I am in danger... viruses perhaps? URGENT! - Page 2

Earthdog · 01-06-2004, 09:46 AM

McAffee DOES suck. Norton is HOOAH, heaps better.

There are also several free online scanners for you to use. Trendmicro has a rather good one. I snt a friend to it and it found 581 infected files on his machine....... He did the repairs/quarantines/deletions and still had a few that were stored in system restore and once i got him to shut that down, he reran the scan and it came up clean neat and tidy [img]smile.gif[/img]

wellard · 01-06-2004, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bozos of Bones:
What? No words about the great NOD 32?
In my estimation, that thing is God.

What the hell is it Bozo?

slicer15 · 01-07-2004, 11:09 AM

Nah, McAfee rules! I use it with no problems at all...it saved my ass from viruses loadsa times, and I had a load of trouble from when I used Norton...just depends on your perspective I guess. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Gammit · 01-07-2004, 10:46 PM

PLEASE tell me that you've recently logged on to the net and updated your virus checker. If not, using your virus scanner now would be pointless.

MANY worms send themselves out as e-mail without you doing anything (much less knowing) ala the Melissa worm. If you haven't updated your virus software recenetly, "you" may have sent your friends a virus!

P.S. I learned this the hard way. My friend claimed that she was virus-free because she had a virus-scanner loaded on at all times. Did she ever run it? No. When I did, it found 3 viruses. When I logged onto the net and updated the virus scanner, it found 2,320. Yikes!

[ 01-07-2004, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Gammit ]

Bozos of Bones · 01-08-2004, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wellard:

quote:
Originally posted by Bozos of Bones:
What? No words about the great NOD 32?
In my estimation, that thing is God.

What the hell is it Bozo? [/QUOTE]It's a full service security system featuring virus-scans, worm-scans, optional firewalls, security command and such. For more information go here.

Xen · 01-08-2004, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gammit:
PLEASE tell me that you've recently logged on to the net and updated your virus checker. If not, using your virus scanner now would be pointless.

MANY worms send themselves out as e-mail without you doing anything (much less knowing) ala the Melissa worm. If you haven't updated your virus software recenetly, "you" may have sent your friends a virus!

P.S. I learned this the hard way. My friend claimed that she was virus-free because she had a virus-scanner loaded on at all times. Did she ever run it? No. When I did, it found 3 viruses. When I logged onto the net and updated the virus scanner, it found 2,320. Yikes!

I have Auto-Upade option enabled...

RoSs_bg2_rox · 01-08-2004, 12:06 PM

there was one of these things going around recently I think, let me guess, your using hotmail?

Xen · 01-08-2004, 04:19 PM

You guessed wrong. I use MS Outlook.

RoSs_bg2_rox · 01-08-2004, 04:52 PM

hmmm. May not be the one I was thinking of then.......

01-06-2004, 09:46 AM	#11
Earthdog Emerald Dragon Join Date: May 1, 2001 Location: melbourne victoria australia Age: 58 Posts: 960	McAffee DOES suck. Norton is HOOAH, heaps better. There are also several free online scanners for you to use. Trendmicro has a rather good one. I snt a friend to it and it found 581 infected files on his machine....... He did the repairs/quarantines/deletions and still had a few that were stored in system restore and once i got him to shut that down, he reran the scan and it came up clean neat and tidy [img]smile.gif[/img] __________________ THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!

01-07-2004, 10:46 PM	#14
Gammit Elminster Join Date: October 26, 2001 Location: Sterling Heights, MI, USA Age: 46 Posts: 477	PLEASE tell me that you've recently logged on to the net and updated your virus checker. If not, using your virus scanner now would be pointless. MANY worms send themselves out as e-mail without you doing anything (much less knowing) ala the Melissa worm. If you haven't updated your virus software recenetly, "you" may have sent your friends a virus! P.S. I learned this the hard way. My friend claimed that she was virus-free because she had a virus-scanner loaded on at all times. Did she ever run it? No. When I did, it found 3 viruses. When I logged onto the net and updated the virus scanner, it found 2,320. Yikes! [ 01-07-2004, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Gammit ] __________________ IW resident science and mathematics teacher<br /><br />\"No, no, you\'re not thinking; you\'re just being logical.\"<br />-Niels Bohr

01-08-2004, 12:06 PM	#17
RoSs_bg2_rox Zartan Join Date: May 20, 2003 Location: Near Aberdeen, Scotland Age: 34 Posts: 5,225	there was one of these things going around recently I think, let me guess, your using hotmail? __________________ [img]\"http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/ladyzekke/dragonwater2.gif\" alt=\" - \" />

01-08-2004, 04:52 PM	#19
RoSs_bg2_rox Zartan Join Date: May 20, 2003 Location: Near Aberdeen, Scotland Age: 34 Posts: 5,225	hmmm. May not be the one I was thinking of then....... __________________ [img]\"http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/ladyzekke/dragonwater2.gif\" alt=\" - \" />

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