l77Il7H Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 well, i downloaded a program or something a long time ago and there was a virus lurking inside. for a few months i didn't know i had that piece of crap, it wreak havoc on all of my .exe. worst of all, it spreaded to my laptop and a few of the people's comp that i came in contact with. who would of thought such a nasty little bugger could do so much damage! well now i have to restore all my comps, taking HOURS. haha, i am freaking paranoid with downloading programs now. i always scan everything before i run it. so you guys ever had a virus before? this is my first and i been using comps for like 4 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpd Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 i've had the klez.h worm, installed itself automatically from an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 All my viruses have been dectected and either deleted or quarantined on the spot. Thank god for Norton AntiVirus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paixao Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 All my viruses have been dectected and either deleted or quarantined on the spot. Thank god for Norton AntiVirus. Same here. Norton is great, it detects "on the fly"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macster Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 i had about 6 in 6 years funny... once a year Most of them was my brother's fault All were destroyed before they could do any damage A firewall and antivirus is your best friend against virus :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted July 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2003 Moved to Internet, Network & Security Radish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 i like viruses as long as they're not executed on my system, and i know where they are and what they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted July 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2003 i had a backdoor.sdbot a month ago i think...it sucked...infected my root folder and norton couldnt access or repair it.. but i reformatted and installed everyhitng...its good now! norton has been good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted July 13, 2003 MVC Share Posted July 13, 2003 i like viruses as long as they're not executed on my system, and i know where they are and what they do. u like viruses :unsure: :no: :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted July 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2003 viruses suck man! :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I once had a really nasty virus on my Amiga - the CCCP virus. It screwed up the bootblock on each floppy and remained resident in memory for 5 mins after the Amiga was turned off. Very nasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranceSphere Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I've had a really nasty one last year (my m8 got it from kazaa). I cant remember what it was called but it infected .exe .doc .jpg .mp3 and loads of others too. :cry: :cry: Ended up formatting it :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted July 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2003 formatting is not always that bad..pc goes much faster...and smooth.. the only trouble is installing and settting everything up again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I know how you feel... I did a scan of my system last night and found 72 infected files.. I still don't know how the hell it happened. First time I have ever been hit by a virus too. 15 mins later I was back up and running thanks to a ghost restore. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 make sure the viruses didn't get into the ghost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted July 13, 2003 Supervisor Share Posted July 13, 2003 I have a sircam and klez.h in my e-mail inbox... A couple MSN worms on my other computer... But I only got infected once from Messenger. Usually, I have a good policy about not downloading any suspicious files. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
developer_ed Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 I havn't had a single virus on my computer's for over 4 years now. My sisters computer is another story :blink: I blame it on Kazaa.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplecookie Veteran Posted July 15, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 15, 2003 We downloaded some weird virus-like thing with Realplayer one time. Everytime this certain shade of purple was used, this kid's face would appear! lol It was the weirdest thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 We downloaded some weird virus-like thing with Realplayer one time. Everytime this certain shade of purple was used, this kid's face would appear! lol It was the weirdest thing! i want! i could have some fun with that!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplecookie Veteran Posted July 15, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 15, 2003 i want! i could have some fun with that!! lol LOL! :D Good luck finding something like that again. It was about 5 years ago. We only discovered it, because my sister was playing with the paint program and painted the background that color and the kid's face popped up! They called me home from a date to fix it!! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lj300 Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 i haven't had a virus in years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacidz Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 I constantly get bombarded by them, via MSN or via email and even mp3 sites. Only reason why i get bombarded from MSN and email, is because other users think they so damn smart and dont need antivirus software. Its taken a long time, but now they have had a brain explosion and realised that its just safe computing to install av software. For themselves and for the benefit of others. But i have never been infected, not once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pixel~ Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Had a virus about a year ago in form of an outlook express exe. Dunno how it got on my desktop, but as curious as i was :huh: I double clicked it only to find that the little bugger extracted loads and loads of spam files into my HD which then just totally maxed out my HD space. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallaughter Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Viruses phear me :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[XS] Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 anti virus software is your best friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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