dial-up - are you more prone to viruses

[playingball]

A friend who is quite sight challenged is using dial-up and having a problem with anti-virus updates. Are you less prone to saddling yourself with a virus or trojan using dial-up service than if you used high speed.

Thanks

 

[edfair]

No difference provided the usage is the same.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[linney]

What anti-virus software are they using, can it be configured to check for updates automatically?

Most fast connections are "Always On" making the risk higher than "Dial-Up" which is usually manually connected if set up to "Never Dial a connection".

Dial-Up is more susceptible to "Trojan web dialers, which are dialler programs that generally use stealth techniques to get themselves installed on your PC and when they execute they disconnect you from your dial-up ISP and reconnect you via an expensive phone number resulting in a huge phone bill".

http://www.detoxcomic.com/articles/twdialers.html

 

[koresnordic]

Could be more risky, if due to the size of M$ updates, they are not downloaded and applied. Had a few dial-up peeps contact me because they never updated, they said it would take too long to download - esp sp2 !! So they got viruses.



Graham