Ever been attacked by a worm, gotten infested with viruses, opened a trojan horse, or discovered you were watched by dangerous spyware? Post your stories of when you were attacked, how you got the malware, and how you fixed the problem. Well you're at it, post what specific malware you think is the most dangerous.
On my old, bad system I used Norton, which is definitively the most terrible commercial program ever invented. It gave me very tenuous protection and constantly bothered me with annoying messages that couldn't be turned off. And that was before my subscription expired :roll: I finally decided to scrap Norton and go with the free Avira Antivir, which picked up 10 trojans and worms that Norton completely missed. I started using Avira on my main system, now my laptop, and it has caught everything that has come its way so far.
On my old, bad system I used Norton, which is definitively the most terrible commercial program ever invented. It gave me very tenuous protection and constantly bothered me with annoying messages that couldn't be turned off. And that was before my subscription expired :roll: I finally decided to scrap Norton and go with the free Avira Antivir, which picked up 10 trojans and worms that Norton completely missed. I started using Avira on my main system, now my laptop, and it has caught everything that has come its way so far.bman784
Haha! Wow.....are you not seeing this? How would you know if it's getting everything? It could be missing stuff just like norton did.
I tried installing Windows ME once. Turns out that the whole thing is filled with viruses that cause your computer not to run anywhere close to how you would expect it to.
My desktop picture was changed to an ad for anti-spyware and my home page was changed also. Couldn't fix, did reg edits and everything. Eventually formatted drive and re-installed windows.
Or a long time ago a virus was sent out to everyone in my outlook address book. Very embarrasing.
[QUOTE="bman784"]On my old, bad system I used Norton, which is definitively the most terrible commercial program ever invented. It gave me very tenuous protection and constantly bothered me with annoying messages that couldn't be turned off. And that was before my subscription expired :roll: I finally decided to scrap Norton and go with the free Avira Antivir, which picked up 10 trojans and worms that Norton completely missed. I started using Avira on my main system, now my laptop, and it has caught everything that has come its way so far.Rukaru
Haha! Wow.....are you not seeing this? How would you know if it's getting everything? It could be missing stuff just like norton did.
I've cross checked with a couple of other antivirus programs, just for reference, and have used a couple of monitoring programs to check for discrepencies in operating functions. There have been none aside from the ones Avira picked up. I got a little obsessive about the viruses after Norton screwed me up so much:P I seriously doubt that anything has gotten passed it, unless it's incredibly subtle, in which case I won't worry because it doesn't affect me.
i turn on my comp. and as soon as the background comes up it says something about a virus or something, i didnt have time to read it because my comp. shut down. it wouldnt boot all the way up so i had to restore it and download everything over again that was on my comp. before.
I've had hundreds. Mostly all lead to the reformating the the computer. Still, the one that sticks out as just plain annoying was the one that installs itself and claims you have a virus and if you just pay $59.99 you can have the software to remove it! Took me days to remove it, though I didn't have to reformat.
My neighbour got a hijacker, didn't know about it, then his 10 year old son came and opened IE, boom, gay porn site. he was never the same after that.foggy666
[QUOTE="foggy666"]My neighbour got a hijacker, didn't know about it, then his 10 year old son came and opened IE, boom, gay porn site. he was never the same after that.TheLordRagnarok
On my old, bad system I used Norton, which is definitively the most terrible commercial program ever invented. It gave me very tenuous protection and constantly bothered me with annoying messages that couldn't be turned off. And that was before my subscription expired :roll: I finally decided to scrap Norton and go with the free Avira Antivir, which picked up 10 trojans and worms that Norton completely missed. I started using Avira on my main system, now my laptop, and it has caught everything that has come its way so far.bman784
awesome post, i went and dowloaded avira antivir because i dont like norton either, and wouldnt you know it after the scan it picked up 54 trojans and worms.
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