Leaving your browser on or yourself logged into a website can allow bugs onto your computer???

[Jeanclaude]

I was reading the other day that the best way to stop attacks on your computer is to make sure your browsers are off and you are not logged into any sites.
Does this not sound a little "Matrixesqe" to you?
Apparently there are all kinds of bad things waiting to come out of your computer but when you log out it effectively shuts the "wormhole" if you will?
Does this all sound a little far fetched and maybe scaremongering or is there any truth in this?
How does logging into a site make you more vunerable and then how does logging out make you more safer?

[murraymints]

Better safe than sorry..there are some techno wunderkinder out there....

[boxtops]

I've never heard this before - we leave our computer on all day at the weekends (or today, say, when I'm working from home). In the office, all we have to do if we leave our desks is lock our computers - not to prevent bugs, but to prevent other people nosing at our work.

[Jeanclaude]

Murraymints but does a "technowonderkid" need a "door" open?
From my knowledge these wonderkids can make doors and even control your computer if they really want to.
I think that maybe it's the lowerlevel fraudsters that harvest details but im not sure

[murraymints]

don't know enough techno stuff to make a guess JC... if someone wants something bad enough I suppose there is a way if you know how...

[rojash]

Not to put to fine a point on it, it's total bollux.