pezus said: "Update Many are saying this is a fake video posted without any Anonymous backing. Currently AnonOps is only refereing #OpMegaupload and not #OpGlobalBlackout." Rogue member?

The entire thing is rogue.  There is no Anonymous as a fully functioning group.  There is just a persona anyone can get behind and do things.  There is a loose affiliation of people behind a certain banner, with similar values.  But the game of Anonymous consists of someone getting upset, throwing up a video, and then seeing if anyone acts.  To totally prevent this from happening would end up meaning the end of any semblance of privacy doing anything over the Internet by average people.

Something like that, or to say that "for the lulz" isn't something to commit one's life to, so they decide to try to jump on various random causes in keeping with their desire to be anonymous.  Beyond that, it is a persona that anyone can get behind.

I'm for them, they want megaupload back.

Their biggest advantage is also their biggest disadvantage. Anonymous isn't a group of people. It's a collective. Meaning that attacks can't be traced back to a single group. This also means that members can go rogue and announce attacks in Anons name even if other members are against. People will blame the Anonymous even though it's the single member's fault. I suspect this is the case here.

Anon stated several times that if they hack the PSN again, they won't compromise gameplay and they stated they will never hack Facebook or Twitter because they communicate over it. These are members going nuts over their ego after the successful hack yesterday, I wouldn't give a damn about it.

I bet they can't take down xbl. If they think that after pan they haven't tripled checked there own service at Microsoft then anon are very boystrous. I have full confident in the service I pay for. Its not been hacked before and anon won't get through in the next few days. Let them come.

do you really think just because you pay for something its perfectly safe.  Everything has holes in security.  Im not saying it will be easy by any means. If anon is as good as they think they are than i bet they can get into it if they really wanted too.  The only thing is that now that there are reports that they will take down the servers, microsoft will be paying more attention to them and the same with sony too.  Sony definitely won't be making the same mistakes again.

I know that's why I put the "XD" and "(jk)" :)

@ pezus. If you get microsofts own security program for windows its brilliant. I don't bother with all these 3rd party virus protection programs etc. I use microsofts own from their website. First thing I do whenever I buy a new windows. As I've never had a problem I disagree. I think they are brilliant with security.

If apple had any marketshare people might bother to write viruses for IOS. But why would they when it will affect only 6% of the computer using population? What's really funny is google with android have an even smaller percentage of users than IOS. Yet have the most unstable operating system out and through their phones is already having virus issues. Id hate to think how bad the state of android would be if it got to 1.4 billion copies worldwide.
It would be unusable.

I don't feel like it's a serious problem, for me at least... I run both AVG Free and SuperAntiSpyware... AVG is on a schedule daily but never finds anything, and SuperAntiSpyware I run whenever I remember. It usually picks up stuff AVG missed. I had forgotten to run it for over a month and when I ran it again, I only had 8 tracking cookies... Nothing else. And those were from the big sites that you typically see doing that kind of thing.

I'm kind of a paranoid internet user though. I use Firefox with Adblock Plus, NoScript, and Ghostery. That blocks pretty much every single ad on the internet, except any that I allow to get through. And when I check emails, if I don't know the sender and I'm not expecting a message from a new person, it gets deleted. By doing this, I've never had a trojan or any serious virus problem on Windows. I did have issues with Vista, but that was more of a Vista issue.

Also, I like that you mentioned the marketshare. While Apple's products may actually be more secure than Windows, they also face a lot less of a problem with viruses. That makes a huge difference. Just look at Linux; a lot of Linux users love to brag that they don't need antivirus software because Linux has no viruses. And that's pretty much true. Why write a virus for such a small part of the market? Now, Apple has a larger share than Linux does, but it's still very small when compared to Windows.

It seems he's combining the amount of PC/Mac users with phone users.  For phones, I believe Android now has the largest marketshare, while Windows has one of the smallest and iOS is somewhere in the middle.  Of course, for computers it's the opposite (Android representing Linux). 

@ insomniac17

You know, it's not really good to have two anti-virus programs running at the same time.  They can cause problems if they conflict with each other.