Remember when we all suddenly needed personal firewalls after that one virus that kept shutting down the PC with 60 seconds notice.
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pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 months agoYou never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.
Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
ExLisper@linux.community 10 months ago
Now you have catphishing, ransomwere, lot’s of different types of scammers and your credit cards can be stolen from some random e-commerce site. You also need to know what you’re doing.