Is it okay to surf the internet with my powerbook?

I came from windows about 6 months ago and I had 2 seperate computers, one for editing and one for everything else, the reason for that was I didnt want anything messing up my editing setup eg downloading something from the internet that will screw up my settings.........Do any of you that use your mac for editing also use it to surf the internet? Am I to paranoid?

Borja said it "This is not Windows"...
Being a Web designer, I have to test all my work on both Mac and Windoze, of course...so I bought a Dell Inspiron to run in my studio amongst 4 Macs...
Had my first Windows virus within a month...so I can understand why you're paranoid.
With your Mac:
Surf, Edit, Mix, Rip Burn, surf some more...all to your heart's content.
I have been running Pro Tools, DigiPerf, FCE, SountrackPro, Studio8, Creative Suite, Mail, etc... all while connected to the 'net for years...
I haven't had a Mac virus since OS6...and I'm not sure if the problem I had back then was even a virus...
PB G4 17", G3 Pismo, G3 Yosemite Mac OS X (10.4.3) multiple FW-800 HDs, .Mac account, iSight, etc...

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PPP adapter Brownwolf:
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 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 92.98.42.65
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
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 Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
 Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
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 IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:5c62:2a41:c:35a2:8753:8832:f494
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 IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:5661:4cc9:c:35a2:8753:8832:f494
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Gerard.
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brownwolf66 wrote:
No,I have a desk top and a laptop and I cannot access 192.168.1.1 on either of them.In my OP,I have used the Command Prompt dialogue on both computers to ping 192.168.1.1 and I have attached the results.This is what I got:
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Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
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Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
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 Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
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 Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
The results I obtained using ipconfig in the command prompt have already been mentioned in my OP.
I do not know if the above result is what it is supposed to be but I still cannot access my router's home page.How do I verify if there is a proxy server and if there is one,how do I disable it in my browsers?This problem occured suddenly as a few months earlier all was well.It's getting rather frustrating.
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