Safe to Watch Videos Online??

[doubledee]

How many times are you going to ignore the last line of that post? Use the last link provided..

Say what you mean!

You just yelled at me to read the 1st link, and now you are yelling at me to read the last link?!

You just said...

As stated in my first post, read the WHAT SECURITY STEPS SHOULD I TAKE? section

Yes, I'll re-read the LAST LINK, but in addition, it would be nice if I could re-read the 1st link that was up earlier this year...

Blah!


Debbie

 

[GGJstudios]

Say what you mean!

You just yelled at me to read the 1st link, and now you are yelling at me to read the last

Not once have I said to "read the 1st link". I said which section to read. That section appears on both the FAQ, which is currently unavailable, and in the last link, on which the FAQ is based, as already stated in the post.

Yes, I'll re-read the LAST LINK, but in addition, it would be nice if I could re-read the 1st link that was up earlier this year...

It's basically the same information.

 

[doubledee]

Not once have I said to "read the 1st link". I said which section to read. That section appears on both the FAQ, which is currently unavailable, and in the last link, on which the FAQ is based, as already stated in the post.


It's basically the same information.

I just re-read this page...

Mac Virus/Malware Info


No surprises. I think I am doing everything suggested.


I skimmed Read Mac Security Suggestions compiled by munkery.

I think I do most of that stuff, and know I need to circle back on:

- Key Chains
- Advanced Firewall
- Encrypted Sparse Bundle Disk Images


Sincerely,


Debbie

 

[coldjeanzzz]

Not sure if troll or worst thread I've ever read

 

[AppleDApp]

To the wasteland!!!!!!!!!!

 

[And]

To the wasteland!!!!!!!!!!

I would say there is useful information in this thread.

 

[mossy]

Good idea, but in an ideal world I wouldn't feel guilty knowing I am watching a video on YouTube about Chinese global domination on the same MBP I use to manage my production webserver and database?!

I think you were given more than enough advice on this thread.
I'm getting a sense of a narcissistic personality from you.
You might be on the wrong forum actually.
Best try a 'Computer science' forum.

 

[chown33]

Ok ok I get that, but really the main point I was making (I know, I wasn't clear at all) was for OP to just use a different computer if she's that worried about it.

Other kinds of devices can play videos: tablets. They come in several sizes, at various price points. Quite a range of prices, in fact.

Frankly, if I was as worried about safety as the OP seems to be, I wouldn't even be asking the question "Is it safe?". I'd just buy a separate device for watching videos. I'd also disable the plugins in my browser, because one never knows if an ad or a presentation will contain a video link, and it's possible to accidentally click things.

 

[mossy]

Other kinds of devices can play videos: tablets. They come in several sizes, at various price points. Quite a range of prices, in fact.

Frankly, if I was as worried about safety as the OP seems to be, I wouldn't even be asking the question "Is it safe?". I'd just buy a separate device for watching videos. I'd also disable the plugins in my browser, because one never knows if an ad or a presentation will contain a video link, and it's possible to accidentally click things.

Time for a tin-foil hat i'd say.

 

[doubledee]

I think you were given more than enough advice on this thread.
I'm getting a sense of a narcissistic personality from you.
You might be on the wrong forum actually.
Best try a 'Computer science' forum.

No, just giving you something to whine about...

 

[westrock2000]

OP, here is something you can do that creates a very high level of safety (nothing is perfect).

Download a virtual machine program. My favorite is VirtualBox by Oracle. Create a partition in it and install whatever OS you want

I use Linux because it's very unlikely to have a virus execute on it and it's free and lightweight...in particular I use Mint Linux.

Then anytime you want to do something questionable, fire up the VM and open Firefox in Linux and surf to your hearts content. I download a lot of video game and anime music scores because you just can't buy them legally in America or any country really. As a result I have to interact with a lot of file sharing sites which I ABSOLUTELY do not trust. But this allows me to go to the sight, download the zip or rar'ed file, and uncompress it all while in Linux. Then dump the MP3's back to a shared folder between the host and guest OS. I can open the MP3's with an audio specific program and do what I need to do with them.

And sites like Youtube still play video fine on the VM. I haven't really tried video sites though.

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Needing help with security

Running VM's is actually a really good way to keep things in a protected sandbox, while not having a bunch of extra computers lying around.

You can also have multiple VM "files" (which is like a whole harddrive being wrapped inside a single file) each with their own OS if you want to have ones for different tasks.