Dont you miss those days when the internet was actually safe to go on and surf?

Question

i remember back in the 90s when you could surf the net all day and not come up with any virus or spyware or trojans or whatever new malware some nerd has come up with now. i miss those days.....now i have to scan my comp everytime i go on it, i cant surf the net without being paranoid, and i have to put in long complicated passwords. do MAC computers have better software that will make surfing the net safer? if this continues, then soon the goverment will step in and set laws on what we can and cannot download....

Answer 1

This is not an answer (and what is the question, anyway?) but just my opinion.

I agree with John A, the net was never safe, and it will never be. If a device (not just computer, routers are actually much more functional and easy to break into) is connected to the internet, it can be compromised.

The problem is, nowadays the sheer majority uses microsoft products, and the sheer majority of their products have silly vulnerabilities. So like you say, Mac or Linux provides a much much more safe experience.

It's not only that Mac or Linux is better (and they are). It's a game of numbers. If a cracker tries and finds a way to exploit a win box, he'll have millions of potential victims at hand. If it's a Mac or Linux box, the numbers are much lower.

And most importantly -- as tech advances and net-surfers explode in numbers, "easy victims" are also much easier to find. If people didn't open (click) every attachment they got in their mails, the world would be very different now.

Answer 2

The internet was never actually safe, it is just put into the publics eyes more so today than in the past. It is like when something is too small of a worry, then it's not explioited, but when the issue escalades, now it's time for America to put there ear in.

Answer 3

Yes. All I seem to do nowadays is spend more than half of the time updating my anti-virus software, or scanning the PC for virus. What I do miss are the pre-internet times when my PC was always clean, always ran faster without all these problems.