qbteachmt
Level 15

"I didn't stop my antivirus software and never have"

There is a difference between internet and web. Software with an internal update function is accessing the company servers over your internet connection to get the files and the server (barring huge hacks) are secured. That means they never (or, nearly never) contain virus code.

Getting something from a website means that website could have been hacked and replaced and be waiting for you to download the new, "improved" version, or could be a phony website entirely.

You don't typically worry about server-based updates.

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