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Post by RogueYoshi on Jan 3, 2006 21:51:43 GMT -5
Today I heard on the radio that firefox is the source of viruses on the computer....I was wondering if anyone else had strange things happen to them when they had it.
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Post by dragonpaw on Jan 3, 2006 21:57:36 GMT -5
Nothing bad's happened to me while using it. Not that I can recall, anyway.
As for it being the source of viruses on the computer, that really doesn't ring true. Especially when one looks at the fact that the majority of internet goers use Internet Explorer rather than Firefox.
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Post by Lazo on Jan 3, 2006 21:59:45 GMT -5
Well... it's a source of viruses on your computer if you go to a shady website that has viruses and click on their banners and download their content...
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Post by Enrique on Jan 3, 2006 22:00:57 GMT -5
I've been using Firefox for quite a while and I've never encountered any viruses spawned from it. Then again, this computer has only been exposed to two viruses in the time it's been running, and they weren't a huge problem; they've just been deleted and it's like nothing even happened to the computer.
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Post by boomiester on Jan 3, 2006 22:04:29 GMT -5
I used Firefox for a while, nothing real strange, just average Microsoft quirks like with any web browser. I switched to Netscape as a web browser though, I like it a lot better.
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Post by Tempest on Jan 3, 2006 22:09:30 GMT -5
Really? Netscape? I've been using Firefox for about over a year now, and I really haven't met with any problems at all. I really love this browser, it's so convenient and awesome. I would be so mad if it gave me viruses.. lmao. MY LIFE WOULD BE A LIE!  |
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Post by red.yoshi on Jan 3, 2006 22:15:50 GMT -5
nope. i aggree with lazo. unless firefox inserts viruses into your computer, its actually suppost to prevent viruses from other websites, and as far as im concerned, thats exactly what its doing Despite the loss of my hand-eye coordination, I'm still pretty talented at painting words onto grains of rice..
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Post by Yoshi Master! on Jan 3, 2006 22:40:10 GMT -5
I dunno. I've had both for a year and nothing has ever happened to any.
I use my virus scan about once a week and I get about 50 reconized objects. Delete them and it's just as fast. My comp never slows or anything weird.
And I have massive picture and music files. I download junk all the time.
IM INVINCIBLE!
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Post by Brute on Jan 3, 2006 23:22:11 GMT -5
I have firefox and nothing out of the ordinary has happened to me. except one time i kept goin to Newgrounds.com and some stupid stuff happened to it. but long ago i stopped going to it cuz i thought it was stupid!
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Post by Yesha on Jan 4, 2006 6:07:41 GMT -5
my brother uses Firefox, and nothing is wrong with his laptop right now, though he had a virus on it last year, but I don't think that's Firefox's fault ;_;
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jan 4, 2006 11:38:26 GMT -5
Heh, there's a reason FireFox has over 129 million downloads since the birth of the very first version of FireFox (Not FireBird, as far as I know, it never counted FireBird). Trust, reliability, ease of use, compact and completely extendible. I wouldn't bother listening to Radio DJ's, they tend to know jack. Just take a look at Chris Moyles(BBC Radio 1 DJ). His show is filled with what is almost all, none funny useless garb. The only time where I've seen a radio DJ actually sound as though he knows what he's talking about is during Steve Gibson's Shows. (Can be downloaded as a podcast using iTunes, or directly off his site, grc.com . If you're after trustworty and reliable information, he provides it. As far as I go with FireFox and it apparently being the source of viruses, Not a sausage. I've been firewall less almost all the time during the last year, and my main box has never really caught anything bar 1 virus that got in by an open port that my system's services were using, and that was one that messed with nVidia firmware :S. |
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Post by sui on Jan 4, 2006 12:12:41 GMT -5
I have been using Firefox since its release, and I haven't encountered any kind of virus yet - and I don't have any firewall / anti-virus / anti-spyware application (well, except MS anti-spyware beta, but that's rather a system checker than a 'real' anti-spyware thingthang, I guess D: ), so FF is really reliable.
Of course, when I had been using IE... ah, I don't want to remember. MEMORIES, AWAY. NOW.
That time I had awesome "see a new spyware in every week!" experiences. :-)
(And that was very dangerous to visit rom sites under IE. Believe me, lmao... xD)
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