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| Posted on 2011-11-20 03:15:28 PM |
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Share your stories here!
I've only ever had one, it was a trojan that redirected my Google searches. It took a couple of weeks to find out what it even was so I could get rid of it. Turns out it was a fake Firefox extension that ran an overlay script on search engines. I'm not at all happy that Symantec let it through, and if it wasn't a pain to uninstall, it'd be replaced by now.
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| Posted on 2011-11-20 04:30:05 PM |
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Lots of times. Back then when I didn't use any antivirus protection for almost two years, I wanted to check up on the current status, got Antivir and the result was a whopping load of trojans, adware and the likes. I instantly went for a whole reinstallation of the OS as I wanted to clean up my laptop anyway and this was the most efficient way of killing two birds with one stone.
I'm not technically inclined and usually opt for the easiest method for me, hence my often dumb decisions. If it's a virus I can get rid of easily, I try to kill it with an antivirus, if the problem persists I reinstall the whole thing. There's never anything on my laptop I can't replace easily enough.
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| Posted on 2011-11-20 08:05:38 PM |
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Never.
There was a time when I wanted to crack a program, which I understood to be risky behaviour. At the time, I only had AVG, which detected nothing. I ran the .exe, and it disappeared. Downloaded it a second time and it did it again. Being suspicious, I figured that if it were a virus, it has to run on startup to do anything, otherwise restarting would nullify it. I checked msconfig, and all the startup entries had nice names and corporations except for one which was a random jumble of letters. Google'd it, lo and behold it was a virus. I deleted the executable, thus before it had a chance to run. MBAM did detect it as a virus once I installed MBAM.
Second 'near' case, which may be an issue for those "if you use common sense, you don't need an anti-virus" folk. I used my flash drive at a school computer, and it detected my autorun.inf file as a virus. It obviously wasn't, I only used it to give my flash drive an icon, but when I got home, I noticed a /RECYCLER/{*stuff*}/crsxx.exe that was new (hidden & system folder). It was indeed a virus, which presumably edited my autorun.inf file so that it could run next time my flash drive was used. Odd that the school's antivirus would catch my autorun.inf being edited, but not the virus itself. I spoke to the library's computer dude, who said he'd run a scan. I talked to a few students, they plugged their flash drives in my computer and I saw it on theirs even after I talked to the dude. However, I haven't seen it since even though I have used the library computers, so I guess he eventually got around to it and found it. I mention the quote at the beginning, because most people wouldn't consider using another computer to be risky, typically chalking 'common sense' to not watching porn or downloading shady executables, and you'd have to go out of your way to disable autorun (though I think Win7 disables it from flash drives by default, maybe.. doesn't stop people from falling to things like this if they aren't careful though).
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| Posted on 2011-11-21 06:57:24 AM |
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Ah, I remember Conficker. My mom had gotten her flash drive infected at the school where she works. Her home computer was running Windows XP at the time, though, so that ended up being infected as well. Windows XP happily ran whatever autorun.inf dictated without question.
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| Posted on 2011-11-21 10:19:54 AM |
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Not since I've started using Linux. Before then, plenty of times. Especially back when I used XP. That computer had a crapload of things wrong with it.
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| Posted on 2011-11-22 04:42:30 AM |
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Yes, plenty of times, since I used Limewire heaps when I was in grade 6. Recently, the only viruses that I ever caught have been promptly removed by MSE and AVG.
There was once a big virus issue running throughout the school at one point, which I think was started by a bunch of kids putting warez on the school servers, causing some infected keygen to spread onto any drive that got loaded onto the terminals, including USB drives.
That took about a year to fix, they eventually just reset the server
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| Posted on 2011-11-22 10:58:08 AM |
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Yep, twice. But I am going to tell you the one that really pissed me off.
Well, I got infected by this Trojan virus, and it would randomly spawn advertisements on my computer, and back then I use to play Runescape a lot. Well, whenever you play runescape a lot of clicking is happening on that screen. Well, the virus would randomly spawn ads right in front of my screen and would not go away for about 5 minutes... One time this happened I was woodcutting wearing full rune. Then that damn tree spirit appeared (the random event which is now gone, thank god), I was like "yes I have enough food to kill it this time", then a random ad popped up right on my damn screen, and I wasn't able to click on the screen. So I started freaking out that I was going to die and lose my rune armor, so I quickly unplugged my computer, being 10, I didn't realize that the combat sequence would continue, since I did not log out properly. I was so pissed when I logged back on to discover I had died... After that I restored my computer to factory defaults, re-installed everything, and vowed not to ever view porn on that computer again. Although being 10 that is a pretty hard thing to avoid haha.
Now I really want to tell about the other one, so I am going to lol:
So, I was probably about 13, maybe 14. My brother wanted to show me the video 2 girls 1 cup... I was like "what is that?" he just laughed and said "you will see, don't worry it isn't bad"... right. Well he searched it on google videos, and it lead him to a site that supposedly said that they supported the video. But it said we needed to install Adobe HD Premium to view it. I thought it was pretty suspicious since I had never heard of Adobe HD Premium, sounded pretty off... Well before I could say anything he clicked on the download link. Then a message saying "your computer has "x" viruses, you need to immediately scan it with VirusProof Advance (something like that...), and I started freaking out because I knew what that meant, it has happened to me before lol... Well I kept trying to click out of the boxes but it just kept suggesting things that I needed to download, the computer was pretty much going crazy, so I held the power button to shut it down. I called my brother an idiot, then booted it back up. Everything seemed fine, except... for a new anti-virus was installed?? AND my Norton Anti-virus was gone! So I went on the internet to check it out. I typed in whatever I thought would help in this situation. The results popped up. I clicked on it, and it brought me to some random site. It just kept doing this whenever I searched for something... And occasionally it would redirect my URLs to some advertise filled nonsense website. Well my brother brought it to one of his friends that was pretty advanced with computers. He fixed it up for $50, and the computer seemed fine, except it had some pretty noticeable slowdown >_< Viruses are such a pain in the ass.
