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Originally Posted by Telecastr
Lesson hopefully learned? Don't hook up a PC that you use for audio to the internet.
Yah... and don't drive over 65 on the freeway...
Two or three times, since I built my first 8 channel hard-drive based system in 1996, I've embarked on this noble quest, even going so far as to build a little 'throwaway' for surfing.
Maybe others have the discipline for this kind of thing but I don't. Now, it should be noted I no longer run take any outside clients (although I used to have a 16 channel project studio) and my old studio was pretty casual, anyhow.
You're absolutely correct, though, that it is the best way to go and I, too, advise it, when possible. But have you tried to run and maintain a machine that's
not online, these days?
I've had either a DSL or cable always-on since 2000, I don't run background anti-virus programs or anti-adware programs (although I do scan somewhat frequently using the excellent Trend Micro Housecall free online virus scan and occasionally use Spybot in non-resident mode (and used it to modify some settins in IE to make it a tad less susceptible to intrusionware). And, yeah, after using Firefox and Mozilla for about a year I went back to IE. But I regularly use all three, since I need to check my dayjob work as a web/database guy. IE is my fave, all round, but it is less secure, practically speaking.
Through the exercise of moderate diligence (and perhaps some luck?), I haven't got a virus or worm since 1996, when a driver floppy in a package that had been opened and returned infected my machine with an old fashioned boot sector virus. (Old-fashioned, non-destructive, but virulent... by the time I caught it -- in those days of floppies -- it had infected scores of disks. Happily, I caught it before I got my first CD-burner later that year or I might still have copies of the virus around...