Can download a game from yahoo harm our computer?
By hanah87
@hanah87 (1835)
Malaysia
April 30, 2009 8:39am CST
I always and like to download game from Yahoo.I dont know if it can harm or damage my computer or laptop?Do you know about it?
6 responses
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
30 Apr 09
You should make sure the games are virus free. For a better result, you should have anti virus installed on your computer. Be sure to have latest update of the virus definition. But i think a great company like Yahoo has done to scan their files before they post those files for download. But it could be some failure of the human error. So antivirus on our computer is much better. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.
@max1950 (2306)
• United States
30 Apr 09
ive had this same xp for 6 year's have over 400 games from 6 different sites and only had 1 problem so far. i do an express cleanup daily and ccleaner. if a problem arises norton stops me from downloading the game, also if a game takes to long to download i cancell it immediatly before the download finishes. bigfish games, divo, realarcade, harmonic flow have between 200-500 games each with new ones daily, and i have had no problem what so ever with any of these sites. be careful of gamevance, what a pain to get rid of. any of the sites that make you download their homepage, exclude.
@kassdaw (591)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Any thing you download on to your computer could potentially harm your computer by having a virus attached to it. It is hard to say that just because you downloaded it from Yahoo that it wont infect your computer. It very well could. But at the same time you wont know until you computer becomes "ill" with the virus or you have a good anti-virus program that you use and run on your computer at least once a day.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Yahoo is a pretty reliable source, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. However, viruses can attach themselves to even the most reliable things. Just keep your anti-virus software up to date and run scans frequently. You should be fine then.