Virus Attack

[Guttural Engagement]

Hey everyone, you may have seen my thread earlier about whether or not I should disable my UAC.
Well, the point is; I disabled it and everything was fine for about 15 minutes or so. Then all hell broke loose.

Digital Protection (Search it up, defend yourself against it)was installed, Task manager was disabled, and a whole fuckload of other shit.

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.

So unless you know what your doing, like, SERIOUSLY know what your doing - then leave UAC ON!

It took me 2 hours just to get all of the rogue anti-spyware programs to stop running, and to enable Task Manager. I still have to remove the rogue software.

Be careful, the Internet is FULL of dangers.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.
.

Well then, "FUCKING KNOW MY SHIT" i suppose.

I run on with superuser privileges, uac off, no antivirus of any kind and no soft firewall.

Haven't gotten a virus in years.

I think it's actually quite hard to get a virus unless you're doing something a little iffy. If you aren't looking at porn, downloading pirated software, or opening attatchments that you weren't expecting, then I'm not sure where else it's going to come from. There are no viruses on the BBC news website, I know that much.

 

[Woodsey]

I just want to point out how funny it was seeing a thread named "Virus Attack" and the last recorded poster as "Sexual Harrassment" (the panda was cut off).

Oh, and UAC doesn't do anything except make you take an extra step before you open something. As long as you've got something like AVG installed then there shouldn't be a problem. XP doesn't have UAC after all.

 

[grimsprice]

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.
.

Well then, "FUCKING KNOW MY SHIT" i suppose.

I run on with superuser privileges, uac off, no antivirus of any kind and no soft firewall.

Haven't gotten a virus in years.

I think it's actually quite hard to get a virus unless you're doing something a little iffy. If you aren't looking at porn, downloading pirated software, or opening attatchments that you weren't expecting, then I'm not sure where else it's going to come from. There are no viruses on the BBC news website, I know that much.

Do the first all the time, don't do the second or third ever.

The main thing is to just exercise common sense.

*shrugs*

Yeah, its pretty easy to wander around the net, as long as you don't download anything you pretty much can't get a virus.

 

[manaman]

Last infection I had was a couple of years ago. Took me a couple of days to remove it.

I actually welcome getting infected. I find it rather enjoyable to figure out how to disable and break the malware.

I ran scans periodically, but that is the only level of security I have ever used, and still getting malware on my systems is about a once a year thing.

 

[oppp7]

Stay the Hell away from Deviant Art. Every time I go there I get redirected by a virus every 3 pages.

I don't disable stuff on my computer so I don't have to worry about much.

 

[Lyri]

Hey everyone, you may have seen my thread earlier about whether or not I should disable my UAC.
Well, the point is; I disabled it and everything was fine for about 15 minutes or so. Then all hell broke loose.

Digital Protection (Search it up, defend yourself against it)was installed, Task manager was disabled, and a whole fuckload of other shit.

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.

So unless you know what your doing, like, SERIOUSLY know what your doing - then leave UAC ON!

It took me 2 hours just to get all of the rogue anti-spyware programs to stop running, and to enable Task Manager. I still have to remove the rogue software.

Be careful, the Internet is FULL of dangers.

For people who are new to the internet, please ignore this.
It's not as bad as all that.

Question: What the hell did you do in 15 minutes that caused you a two hour set back?
Sounds to me like your computer is already clogged with virus'.

 

[Zacharine]

I think it's actually quite hard to get a virus unless you're doing something a little iffy.

I actually remember reading a study about this some time ago. The conclusion of that study was that if you disable your firewalls and AV programs and simply plug the computer net cable in without even actively using any programs that require internet, the chances of getting within 20 minutes infected with a virus, trojan or malware was around 50%.

This was done on the WinXP(SP3) OS though, so not sure how it would translate to computer running... say a Linux or Win7. And it specifically was connected pretty much straight up to a public ISP router so that there would be as few protected private routers, servers, intra-net firewalls etc in between.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I download lots of stuff and I haven't collected a virus yet so, eh.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I think it's actually quite hard to get a virus unless you're doing something a little iffy.

I actually remember reading a study about this some time ago. The conclusion of that study was that if you disable your firewalls and AV programs and simply plug the computer net cable in without even actively using any programs that require internet, the chances of getting within 20 minutes infected with a virus, trojan or malware was around 50%.

