Is yEnc safe?
We don’t see why yEnc is less safe than any other encoding method. Generally, the Usenet is not very safe at all. Anyone can post infected software or just a bomb that will wipe out your hard drive. There are claims that playing music and videos downloaded from the Internet can infect your computer. If you are concerned with your privacy and security of your computer (most people are), there are a few things that you should do: • Do use an anti-virus. There are plenty available. • Do use a firewall. Firewalls protect you from hackers attacks. Norton Personal Firewall is a good choice. We tried two other quite popular firewalls, but they were causing problems. • Do check your computer for spyware regularly and remove it. A good free tool is Ad-Aware (recommended). • Do not start executables and .bat files downloaded from the Usenet unless you are absolutely sure that it is safe.
