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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: RV01 on May 29, 2004, 06:23:30 PM
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I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF DOWNLOADING WALLPAPERS AND SCREENSAVERS FROM THE SITE WWW.SCREENSAVERS.COM IS SAFE FOR MY COMPUTER AND FREE FROM VIRUSES. IF ANYBODY HAS ANY SUSPICION ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THIS SITE PLEASE REPORT IT
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I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF DOWNLOADING WALLPAPERS AND SCREENSAVERS FROM THE SITE WWW.SCREENSAVERS.COM IS SAFE FOR MY COMPUTER AND FREE FROM VIRUSES. IF ANYBODY HAS ANY SUSPICION ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THIS SITE PLEASE REPORT IT
No site should ever be truely be considered safe, you have to exercise your own diligence, use the search engines to see what is out there for the site you are considering. Google only returns one entry and that is for the screensavers.com site. But a more detailed search on that results page click on the option Find web pages that contain the term "screensavers.com" returns many, many more.
Anything that you are considering downloading should always be anti-virus scanned. Wallpapers are just images and so far a relativly low risk. Screensavers are small programs and as such could be made to do anything that the author wants so represent a potentially high risk, so more care should be taken.
I personally don't use a screen saver, why would I care what is on the screen when I am not using the computer. I mearly set my power settings to put everything into standby, screen, HDDs and then system after short delays.
P.S.
Large amounts of Capitals are not only harder to read, but considered to be Shouting, but to then make them bold as well is Shouting very Loudly.
David
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RV, wellcome!
As David said, CAPS are against our protocol ;D
I suggest you try www.webshots.com before: more than 2 millions photos to choose. ;)