Computer Virus

OLD_Jammer · Post by **OLD_Jammer** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:52 am

Free is just that.... free

You get what you pay for.

Don't expect great protection from free anti-virus/spyware programs.

TlathamXmahtalT · Post by **TlathamXmahtalT** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:09 pm

Oh, and guys, everything acts like it's back to normal. I did a full Malwarebytes scan, and it didn't finish though. I turned on the PC the next day, and everything was back to normal. It might work on it while it's scanning.

That's enough evidence for me...

Roadknight · Post by **Roadknight** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:11 pm

TlathamXmahtalT wrote:Oh, and guys, everything acts like it's back to normal. I did a full Malwarebytes scan, and it didn't finish though. I turned on the PC the next day, and everything was back to normal. It might work on it while it's scanning.

That's enough evidence for me...

That's good news.

You should ask your dad to get himself a laptop instead of using your comp for... You know what.

TlathamXmahtalT · Post by **TlathamXmahtalT** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:15 pm

Roadknight wrote:
TlathamXmahtalT wrote:Oh, and guys, everything acts like it's back to normal. I did a full Malwarebytes scan, and it didn't finish though. I turned on the PC the next day, and everything was back to normal. It might work on it while it's scanning.

That's enough evidence for me...

That's good news. You should ask your dad to get himself a laptop instead of using your comp for... You know what.

LOL! Good laugh...

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:23 pm

TlathamXmahtalT wrote:Oh, and guys, everything acts like it's back to normal. I did a full Malwarebytes scan, and it didn't finish though. I turned on the PC the next day, and everything was back to normal. It might work on it while it's scanning.

That's enough evidence for me...

You should do scans with everything we mentioned, especially with Conficker being unleashed tomorrow. Most virus scanners have a definition for it, but it's hiding from many scanners successfully. Millions of computers are part of the botnet and don't even know it.

Be sure to give Avira a try, I can almost guarantee results from it

TlathamXmahtalT · Post by **TlathamXmahtalT** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:36 pm

I heard about Conficker at school today.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:52 pm

I find it neat that after you get infected by conficker, it actually PATCHES the windows vulnerability so that other viruses can use the same exploit and take control.

I honestly think conficker was released by M$ just to get rid of people that pirate XP and can't get Windows Updates.

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:46 pm

Conficker? i guess im just too lazy to google it.

Paulcurtis2 · Post by **Paulcurtis2** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:37 pm

I thought is was corn-flicker when i first heard it

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:37 pm

lol, it is just another "svchost.exe" virus. epic fail.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:57 pm

be careful googling it, many of the sites actually contain the infection on them lol.

TlathamXmahtalT · Post by **TlathamXmahtalT** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:33 pm

Ugh, my computer got the "Blue Screen of Death" yesterday.

TlathamXmahtalT · Post by **TlathamXmahtalT** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:08 pm

Now my internet connection keeps going out. It's not the rain, because it's sunny...

GAH! I'm almost fed up with this PC.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:38 am

should have finished your scans instead of just stopping when it seemed fine again.

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:31 am

this might be a wee bit late but reformat the HDD and start anew, works everytime

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:37 am

Formating your HDD is a bit overkill, you can 99.999999% of the time just reinstall Windows and cure any virus infection. Just don't rerun the file that had the initial virus

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For that 0.000001% of the time, a low level format is usually required as your boot sector has likely been infected. The standard Format C: won't even solve that one

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All files are left intact on a reinstall, your Registry will be reset however, so most installed programs will be buggered up and require a reinstall, but none of your files will be lost.

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:39 am

yea that too [(-:]

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:41 am

Should have used Avira

, I've now got 10 different people claiming it has saved their systems. 10 out of 10 is a pretty good average I'd say

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OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:51 am

lol, i'm the black sheep, i've got McAfee, full version for free from comcast, no issues here, i've had fun with a few Trojans too, put them in a shredder has an option for 1 pass 3 passes 5 passes and an overkill of 10 passes, never bothered me again lol

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Sun May 17, 2009 11:10 am

Just remember there are two kind of Virus protection programs.

1. Those you swear by.
2. Those you swear at.

Usually they are the same program, just before and after it misses something.