do you think you can get a virus by simply clicking a link?

Question

if running a firewall and have good virus protection,if your running a program that acts as a server like p2p,etc. you are opening your ports,if you download something ,anything it is a chance to be infected,but not by just clicking a link

like he said you might get malware,adware a tracking cookie but not a virus

Answer 1

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Answer 2

yes u can get a virus by clicking a link cuz when u do click a link it downloads the site info and sometimes some mess up person puts virus in those HTML and other type of sites well a firewall can't help u if u let the hackers in like p2p like limewire jsut use the settings so other ppl can't download from u and when ur download u still get get a virus it just depends on how ur virus protection can detected it and ask u if u want it to repair and/or deleted b4 its too late

Answer 3

Viruses can enter ur machine by simply clinking on Link. Bcoz virus r if many kinds and new viruses are developed daily. Even best protection can detect them only if it has information what the virus do so be carefull before opening any page and when the browsers asks for updates don't download them automatically unless u are sure that they are virus and spyware free. Take Care.

Answer 4

You can only get a virus when you OPEN a file. Someone can send a virus through an email, but only when you actually OPEN it from Outlook since its already downloaded into your hard drive. You can get a virus in your computer if you INSTALL the program you just downloaded because you are extracting the files from the exe program to your hard drive.

Whenever you are actually moving files into your computer, then thats the only way you can get a virus or a trojan.

Answer 5

You would more likely cop a malware application disguised as a plug in for your browser is a popular one. You got that sort? 2 Free important anti malware programs in the links below. Good luck!

Answer 6

Yes, you can get a virus just by clicking a link. A link could auto download an activeX control which can be used for remote access or installinga virus. AS for peer to peer...if your virus scanning application doesnt scan peer to peer connections and IMs, you should try avast, as it does all these things in real time.

http://www.avast.com

Answer 7

of direction! Thats why you like antivirus or risk-free surfing some thing like that. yet virus would not look whilst clicking a information superhighway handle. information superhighway handle has in basic terms a rip-off not virus. rip-off is nearly a google hammer that freaks you out. Virus in basic terms look once you acquire some thing or installation.

Answer 8

There has been known security flaws on WMF, JPEG handlers in GDI of windows which let to run arbitrary code on target computer (and get root) once such a graphics file is forged with the code as a buffer overflow. So when you visit a site with a such JPEG you get breached! but al those vulnerabilities get fixed with hotfixes if you have windows update running constantly.

Loren Soth

Answer 9

if u have a good anti virus so the chance for the virus decreases to 10% coz no anti virus can protect u a 100%

Answer 10

yes