Reply To: Any worries about viruses or malware? What are “Foreign IP connections”?

Robin wrote:

All I can do is acting prudent to prevent this threat. For this it is necessary not to block out a threat from consciousness by denying it, but taking reasonable means to avoid it.

I expect that’s what anyone would suggest. Prudent and reasonable. What these actually mean in practice depends on your sense of the risk, though, which remains subjective since there doesn’t appear to be data.

In this case, for example, I wouldn’t feel that reinstalling the OS seems reasonable based on just visiting a shady website. I would say changing your Amazon password seems prudent if you tried to log in on the shady site, though.

That said, I just tried going to amazn.com out of curiosity and it only redirected to amazon.com, so I can’t find the content of this shady site to see what it might actually be.

One thing that’s really nice about a frugal system with persistence, by the way, is that you can actually view all the files that have changed since the last save, which is pretty useful for testing things like this.