Well it turns out the site gave me a virus, according to my virus scanner. A "PAK Generic.001", whaterver the hell that is....It was under my "threats stopped" section but I;m worried.
Well it turns out the site gave me a virus, according to my virus scanner. A "PAK Generic.001", whaterver the hell that is....It was under my "threats stopped" section but I;m worried.
chaz53132
Dude ... don't ever download games, form such sites. Most of them are filled with virus and ad applications. Use Steam.
Well it turns out the site gave me a virus, according to my virus scanner. A "PAK Generic.001", whaterver the hell that is....It was under my "threats stopped" section but I;m worried.
Dude ... don't ever download games, form such sites. Most of them are filled with virus and ad applications. Use Steam. Well I use Direct2Drive which is safe but it doesn't have demos. The demo I downloaded was Risk which is available on Direct2Drive and its made by iWin games. I figured, I'll go to the game makers website to see if there is a demo and there was.....so far I havn't noticed any changes in my computer so I think I'm fine. I deleted the currupt files and Trend Micro says it stopped the virus threat.
The virus threat wasn't probably much of a threat at all. Your antivirus software did it's job, but if you had gotten adware or spyware it would have been a whole different story.
Lesson of the day: the internet can be a shady, dangerous place. I once had a trojan disguised as an anti-spyware program on a my internet computer. Luckily I never remembered installing it so I was instantly suspicious, and a quick search on the web confirmed my suspicion. It was a female canine to remove. When it comes to digital distribution services, trust only Steam, Impulse and Direct2Drive. Be wary of everything else.
Log in to comment