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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 833453" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>You can be. The only times that my systems have ever been infected, is when I've manually opened an infected file. I've never been infected just by visiting a compromised website.</p><p></p><p>On XP systems, it was possible to get infected just being connected to the internet. This changed when Service Pack 2 was released, as the Windows Firewall was now enabled by default.</p><p></p><p>I've visited thousands of safe and potentially unsafe websites over the years and not once have I got infected. I've even visited plenty of websites, where either my browser or Google - if I was clicking on a search result, warned me against visiting.</p><p></p><p>If you've got an updated system, then the chance of getting randomly infected, without manually opening an infected file, is very slim.</p><p>Without updates, it can be a different story. I once had a work system infected from just visiting a website. An outdated version of Java, was most likely the cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 833453, member: 31436"] You can be. The only times that my systems have ever been infected, is when I've manually opened an infected file. I've never been infected just by visiting a compromised website. On XP systems, it was possible to get infected just being connected to the internet. This changed when Service Pack 2 was released, as the Windows Firewall was now enabled by default. I've visited thousands of safe and potentially unsafe websites over the years and not once have I got infected. I've even visited plenty of websites, where either my browser or Google - if I was clicking on a search result, warned me against visiting. If you've got an updated system, then the chance of getting randomly infected, without manually opening an infected file, is very slim. Without updates, it can be a different story. I once had a work system infected from just visiting a website. An outdated version of Java, was most likely the cause. [/QUOTE]
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