Comments on: What Kind of Internet User Are You?

By: kooberfacer

kooberfacer — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:50:14 +0000

Meh.Ive been a user for 15 years now and got hit with two viruses.None in the last 10 years.Ive always been in the security conscious crowd.Gotta keep one foot in reality at all times.
If there is one thing i know its human nature.
“Surfing the web is no different from driving around in your car. Sometimes you find youself in strange places where you need to lock the doors and not stop to ask for directions.”-
Good advice for anyone.

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By: DunbarPappy

DunbarPappy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:43:48 +0000

B;
Anyone who follows some of the security websites on a regular basis and IS NOT paranoid just doesn’t get it.
I’ve moved from the 2 hours a day fixing, updating, reading about and backing up a Windows home network, to another world: Linux.
Not entirely carefree, but now I have about 10 hours a week to dedicate to actual creative work on a computer.

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By: sdy

sdy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:02:49 +0000

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By: Ernie Douglas

Ernie Douglas — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:43:39 +0000

I’ m afraid I fit into the category of those “who somewhat understand”. I too have been around abit (TI) Texas Instruments…But I must confess I always felt that security was something that lacking and it’s true meaning to “WEB” or internet was dismissed in favor of “glitz and glammer”. Securing your enviroment should be first and foremost on everyone’s agenda. And this blog(Shameless Plug) is one of the best I’ve participated in…..

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By: Peter McGrath

Peter McGrath — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:01:37 +0000

It’s my experience that there is a sizable group of people who refuse to attempt to understand anything about computers, feeling that they are too complicated. This attitude seems to cut across all ages/generations. I am 61 yrs old, been working with computers since the DOS/BBS days. I still work in IT for a non-profit, so I have to deal with employees and volunteers in a kind way (not often easy). Security is not easy, but I do have everyone more or less trained to call me the instant anything unusual happens. Hopefully. With my small amount of knowledge I am often totally amazed that networks and the internet work at all, not to mention as well as they do. Scary.

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By: Marlene

Marlene — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:41:24 +0000

What happened to the Extra-cautious (paranoiacs)? I am often defined as such, but I have worked with computer for far too long to take security lightly. It is probably the highest priority for me, so much so, I must spend nearly 1/2 my time checking geek blogs and get updates from sources the more knowledgeable IT techs get! I guess that would make me a “Paranoiac!”

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By: Phazeone

Phazeone — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:22:41 +0000

I was directed to your blog by the guys at PaulDotCom.com
You have good content and I look forward to reading future articles.

What kind of Internet user are you?

Everyone should be (or strive to be) confident unless they just crawled out from under a rock and are still delivering letters with a stamp.

Everyone should also be cautious. Surfing the web is no different from driving around in your car. Sometimes you find youself in strange places where you need to lock the doors and not stop to ask for directions.

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By: OS guy

OS guy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:40:01 +0000

I consider myself “wary” (I run nessus on my home LAN occasionally, even though it crashes my Brother networked laser printer and congests the logs on my Linux machines, and every potential flaw it finds is intentional). But I think that the current crop of software that we all use every day makes virtually every category “vulnerable”, like it or not.

When I was a security professional, we used to half-seriously say that “the product of security and utility is a constant”, and that our job was to raise the value of the constant. The problem we all face is that we still want SOME utility out of our systems! For example, cautious people shut off javascript and flash, but did you also shut off loading jpegs and png’s? Based on past exploits, you still could have been hit. Where do you draw the line? Text-only web browsing just isn’t much fun!

The real answer is basically what someone pointed out in an earlier comment, the ultimate expression of the “least-privilege” principle: you just can’t trust a system that you use for fun things with any of your secrets. ASSUME the fun system will be taken over every time you use it. NEVER type a password or credit card number into anything but your production system, and do everything you know how to do to keep that one safe – and NEVER do anything but your business on it. Virtual machines make this pretty easy and very cheap – check out VMWare and Virtualbox, both free.

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By: Jane B

Jane B — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:07:00 +0000

I voted for confident, but only because I am careful when I do surf and use Site Advisor as a guide (guide only). Also, I don’t download anything except what comes from a security neurotic friend who insists I keep my computer safe — as she does hers.

I am not a gamer so that potential threat area is missing.

I have a special on the web e mail for anyone who does a lot of forwarding of ‘stuff’ found on the net.

So I am ‘wary’, too.

And I read this blog regularly for added security and wariness!

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By: Tom Zucker-Scharff (cyberdad)

Tom Zucker-Scharff (cyberdad) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:27:24 +0000

I voted Confident, but as was already said, I would never say “Bring it on”. I work in the Computer security field and have never had an infection on my work computer. But I am very careful….

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