wiped out by virus today

[Derek Ortt]

just had my personal lap top wiped out by a virus today (though after what I was viewing, I probably deserved it, bad Derek)

Now have to redownload some important programs that I lost during the system restore

[kmanWX]

Ah I know that felling as it comes by every 2 months or so...

[Terry]

This may be a dumb question, buy why didn't your virus protection work?

[kmanWX]

This may be a dumb question, buy why didn't your virus protection work?

in reply to terry there are 3 possibe reasons

1) Not everyone has a anti-virus protection system installed...

2)Virus protection systems needs to be contantly updated becouse ofcourse new viruses come out every single day..

3)Some viruses are render undeteched to the Anti-virus software and thoses are the more dangerous ones out there....

[JenBayles]

just had my personal lap top wiped out by a virus today (though after what I was viewing, I probably deserved it, bad Derek)

Instant karma my friend!

[kmanWX]

As I recalll I had a total of four virus that were render undetected. I had this twisted feeling it had a virus simplely due to the very funny behavior of the computer with pop up windows of stuff ads. Well basicly tons of smut.

So what I did what I want to ctrl alt delete and look for any unexpected programs running and there will go there were atleast 5 viruses on the computer running with registry hook ups. So what I did was I had to take the virus off the computer manually I had to delete an ample amounts of registry keys generated by one exe file. It took atleast 20-30mins to do it but when done I found out that the machine was runnning way more efficient with way lower RAM usage and more cpu power.

[Derek Ortt]

Norton doesnt work, it said it got rid of the virus, then IE started uncontrollably with pop ups saying my system was infected, even when I didnt start IE. Had to uninstall IE, but when I did, the GD comp would not even start. So I then deleted the entire hard drive and did a system restore, finally got things working, but had to redownload some programs and did get new and better ones (such as netscape instead of that god forsaken IE program that Microsoft works). Should just use my linux laptop that is sitting in my office (though I usually boot up windows and then just run a unix system on it)

[Terry]

Oh, geez, Dereck, what a nightmare. Sometimes I think I should just get a Mac, although I haven't had the type of virus you got.

I'm having much better luck using Mozilla Firefox than IE, BTW. And very little spyware is configured for Firefox at this time.

[Rainband]

The key is to stop going to those sites, from your comment I assume you meant "those sites"

[Derek Ortt]

yes, I need to stop visiting those gentlemen's sites. I know I am not supposed to by Christian law anyways. This is God's way is teaching me a lesson

[Brent]

Go buy some magazines or rent some bad movies instead.

[WXBUFFJIM]

Hopefully that can be resolved.

[rainstorm]

sorry to hear that

[weatherlover427]

Oh, geez, Dereck, what a nightmare. Sometimes I think I should just get a Mac, although I haven't had the type of virus you got.

I'm having much better luck using Mozilla Firefox than IE, BTW. And very little spyware is configured for Firefox at this time.

You can set up Internet Explorer and not get ANY (yes, ZERO) spyware / malware IF you have your settings the right way. Even when viewing "those sites".

But I am not going there...