August 01, 2010
Can a computer virus passively infect the computer by just being online?
Posted by: kk : Category: Computer Question Answers
Can a computer virus infect my computer just by being online? No downloading or uploading. No file sharing. No instant messaging/chatting. No opening of new browsers or opening email or email contents and such. Just leaving my computer on with my homepage screen and connected to internet.
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August 1st, 2010 at 5:41 am
It’s definitely possible, but very unlikely. Even without your homepage open, you’re always vulnerable to a hacker accessing your computer. However, there would have to be some motive, as its not always simple to do.
August 1st, 2010 at 6:13 am
Yes. Just recently I picked up the virtumonde? trojan without accessing any pages. if you caught that nasty bugger then it took like 20 scans with AVG free edition and Spybot Search & Destroy to take it out
August 1st, 2010 at 7:07 am
yes it can
August 1st, 2010 at 8:01 am
Yes. And no. At some point, something HAD to be done to allow access to your system. Once it’s already ON your system (via a Trojan Horse or some other “insider” method), it’s created what’s known as a backdoor… at that point the program running somewhere out there online DOES have access to your computer because you’re online… but only because of something that was let into your system at some point in the past.
August 1st, 2010 at 8:38 am
Yes, especially if you have not updated windows.
August 1st, 2010 at 8:54 am
It is defintely possible,there is some thing in this world called “exploits”…