"hibernate" or shut down?

[MaSonZ]

im a fan of "hibernate" when i wont be on my computer for long stretches. its easier to resume my session when i wish to do so. but say im on a website looking at / for something and (god forbid) it has a virus. something comes up and im gonna be gone for say 2 hours. if i put my computer in "hibernate" mode is as likely to get a virus as if it was on, or is at good as shutting it down?

im speaking in this instance (that im on a website and it has a virus lurking....)and in general.

 

[Spikes]

I'd venture to say normally if the virus doesn't hit your computer right away, it won't, however I always shut my comps down for the night, etc when I'm leaving to go somewhere for a few hours. I just believe it would be better for the system in general.

[gyrene81]

you're asking for all manner of silliness using hibernate or suspend on a computer...it's somewhat useful for a laptop in a business environment but never ever on a desktop and rarely on a home use laptop...

[MaSonZ]

you're asking for all manner of silliness using hibernate or suspend on a computer...it's somewhat useful for a laptop in a business environment but never ever on a desktop and rarely on a home use laptop...

thank you much sir. 

[DREDIOCK]

Personal preference really. Arguments can be made for each point of view

I only rarely shut mine down cept to clean it unless nobody is going to be using it for a day or more. I use "my" sleep time to run all my AV scans and updates.
That way I can review everything the next morning when Im drinking my coffee.

[MaSonZ]

Personal preference really. Arguments can be made for each point of view

I only rarely shut mine down cept to clean it unless nobody is going to be using it for a day or more. I use "my" sleep time to run all my AV scans and updates.
That way I can review everything the next morning when Im drinking my coffee.

makes sense. i saw in a thread on here that if your computer is hooked up to a LAN it is as vulnerable as the other computers on the LAN. I don't know how true that is, but one more reason why i asked.

[gyrene81]

Personal preference really. Arguments can be made for each point of view

I only rarely shut mine down cept to clean it unless nobody is going to be using it for a day or more. I use "my" sleep time to run all my AV scans and updates.
That way I can review everything the next morning when Im drinking my coffee.

in a way yes...regarding desktops, if the microsoft power management system wasn't so mangled it wouldn't be so bad to use hibernate/suspend or sleep mode...as it is, people tend to leave applications running when they put the system into suspend mode and things get messy from there...native windows processes don't do too bad with sleep mode though.

putting a laptop in hibernate/suspend or sleep mode is asking for a crashed hard drive...since the heads don't park...i see it every single day and the first question is "why did that happen?"...it's like resting a record player needle on top of a record, bump it and you have a nice scratch...stratch a disk platter and you have a bad drive...that's not to say it couldn't happen even with the system powered down but, the chances are greatly increased when you don't power the system down...and there is also the open applications issue that springs up after prolonged periods of suspend and sleep mode, some programs just can't take being stuck in memory for prolonged periods.

once ssd drives get lower in cost and become more mainstream, drive crashes from shock will be few and far between...until then, even with manufacturer "shock prevention" programs, don't bump it.


the only system i let run 24/7 is my fedora linux box, and even that gets rebooted every week to clear the memory buffer and cycle the junk logs...windows systems get shut down and i never use suspend or sleep mode...except when testing with a work system.

[Ghosth]

I almost never shut my systems down unless I'm going to be gone for 2-3 days.

But I am not a big believer in hibernate or sleep modes either.

Hibernate is not enabled, power scheme is always on, only thing that turns off is the Monitor after 15 min.

I don't make a habit of leaving open browser's or similar if I'm going to be gone more than 2 min though.

Bookmark it and close it when your not using it.