Malware Dev Answers Questions on Reddit

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That's a level of paranoia that doesn't belong to consumer-level computing

At the enterprise level, yes you have to be super cautious because odds are you're worth hacking into to someone. But if youre just some dinky nerd on a computer trying to chat people up on neopets you've got the protection of anonymity and not being worth a damn

Tl;dr Odds are pretty good as long as you're not retarded or running a public server you're not going to run into any attacks/malware

If you did get a virus or whatever it's always 100% your fault