Are anti-virus programs a real necessity?

[eL_BeBe]

Originally Posted by TcM

In Malta an External HDD (USB 2.0, 500GB,7200 RPM) costs Less than 80 EUROS.

And why would your dad kill you? I'm the pc technician at home.. so whatever I do is ok with my dad... and when I told him about partitioning the disk he told me it was a wonderful idea

i know this is a stupid question how much is that in USD lol

[eL_BeBe]

and i forgot to answer the question are AV a real necessity yes it is cause i remember when i used to think my AV slowed down my computer so i unistalled it and come to find out i got r00t by somebody and i was a mp3 XDCC bot lol..they did hook me up wit some good songs so i deleted it and kept the music lmao

[MeTh0Dz]

How would your anti-virus stop someone from rooting you?

[TcM]

Originally Posted by eL_BeBe

i know this is a stupid question how much is that in USD lol

Something like US$ 126

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

How would your anti-virus stop someone from rooting you?

Yeah, good point.

[chili5]

$126 dollars for a USB hard drive isn't bad, i need to get one or at least a USB thumbdrive to store my code and application settings on.

[Aereshaa]

I use backup to my laptop, and to a stack of dvds. It's cheaper than a usb hard drive.

[Xav]

Less convenient, though? Also, you can't just drag/drop files to a DVD - you can only write/rewrite over the whole thing, unless you format them.

[Aereshaa]

DVD is for long term, once a year backup, I use my laptop for short term, where a script in perl handles it.

[chili5]

I make backups of important stuff once every month which I think is fine for now until I can get a hard drive to store the backups on.

but yeah DVD's aren't that efficient, and I also have some file hosting sites that I put some stuff on.

[Aereshaa]

They're not efficient, but they're cheap (at least where I live).