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| Last edited on 2011-11-22 11:45:40 AM by Protoman. |
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| Posted on 2011-11-22 11:42:36 AM |
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Not once, Windows or Linux. I don't see how people get viruses, I once had to get a virus for a school assignment and it took me 4 hours of TRYING to get a virus before I was actually able to get one.
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| Posted on 2011-11-22 04:32:06 PM |
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My super old computer from when I was about seven with antivirus that turned itself off a lot managed to get a lot of trojans on it. But apart from that, I don't remember anything else.
I also had a close call a couple of years ago. After clicking a legit-looking Google result, it brought me to one of those "you have x viruses on you computer" pages. I clicked no on the notifications, until I came across one that didn't have a no button. With no other choice, I just rebooted the computer. That said, it was a Mac, so it probably wouldn't execute properly.
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| Last edited on 2011-11-22 04:36:35 PM by NismoZ. |
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| Posted on 2011-11-23 02:42:05 AM |
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I've gotten a Trojan on my old XP laptop once that resulted in me reformatting that partition of the HDD. This laptop however hasn't gotten anything as horrible as of yet. I did however get some virus that ran some executable that had a gibberish name .exe. so it was a matter of finding it with Task Manager and removing the folder.
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| Posted on 2011-11-23 04:26:47 AM |
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Never since about 2006. I've even used Windows 98 on the net without an AV. It's just freaking common sense.
I'm mostly a Linux user... I'm immune to Windows strains.
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| Posted on 2011-11-23 11:17:42 AM |
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It's happened twice, but that was back before I got this (in my opinion) Super Computer. Great virus protection.
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| Posted on 2011-11-23 06:20:31 PM |
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Lots of times. Sorry, I don't remember the stories.
My recommendation: Beware of the files that you download, specially with Ares.
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| Posted on 2011-11-24 08:31:11 PM |
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Many times. One memorable experience is that when I was 8 our computer had a virus that made it so that whenever Internet Explorer was opened all that showed up was a picture of some lady having sex with a dog. I haven't the slightest idea how I got a bestiality virus, but whatever.
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| Posted on 2011-11-24 08:44:52 PM |
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Been using computers since 1998, and nope, never. I guess I never downloaded anything unless I trusted it (at least, until I was a bit older and could be smarter online).
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| Posted on 2011-11-25 03:16:14 AM |
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I had a really bad infection several years ago that I was proud to get rid of almost on my own. Dad helped with getting MalwareBytes to work, but other than that it was solo trial and error.
Just today I apparently got a bot in my computer, so I had to sweep through my compy with various scanning programs. Hopefully it's no longer there, though for all intents and purposes it might still be. All I know is that Spybot S&D picked up a registry change as well as cookies, but all the other scans came out clean.
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| Last edited on 2011-11-25 03:17:35 AM by Gabu. |
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| Posted on 2011-11-27 09:23:57 AM |
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Yeah,very long time ago. I played Mario forever (lol,dont download it from cnet or wahtever,virus),and some thing in taskbar near clock showed:''Your system is infected'' ''Windows will download a fake antivirus''OOps,i mean: ''Windows will download most up to date antivirus for you''.It was the fake Antivirus 2009,thought you could scare me with non existing ''viruses'' in there,didn't you?> Anyway i got it unistalled.
Using SpyHunter,i think.It's not virus,maybe a rogue.
And 1 more thing.
Very very old time ago friend of mine reinstalled windows.Next day the pc has fake antiviruses (Virusheat,Malware Protector,Malware bell),i was like:WTF?
I deleted them from Add-remove programs,and help with youtube,cause they might change registry,and some files appear in Windows and System (maybe 32) folders.
Watch the : In action...Casino virus yes,type like this,with the ... also in youtube to see.
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| Last edited on 2011-11-28 07:36:39 AM by Erikas0012. |
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| Posted on 2011-12-05 03:10:12 PM |
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Not a single time - never used an antivirus either.
Anything remotely suspicious I confine to a VM on a non-Windows machine. Call me paranoid, perhaps, since this was never absolutely necessary, but I'd rather err on the side of caution.
I've had USB disks get hit with something due to an infected high school computer. I wouldn't count this, though - since I knew what was going on, it never spread to my home machine.
My mother has gotten hit by one thing - Koobface, I believe. (And amusingly, she's not even that big of a facebook user.) Took care of that one as well. I think something related to this truly broke the XP install, though...
I've shifted over to more of an OS X/Linux user since the disaster that was Windows 7, though - not due to malware, just an awful experience with the OS itself (Try having it randomly blow up in your face for literally no reason!). I still run XP on my primary desktop, and I just don't see how people have random issues with it aside from bad drivers. Hell, even 7 wasn't bad until it exploded like that... although I'm getting off topic now.
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| Posted on 2011-12-11 06:03:25 AM |
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Well...there were two times. The first time, is an apparent falsified link to Knytt Stories which crapped up Google Chrome to search Babylonian. EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING time.
The second just made any browser shut down immediately after it opened.
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| Last edited on 2011-12-11 06:05:07 AM by mariofanbusterfourty. |
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| Posted on 2011-12-11 01:54:15 PM |
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I have internet connection since about 2005 now and I have yet never had any viruses, although I don't think I've ever been overly careful with downloading stuff. I have to add though that I have since the first day I used the internet always been using an antivirus.
The only viruses the antivirus ever really found were trojans, which were probably just regular files that my antivirus for some reason thought of as trojans.
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