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[General BlackDragon]

Cheezypuff, I've been using AVG for years.

it didnt make my computer immune to all viruses.

[squirrelof09]

It may look at the system date, but if I was the programmer I'd make it look at the date on a dedicated server somewhere else.  So that even if someone changed their system date to Jan 1, it would still trigger.

But that's just me.

VSMIT.

It would flood the heck out of the server, lol and i could just unplug the internet

[cheesepuffly]

Cheezypuff, I've been using AVG for years.

it didnt make my computer immune to all viruses.

Well lets put it this way, i have not run into any viruses AVG cannot handle.

I may get one  once every few months. Usually AVG can handle it.

[CivBase]

Well, I'm running three scans:

Symantec W32.Downadup Removal Tool 1.0.7
Microsoft Windows MSRT
f-downadup

I'm going to have to sleep before they are done, so does anyone know if there is anything I have to manually do after these are finished, or should they automatically do it for me?

[cheesepuffly]

I dont use them so i could not say


Lets just put it this way, the most easy way to combat this is to just not turn your computer on tommorow

[CivBase]

But tomorrow's an early out at my school, and I have an English report I have to type up...

Two of the scans finished with no problems... so I may be clean...

[cheesepuffly]

You probably are, do not worry.

[Commando]

Last week, I ran into something neither AVG, Norton Systematic, Spybot Search and Destroy, nor Adaware SE could detect.  The malware slowed the pc to a crawl and spammed the user with IE popups.  I literally just said F**k it then reinstalled the OS.  There are things that AVG won't detect.  Heck, AVG was installed before the time of infection so not only did AVG fail to prevent it, it failed to catch it too.

[cheesepuffly]

...

All im saying is, what i run into, AVG can handle ok?

Gah what do you have against it?

[TheJamsh]

You realise that youre all boasting about having no viruses on youre system, However the truth of the matter is, there are no viruses on youre system THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF, or youre antivirus program is aware of.

Ive got Kaspersky, so i should be a'ok.

[AHadley]

OT: Anybody been hit by the MSN hi-5 virus yet? I got it thanks to my brother

[TheJamsh]

Whats it do?

I managed to stop a virus i caught of MSN by going into taskmanager and finding the process using up all my CPU time. that was the only way to delete the damn .dll as well.

[AHadley]

I don't know what it does, I got rid of it, but I know how you get it.

Once a computer becomes infected, MSN sends out messages to everybody who is listed on that PC saying

lol, is this picture you? http://www.hi-5.com/*********************

The link leads to a download page which saves a file called

picture.jpg.exe

to your hard drive. When a user double-clicks on it, a message box opens saying 'Loading images...' whilst it installs the virus. It finishes, the message says 'Load failed', and the program closes itself. The computer is infected and the process begins over again.

I'm amazed people fall for it, it's so obvious, but it's spreading around the internet like wildfire.

[sabrebattletank]

The tough part is that you didn't actually see if it was a picture of you.

[Nielk1]

When I am bored, I manually audit my registry.

I KNOW I have no viruses I do not know about.
I have some tracking cookies.
I have some false positives in a Ducati game.
I have a Virus in a file I need the file for and I can bypass the virus.
And I have tracking cookies (who doesn't).

I don't scan my PC often because I use common sense and have not needed to.
The only viruses I get are ones that sneak in from my brother's viral jungle PC and I watch that well.

I check things in a VM if I am suspicious, where I can monitor every little change that occurs.