I have a laptop that i do everything on. Basically use it for anything financial related such as bank accounts, electrum wallet, bitcoin wallet etc. I stream youtube, watch sites etc so far with no issue. My issue though is i like to watch porn. Now i do watch porn through those streaming sites like xvideos, porhhub etc which doesn't seem to give me any issues.
The other thing though is i like to download porn from sites online. Reason is because these videos you cannot stream it through pornhub, xvideo etc. The other thing is i like to click on preview images of porn pictures. I always done this without any issue. But i was told that clicking on links are not really safe since a porn link for an image could cause a virus.
Basically the big main sites. I was told in those forums... links for porns and images are usually very safe as long as the posters who posted it are long time posters and have a lot of likes by other members. I believe they said a lot of these links are looked at by the site in case there is a virus, it would get deleted. Of course someone who posted the video that is safe could later edit it etc.
I assume anyone here that has a laptop that does that bitcoin and financial information... you have separate computer for that... and one for your porn and other stuff? By other stuff that means like downloading torrents etc. I read someone mentioned that he downloaded some video game that was pirated and all his bitcoins got lost because of that. That the uploader put a trojan/virus etc. I don't download any torrents at all. I do however like to download porn videos from depositfiles, rapidshare etc. I also do make sure those posters are long time posters. But i also like to download certain videos in another forums where even though they maybe long term posters, i dont know if videos are safe or not. I have so far when downloaded those videos... haven't had an issue in a while with my laptop due to this. Such that i use it for banking with no issue.
But i have not done this with a bitcoin wallet on my computer. Does anyone here have advice on this? I'm sure many of you like to download porn, click on images whether its porn or something else or download torrents etc. Is it always a bad idea if you do this on your laptop where you have bitcoins stored? I read any exe file is very bad. Then again how would i even know a file is exe. Couldnt it be another file but its really exe?
Also if this thread is not put in the right subforum, can it be put in the correct subforum? I believe it does belong on bitcoin discussion though.
Just install a good anti-virus program and check your PC more often.
You can use a virtual machine or a sandboxed browser.Just doenlaod and install Sandboxie.
Bitcoin related malware can be really nasty.