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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Dec 29, 2004 23:25:56 GMT -5
i had a bad virus and i lost my internet connection,
so how was every's christmas.
ps. sorry i was gone
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Post by red.yoshi on Dec 30, 2004 0:21:36 GMT -5
awsome, glad to have ya back  |
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Dec 30, 2004 0:38:30 GMT -5
it's good to be back.
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Post by joshi on Dec 30, 2004 1:00:14 GMT -5
A single virus made you absent for that long?  What kind of virus was it? |
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Dec 30, 2004 1:04:02 GMT -5
actulaly it was like 10 and they took my internet connection and i couldn't get rid of them either.
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Post by joshi on Dec 30, 2004 1:06:38 GMT -5
Your Antivirus couldn't get rid of them. Oh dear... I'm guessing they were Adware/Spyware then, the Antivirus I have don't touch those.
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Dec 30, 2004 2:08:25 GMT -5
yep,hijackers too
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Post by Yosh on Dec 30, 2004 3:17:27 GMT -5
and it could be attached to the "temporary files" and make spwan (i dont know if it is spwan when it takes the file back from the internet) and the attach the virus to it. There was several spywere in my computer there... (78 spywere actually)
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Post by Jacobyoshi on Dec 30, 2004 8:01:19 GMT -5
I had a virus just like that , it took away my msn and it screwed up my internet..
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jan 1, 2005 9:57:47 GMT -5
Always a good idea to have some sort of protection. Best way really is, if that's your own computer, get a hold of Mozilla FireFox. It doesn't go installing things by itself, and keeps your computer safe. Admittedly, I don't have AntiVirus software on here. Haven't done for months. Never got infected. Doesn't mean I won't though. You just never know. If something goes wrong, I'll reinstall windows. Only takes an hour and a half of my time. Get AdAware: www.lavasoft.deGet FireFox: www.GetFirefox.comAlso, switch on your Windows Firewall too! |
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Post by cj on Jan 1, 2005 10:16:56 GMT -5
I got a virus that did absolutley nothing once. All of a sudden I got this pop-up that said a virus had been detected amd cleaned. Kinda wierd.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jan 1, 2005 10:38:19 GMT -5
Trojan horse, most likely. Perhaps you were lucky. Trojan horse code open ways into your computer, making your Firewall useless, then a script kiddie(A wannabe hacker) connects to that port, and allows them free access to your PC.
Some firewall softwares detect ports becomming open and alerts the user that a certain program is attempting to access the internet. If in doubt, always terminate the program, as it says in the dialog that pop's up. That way, you know you're secure.
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Post by Jacobyoshi on Jan 3, 2005 17:29:24 GMT -5
Thats the virus I got was that stupid trojan horse and It messed my puter because we dident evean know we had it.
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Post by Jacobthehero on Jan 3, 2005 21:21:20 GMT -5
where is a virus?  |
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jan 4, 2005 16:58:55 GMT -5
it can make it's home anywhere on the hard drive. almost always in a temp folder, but they can store itself somewhere really important too.
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Post by Moot on Jan 4, 2005 17:13:32 GMT -5
In case anyone is in need of a virus scanner, get AVG from www.grisoft.com . From what I've seen so far, its good... found a few viruses that my copy of VirusScan didn't find... time to let my old scanners subscription expire  ...Its also free  |
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Post by cj on Jan 4, 2005 20:31:55 GMT -5
Theres something wierd about the virus I got: I always get this pop up that says "Your free 90 day trial of Mcfree Virus scan or something has expired" but after I have gotten that pop op multiple times the virus was cleaned. Its wierd.
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Post by Yoshi9 on Jan 4, 2005 20:51:23 GMT -5
I think my older computer had a virus once....yes! Yes it did, I'm quite sure, I remeber this thing that would pop up (the screen turned all blue I think) and it said.....something. I researched and found out that it was a computer problem (either a virus or something wrong in the computer system itself)...dang it I forget most of the story! But what it did was delete my wordpad docs. It was HORRIBLE! I would be working on a school report, and couldn't save it, because the message might pop up and delete it! Plus I had to work fast, because the message would pop up and delelte it if I waited too long, too! That was the worst thing on my comouter that I can remember. Imagine having a long thing to type on the computer, and then having to do it multiple times because it keeps getting deleted before you finish working on it! Thank God that's over with now.
Btw, it started with a c and was very long, didn't look like a virus name to me.....
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Post by Yosh on Jan 12, 2005 11:49:47 GMT -5
they usually are in (if you use win LEVEL UP ! !) local directory
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Post by Yoshi9 on Jan 12, 2005 12:45:12 GMT -5
I found the name of what it was in my computer a few days ago. I was wrong, it didn't start with a c, it started with a K. It was called "KRNL386.exe". And this message would come up that said "Explorer caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:000075a2."
Yeah, I wrote it down on paper, thought the paper was gone, but it wasn't afterall! I think that was what was messing up the docs then.
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