Virus??

[Mousikos]

Yeah, if you break it down to "you have to perform the action that causes the infection" then it can make it seem like the user's fault, but all too often that action is only browsing the web normally and being hit with some exploit that allows software installation, file operations, etc. without explicit user action to that end.

All I'm saying is that you don't have to open the e-mail attachment named "i-love-you.jpg.exe" anymore to get infected; you can actually do it without being an idiot now, so it doesn't make any sense to go around saying that to avoid being infected you just have to not do the wrong thing. That's obvious and useless, like saying that to live forever you simply have to avoid dying. Not opening strange e-mail attachments was an easy way to avoid being infected. How do you anticipate that some reputable website will be served a malicious banner ad by someone renting ad space? It happens.

I'm sure you know what you're doing with your gear there, but I'm curious now how you're sure you aren't infected. Do you check regularly with on-demand scanners, monitor processes/hooks/autoruns, or just see that there are no symptoms? Maybe you're a member of a stealthy botnet. Woooo~

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Is botnet slave technically a virus? I thought that'd be a rootkit.