We all know that connecting a computer to the internet without protection opens it up to attacks in a manner of seconds. That's been my experience with cable and DSL connections. Are cell networks safer? Are there sniffers and bots on cellular networks that are waiting for a windows PC to connect so it can infect it like over a traditional connection?
The advantage to a cable modem is that NAT provides some measure of a firewall, and the advantage of a cell network is that there may not me Windows bots there. Is any one safer than the other?
I ask because I have to download a virus program for my new Win8 PC, but I have no known safe computer from which to download the file. Any thoughts are appreciated!