How are people even getting viruses? I've been using Windows to varying degrees since the 1980s, and I've never once in my life gotten a virus. I never used any antivirus software. I let Windows do whatever it does by default, but it never flags anything. Are people picking up viruses from pirated games or something?
"I've never once in my life gotten a virus. I never used any antivirus software."
This is like saying your blood pressure is fine, but you've never had it measured. :) Email and internet are still places of entry to machines. Plenty of 0-Day stuff out there your average person can stumble into.
Even the most paranoid and careful person could be pwnd by a vulnerability in their browser, network stack, GPU driver, or whatever. If you at any point open a network-connected application on a popular OS then you are at risk. It doesn't matter if you "don't click links," or "be careful what you download."
Amen to that. Plus I erred in saying 0-day. Actually, if not using any kind of AV, you're vulnerable to everything ever made if you're trusting your "intuition" alone.
