Ever got a virus on your computer?

[Samantha]

Nah I haven't had one really, well a small one on my mums once but I can't remember how that happened. My sister had a pretty bad one in 2009 though.

[Aaron]

I have yeah, but haven't had one for years.

[Chris]

I cant remember the last time I had one tbh! My brother had one a while back though, wrecked his pc lol.

[buttons]

idk i prob have one

[JerseySafety]

yes once, now I'm smarter tho. anti virus ftw

[Amberr]

yeah but it wasn't my fault. I leant my laptop to my mum for 5 minutes and she managed to put a virus on my computer which wiped my whole hard drive and cost £150 to recover.

[David]

last one i had was years ago, just have to be smart about what you download.

[peteyt]

I have had virus' on my windows computers, almost 1 every months lol! However i've moved to my macbook and macs are "immune" to virus' so no is the awnser

Sadly even Mac's aren't unbreakable they just have less viruses than windows- the virus developers see more money to be made in Windows but Mac's still get viruses and people who think that is impossible are probably more likely to fall for a virus than those who know the full risks.

I've had viruses before. We have always had a family computer but I have had my own for years and on my occasions I have had to fix the family computer from others messing with it e.g. clicking on pop-ups especially ones that pretend to find viruses - usually these security programs actually install viruses themselves and then charge you for their removal.

My best advice is to use trusted sources - if your going to be naughty and download illegally trusted sites with comments. Also remember to avoid opening links and attachments from unknown sources - if you receive a link that's been shortened e.g. on Twitter the link it points to if you don't know the person sending it is usually to a dodgy site.

Also I never click on links from banks - I often get fake emails from supposedly my bank - it will have the right link wrote on it but that is actually just the text e.g. you can have click here and a link you can also have www.bank.com like the click here text with another link really coded into it - usually hovering over the link on some browsers will show the true link at the bottom. However if an email seems real and your told to login with a link ignore the link and just login the normal way you do that way knowing your going to a trusted site.

Oh and if your signing up to new sites your unsure of use a password that if the site's owner managed to get hold of, he couldn't do any damage. Years ago I signed up to something and they actually stole the password and tried to use it but luckily I was able to beat them.

I'd love someone to actually create like a sandbox program online for running links virtually via a browser without any software - would be handy when checking dodgy looking links if your unsure of them.

[Qzaki]

Virus? Psshhht those are the things of windows users!

But in all seriousness the last time I had one was about 2006.

[Seikou]

yep, i seem to get a virus on every computer i own lmao