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Still not using AVs.
Still not catching malware.

best AV is not clicking on boobies at porn and warez sites.

use your brains you won't get infected..

It's also true with RL boobies.

No, something called common sense.

Simply out of their reach.

Well, I have common sense, but my wireless ISP does not. Since I live in an area that didn't have even ADSL access until last year, the only option to have Internet was one wireless ISP. It's not worth much for you to have common sense when the ISP does not.

Their WLAN over PPPoE was configured in a way that if you are a member of a workgroup in Windows XP you could broadcast anything through default broadcast IPs and all members in the workgroup would get the message... or file... or remote registry command... or pretty much anything. Back then Windows Vista haven't even been published yet. So, if you install a fresh copy of Windows and create a Workgroup for your LAN, you would be widely exposed.

Anyway, my ISP's network was so flooded with malware and viruses it was simply incredible how any normal communication even had a chance to compete for bandwidth. And the attacks were planned - first you get a backdoor application that opens needed ports for the rest of the stuff to start pouring in, and then you get the real flood of viruses.

Some time later the owner of another wireless ISP, who at the time didn't yet had my area covered but was a competitor in more populated areas, was busted for hacking into his competitor's (my ISP's) network and infecting it.

Several years passed since then and now I finally have an ADSL connection with a wireless router supplied by my new ISP. I don't have a full access to the router and I don't have a possibility to change it because it's the property of the ISP and that's the only model of the router they are working with. I won't say a brand here, but it's well known that a trained monkey would be able to hack it if you give him a smartphone and enough bananas. The ISP don't care - they are a state owned monopoly.

I have common sense, but I don't believe that people with who I'm forced to deal with to get an Internet connection have it as well.

Serbia (Eastern Europe), but you are close enough

Well. Turning off SSID is kinda advanced wifi defense step.

And yes, my SSID is also off because I manage my home lan. And my neighbors nor anybody walking or driving by don't need to know that I have wifi.

Why should you worry about being a Tinfoiler?

**Adjusts tinfoil pirate hate while the tinfoil sparrow sings a song...a song we all know to well."

I have figured out a very nice method to protect your network on a passive level at least. Basically its called Soft Pirating, Gentle Wavery, or any other savvy name you want to give it.

How it works is creating passwords that are based on using psychology.

For instance a network SSID could be called Danger In Your Mind. After all a hacker needs to first know your network SSID in order to hack correct?

Then associate the rest of your passwords with other forms of psychology such as "still running a keylogger?", "I know that you are sniffing my network, how's it smell?", etc. Most of the time the goal of the hacker is too first locate your passwords and then find other hackers or pirates in your area that will be aligned with the same mentality where they will whisper your passwords around you making you think that you are hearing things but in fact you are hearing the Whistling Wind as pirates call it. The really cool thing is that once the pirate network has found you and begins their sound of enchantment the real pirate spell begins as it.....well I'll let you figure the rest of your own pirate song out so that you will make your new crew sing the song that you like....without their even knowing it before it is too late and the...the song.....and the Moon....all bound in their bones.