The your to careful about your comp flame [M?]

[Pascal]

Would very few if anyone bother to hack a average person with little to no important information? No.

Would a real hacker, no, but some wanna-be yes. I get attempts on almost a daily bases not including port scans.

Should you be paranoid? No.

You shouldn't be paranoid, but you should be aware of it.

Can you get viruses and trojans from surfing the web? Yes.

Can you remove them by scanning your computer once a month? Yes.

You should be doing real time scanning, because from the time of infection to your once a month scan the payload can be dropped. In other words don’t trust these free web based virus scans. You should have an up to date virus scanner installed on your PC.

Will they cause permanent damage to your computer? Some, but 95% of trojans/viruses are usually just adware that slows your computer down and mabye adds popups/porn.

There was ever only a small handful of viruses that would attack the Flash BIOS. All of theses Virus are detected now, plus any PC made in the last 5 years has a backup ROM and a recovery jumper.

 

[Darkdante]

Can you remove them by scanning your computer once a month? Yes.

Um, no

I havent met a virus/spywear scanner yet that can remove everything.

 

[Darkdante]

Can you remove them by scanning your computer once a month? Yes.

Anywayz the reality is that this is currently impossible. It can only remove KNOWN viruses/spywear. If i write code today and release it tommorow it may/may not be in the next viruse update if ever.