I'm a landed immigrant and when we first came here i did use pentium 4 pc's now I have win 7 with duel core and core 2 duo, my oss are good enough to run updates but I don't see the point of getting bothered with updates and why
I'm fully backed up
getting infection no big deal for me at all (I even enjoy playing with it)
I am not using online banking.
And it takes only 20 minute to recover my OS
To run auto update and getting bothered with UAC doesn't worth it, assuming I'll get infected once a year, anyway it's a good idea to restore image once a year.
Telling me to update the system coz i may get infected with bios virus is the same as i will tell not to leave home you might get infected with deadly virus.
Hold on mister, let me put you back on your spot right away !!!!!!
Let me adress some of the things that i have said and what others have said, but more importantly the total lack of understanding from your side, Now before you consider this reply a personal attack please hear me out first ok?
No One is forcing you to update or use certain standards, but we strongly advise you to pay attention to what we say as we are here to help.
And if you make certain comments in the way you did well then you can expect a reply like this one:
It is totally true that backing up your OS can indeed restore your pc within 20 minutes, however the odds that you are going to lose data are reasonable considering you are wiping your HDD everytime you get infected.
Obviously because you are not using a AV program you have NO means of knowing that something is wrong unless your PC starts to act funny, or because you suddenly notice weird processes in your process list.
So which means that a virus on the background will totally slip your visual inspection, while the same virus can use your PC to conduct attacks upon, Routers, Networks, Other computers and webpages. (Yes even simple trojans can conduct such attacks) In the mean time a virus might use some of your computing power to assemble new virusses and malicous codes and spread them over the net, using a simple exploit check example: A simple trojan is running on your PC and is spamming Generic Trojans using specific exploit criteria then these little nifty relative harmless trojans scan each connection your pc is going to make and if a targets comes by that is just as BAD configured like your computer then these trojans will hop over and make a call back to the original creator or bot network which will send a nice data package with a payload and then the fun really starts.
This is just a small example where
YOU as ignorant user take part in a online crime. Let me say this ones: Currently there is no HARD law that will force a user to maintain his or her PC, however your contract with your ISP DOES mention that you are responisble for your end of the connection and that damages due to
YOUR actions (Or lack of actions) might and probably will get you in harms way with your provider and eventually with the law.
As i mentioned before there are a few laws within the US and EU that are being accepted which will force you as end user to maintain a certain standard regarding your computer notable: Legit & Updated OS, Internet Security (FW+AV+AS) and Parental Controls (If you got kids)
These laws are NOT being made because the government want to censor your actions, but these kind of laws are being made because of people like you. Banks, Online Shops and general webpages suffer millions and millions of damages worldwide due to people like yourself.
Did you know that over 80% of all the online attacks are being done by infected home computers? And did you know that if your PC participates in such attack that by law you can end up in jail? You might say: Well ill just claim i did not know, wel its your responsibility to secure your PC and you failed to do so and thus you are just as guilty as the original attacker.
Look it up on the net, you might be suprised in how much trouble you can get.
So that being said let me point out you joined a active community which focusses in stopping online dangers and helping people who do not know how to secure their pc's there is loads of knowledge here so you might wanna pay a bit of attention to what people have to say here.
Telling me to update the system coz i may get infected with bios virus is the same as i will tell not to leave home you might get infected with deadly virus.
I sort of already replied to this, but let me say something directly here to these words you put down.
Yes i mentioned a BIOS virus as ONE of the hundereds if not thousands of examples how you might get infected, i assumed that you would have figured that out yet.
Anyway i find it shocking that you claim to have a pretty good understanding of your PC, yet we have to explain you everything TWICE and still you do not get it.
And to tell you the truth iam kinda annoyed when i come across people like you, because people like you are always the first to scream fire and murder if a Government, Instituut, Organisation or some other internet policy making company comes up with a new rule or protocol to secure the internet.
Then people scream murder and fire because their privacy and internet freedom is being limited, while those same people do not realize that for a huge part due to their own actions as a individual and as a group of internet users they are directly responsible for more then 60% of all the online damages in terms of dollars.
And thats the RAW truth hence why i know for a fact (Inside news) that for windows 8.1 there will be a update in the near future that will make disabling critical updates IMPOSSIBLE. So yes you still can sort of check and uncheck which updates you do want and which you do not want, however critical security and core updates will get installed regardless if you like it or not, also a system that will force you to use security software (Either supplied by MS or a thirt party) is being developed for windows 8+.
I personally do not know when the laws wil be put into place but in France, Germany and the Netherlands these laws have been accepted and i know for a fact that the EU and the US both working on a much bigger law.
Now if you read back everything i said then you might understand why we all make such a fuzz about the fact you are running your pc in the way you do.
Against the excuse by you that you do not know of any malware that can achieve a bios infection in the way i mentioned or a virus that can survive a low level format does not mean that there is no such virus.
Keep in mind your BIOS has its own memory outside your harddrive, so is your videocard and your CPU cache and firmW memory not to mention that your Harddrive itself has at least 4MB of memory that contain critical firmware and that is not subject to lowlevel format.
Also one of the survival tricks that some virusses have (Even the the less advanced ones) is a injection into your backup system without actually infecting it and a router injection with call back function. So you could get infected litterally before you even type your name into a brand new windows installation.
So you tell me if your actions are as sound as you think they are.
Do not think you will recieve much help in the future here on MT if you carry on with a system like that and with the comments you made.
Anyway if this is not clear to you then i am sure that one of the other members can explain you the things i tried to explain .
Cheers