Virus Discussion

Hmm. Well I jsut had over 2347 files infected in my computer with trojans aha. Heres the story.

After i quit playing runescape I started playing Diablo II. So I went to go find some hacks and stuff for some. And I found 1 that was to good to be true. But even if it was a virus. I was very sure that my virus scanner could handle it. So I downloaded it. And what do you know. It was hidden very very well. So. I spent about a week deleteing all the files. They were spreaded out from my WinRAR files all the way to my Windows files. It was madness. Finaly i deleted all the bad files. Everyone of them that you clicked on, it would open up a little icon on my toolbar. Called xpupdate. They named it that so you would think it wasn't a virus and make you think it was more like a small update. WHen you hover'd your mouse over it it would say "Your computer is infected" to make you think it was your virus scanner telling you that. I figured out that it was a few trojans in my pc. (Most virus's are) and it was trying to send out my credit card and stuff. So i said thats gotta go. And it took me a whole week to get everyone of them little backdoor files out. After I deleted the files my free space jumped from 69% all the way to 83%.


This thread it to explain about all your previous virus's and what the've did to your pc.

 

Did you scan before you ran it? lol

 

that sucks, i hate getting viruses from hacks and stuff

 

Lol. You got poonded. Always use virustotal.com before doing ANYTHING

 

I know you have a pc because macs would never have this problem, when you buy your next os system think about buying a mac. No virues or spyware, (for the people that will post saying there is they are wrong there is not one that can get into a mac.)

 

lemme correct this: there is not one that want to get into a mac

 

all u got was spyware i think. i had this sort of problem before where a couple try icons would pop up saying i had a virus and were telling me to pay for there program to delete it. ye its hell trying to get rid of them lol

 

Use Linux , no h4xx0rs or virii.

 

yea linux owns and its free

 

Meh. I had a trojan and it made me lose all my files. :| Deleted windows ftw

 

Whenever I download something I scan it straight away because im always downloading stuff and fucking noobs put viruses in them. They dont gain anything from it, they are idiots who get a kick out of people getting really pissed off lol.

 

Not true, I published the source code to a virus, and if theres no hackers, how are linux dedicated servers rooted? Stop using your generic pro linux bullshit and learn the real facts.

 

Scan before you run in future.. :S

 

Heh, back in the day, when I knew NOTHING (I didn't even have a firewall), I had a bad virus that autokilled explorer.exe and brought you to a new gay porn website every few seconds.

 

Haha, I've had some pretty bad viruses but nothing like that.

 

Wow. Was it called "thiswillrapeyourcomputerintheasswithoutvaseline.exe" or something?

 

Every time I get a virus (which rarely happens) I just back up my files and format the hard drive.

 

use linux

 

you could do that but that takes a while because you would have to reinstall your os every time which is anoying.

 

How wrong you are. There are plenty of viruses, worms and trojans for OS X. There was recently a massive security scare because a massive vulnerability was found in fully patched OS X systems. The virus spread like wildfire because most OS X users are too stupid to use anit-virus programs because they think they are untouchable.

The most secure OS is Linux, but it's also far from impenetrable.
Common sense is a better defense than any OS security features or anti-virus programs.

Want proof that OS X isn't immune to viruses?
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/16/mac-os-x-virus-trojan-summary/
That's just one virus from 2006.