Well-known Member
- Location
- Northwestern Ontario Canada
I have been running a computer for about 20 years that I can remember. I mean home computers not industrial ones like the IBM System 36. Those mainframes were extremely fast. Backups were on 8" diskettes.
Those were standalone and not connected to the internet or such.
But home units is what I am talking about. Over the years I have had only two virus problems that caused a shutdown.
On one I took home a diskette from the golf course for some data. I was looking after the handicaps.
The diskette had a virus on it that wiped out the operating system. I had to reinstall the operating system.
On another it was the ransom virus where the computer is inoperable and the claim is that it's the FBI and that you have to pay to get your computer running again. (Even if you pay, you don't get it to run again.) That one was scary because if you had a camera installed it would show you a picture of your room.
Fortunately I was able to clear the ransom virus.
But those were the only two. And I did have an antivirus system installed but that doesn't make any difference if the virus that is used is a new one and your anti-virus is not updated.
On my present system I have no virus protection. It's an old unit. I took the anti virus off because they kept bugging me to pay for it. I couldn't believe how much faster the computer ran after I took it off.
Those were standalone and not connected to the internet or such.
But home units is what I am talking about. Over the years I have had only two virus problems that caused a shutdown.
On one I took home a diskette from the golf course for some data. I was looking after the handicaps.
The diskette had a virus on it that wiped out the operating system. I had to reinstall the operating system.
On another it was the ransom virus where the computer is inoperable and the claim is that it's the FBI and that you have to pay to get your computer running again. (Even if you pay, you don't get it to run again.) That one was scary because if you had a camera installed it would show you a picture of your room.
Fortunately I was able to clear the ransom virus.
But those were the only two. And I did have an antivirus system installed but that doesn't make any difference if the virus that is used is a new one and your anti-virus is not updated.
On my present system I have no virus protection. It's an old unit. I took the anti virus off because they kept bugging me to pay for it. I couldn't believe how much faster the computer ran after I took it off.