Thats pretty normal when you installed an "All in one" version of windows.. anyway.. playing the game straight from the "Downloads" folder.. thats a worring sign my friend... at least put the damn porn game in another folder.. damn it.. my OSD is make me itch every cell from my body.. why men? why?!
I get you there ... I have "Stuff/Games/renpy/" THEN all my AVNs ... not even connected to the downloads folder ...
Why? people keep telling me things I'm doing are worrying but nobodies bothering to explain why?
not sure this is legit question but here we go.
this is men bantering .. very lightly and polite ... if it was legit i sure hope you grow some skin and/or grow your social skills
because all of them are huge security risk.
Two reasons..first security reasons, let the default name for the user (Admin, Administrator, User) can be use as even a backdoor to your data, the second one is mostly for order.. i mean the "Downloads" folders is royal mess when compressed files are extrated there, not gonna even talk about the indexing from the complete "user" folder. There is a secondary reason, for privacy reasons, i mean, Downloads folder is like your frontyard together with the Desktop folders, if you need to show your PC to someone, you normally dont wanna show them your virtual porn collection. Now if you dont give a fuck, good for you.
The fact that it worries you is what's worrying. Is he hurting someone by doing that? Why don't you just let people do things the way that works for them?
if you see someone doing something really dangerous, expecially if the impression is they don't know exactly the risk involved give a warning is the most natural thing to do, our brain are letterally evolutioned hardwired to share information with people showing ingnorance [there are study with other great ape showing the same exact behaviour]. and it's a good thing. adding an explanation is better, obviously.
Except it's not really dangerous. He playing a game in downloads folder, not russian roulette. In all likelihood what he's doing won't even cause harm to himself.
security risk are risk. so they are dangerous. playing from the download folder isn't a huge risk, but still is a risk, because change done inside the folder are usually not checked for malevolent behaviour. using the admin account for the normal use is a big fucking security risk. the lack of possible body harm don't mean no harm can be done.
People are way too hung up on that. You aren't a fucking target for hackers. Neither is he. Average people like us aren't worth the time or the risk. We don't have enough money to bother with. Or a good enough credit score to make stealing our identity worth it. If we're getting hacked it's not through our personal machines, it's through some database somewhere where they can get enough average persons data all at once to make it worth their time. And the fact that such a remote risk is worrying to you people is actually what's worrying. It's just not significant enough to merit such a reaction.
Right... There are no botnets used for DDoS attacks, there is no crypto-mining malware... Who would ever need small people and their small electronic devices? And infected games and malware links are never spread on this very website, because it "aren't worth the time or the risk"
yeah not like every other app these days farms personal info to "improve customer satisfaction"
a few years ago my boss (i'm a it consultant) organized a meeting about cyber secuirity with a withe hat working for a security firm.
I recall that toward the end of XP's life it was determined that the average of how long unpatched XP could be connected to the internet before being pwned was less than the time it took to DL the relevant hardening updates. Kinda doubt it's gotten any better since.
i think he counted only serious attack able to compromise a system with a security system up to date in place.
