Virus

madaff · #1 07-02-2003, 10:41 AM

Be carefull guy's someone out there is passing on the Trojan virus without even knowing it. It corrupted 40% on my Pc and have lost hundreds of files. Even lost very exspensive programs.

#2 07-02-2003, 10:45 AM

Damn madaff
that sucks some serious arse.

What programs have you lost, as i have many(all) of man backed up on disk, so if you need some replaced, i may be able to help!!!

Dave

torvic · #3 07-02-2003, 10:49 AM

Copped a worm by the name of yaha.k a few months ago. Corrupted some very important windows files and NAV files. Only way to fix it was to delete all of them. Until now xp is out of action...now I'm running a dual OS win2k...not cool

If you have any problems with your antivirus itself being infected, check out Trend's online virus scan. Do a google for 'online virus scan' and it should be the first result. That thing saved our comp while norton was down...

madaff · #4 07-02-2003, 11:01 AM

Thanks guy's but I spent a few hundred bucks on Norton systemworks and has corrected all problems 361 of them in fact. It's all ok now.

I lost Microsoft Publisher, Word, Excell, Office 2000 and a few other piles of snot.

torvic · #5 07-02-2003, 11:03 AM

Yea I have norton system works. Pretty reliable except when the actual antivirus is infected!

Couldnt believe it...Oh well.

Bear · #6 08-02-2003, 05:10 AM

Hi all,
Sorry to hear about that Madaff.

If I were you guys I'd be looking at AVG from www.grisoft.com

It's free and very good. I've had trouble with Nortons and the other popular ones, but nothing since changing to AVG.

HTH.

LakeConjolaFish · #7 08-02-2003, 05:17 AM

I don't like Norton because it is such a system hog.......I have been using Grisofts AVG like Bear suggested its a great program.
Team it with a free version of zone alarm pro and your doubly protected and also gets rid of annoying pop up adds and web page hijacking.

Tambo · #8 08-02-2003, 07:56 AM

Everyone should run both an anti-virus program and a personal firewall.
I'd choose Trend PC-Cillin over NAV and Kerio Personal Firewall over Zone Alarm.

I had Norton Anti-Virus fail 3 times in a row on office computers even though it was "up to date" with the virus definitions. Since changing to Trend haven't had 1 infection.

Zone Alarm or Kerio is a personal choice, both do the job.

madaff · #9 08-02-2003, 08:49 AM

I downloaded AVG, not a bad system

I fornd Trojon worm and Bugbear worm. Now bug free.

Thanks guy's that was great.

Bear · #10 08-02-2003, 08:57 AM

Glad it helped Madaff, it was a real bummer when I found what was getting past Nortons.

Scary stuff.