This was done on the WinXP(SP3) OS though, so not sure how it would translate to computer running... say a Linux or Win7. And it specifically was connected pretty much straight up to a public ISP router so that there would be as few protected private routers, servers, intra-net firewalls etc in between.

Was the article immediately followed by an advert for Norton?

 

[scrambledeggs]

Lol.

My UAC was deactivated the day I bought my laptop.

annoying piece of shit, it doesn't do jack.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Just don't open any email with the subject Stinky Cheese

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I think it's actually quite hard to get a virus unless you're doing something a little iffy.

I actually remember reading a study about this some time ago. The conclusion of that study was that if you disable your firewalls and AV programs and simply plug the computer net cable in without even actively using any programs that require internet, the chances of getting within 20 minutes infected with a virus, trojan or malware was around 50%.

This was done on the WinXP(SP3) OS though, so not sure how it would translate to computer running... say a Linux or Win7. And it specifically was connected pretty much straight up to a public ISP router so that there would be as few protected private routers, servers, intra-net firewalls etc in between.

Was the article immediately followed by an advert for Norton?

"Norton anti-virus, now with Magic Lantern!"

"Norton anti-virus, it's better than nothing!"
"Norton anti-virus...you wouldn't last 20 minutes without us."

 

[SniperWolf427]

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.
.

Well then, "FUCKING KNOW MY SHIT" i suppose.

I run with superuser privileges, uac off, no antivirus of any kind and no soft firewall.

Haven't gotten a virus in years.

Agreed. You've got to be pretty fucking oblivious to get a virus.

Hell, even Piracy is safe these days. Common sense and some slight computer knowledge will go a long way.

 

[Joe Deadman]

Just don't open any email with the subject Stinky Cheese

Or it'll translate your documents into swhahili?

Man virusus are annoying.
Personally I left UAC on and found pushing accept when you know what it is pretty much becomes automatic anyway.
15mins though??? The hell were you doing??

 

[Guttural Engagement]

For people who are new to the internet, please ignore this.
It's not as bad as all that.

Question: What the hell did you do in 15 minutes that caused you a two hour set back?
Sounds to me like your computer is already clogged with virus'.

Well, really I don't know what I was doing that caused that. I did nothing after disabling UAC asides from install Quake 4 (Which obviously didn't cause the problem) - and I've been running up-to date Anti-Virus (AVG FTW) since I got this computer; so I doubt my computer was already clogged with viruses.

It could've been that an internet cookie was a backdoor trojan and when I disabled UAC the trojan was able to do it's job at last? But, even that is a very unlikely scenario.

Anyways, the problem is fixed, and my computer is twice as safe as b4 (I didn't have anti-Spyware B4, just AVG 9 Free. But now I have Ad-Aware Aniversary edition and it's great)

 

[Guttural Engagement]

I recommend if you use Vista, NOT to disalbe UAC however annoying it may be UNLESS you FUCKING KNOW YOUR SHIT. I know my shit, and I thought I'd be safe without UAC; my anti virus was up to date, I had a firewall, AND I'm behind a router.
.

Well then, "FUCKING KNOW MY SHIT" i suppose.

I run with superuser privileges, uac off, no antivirus of any kind and no soft firewall.

Haven't gotten a virus in years.

Agreed. You've got to be pretty fucking oblivious to get a virus.

Hell, even Piracy is safe these days. Common sense and some slight computer knowledge will go a long way.

I'm actually VERY computer savvy; I've never gotten a virus on any of my computers before.
Until today. I've always used AVG Free for my anti-virus and it was always sufficient. I've never used any anti-spyware as AVG has a built in anti-spyware component (Not a very good one though, but it too was sufficient).

And it technically wasn't a virus - it was spyware. What I got was called "Digital Protection" - search it up.

And the only reason it took so long was because I was trying to figure out the problem on my own, and was running scans of all sorts trying to find the problem (AVG came up clean?). So finally I did 10 minutes of research on the problem, found out if wasn't a virus and was spyware (lol) - and then downloaded Ad-Aware and got rid of the problem in half an hour.

So really, it only took 30 min to fix the problem.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Thats why I run ZoneAlarm, X is trying to access the internet, "DENIED"
Its just that simple

 

[Guttural Engagement]

"Norton anti-virus, it's better than nothing!"
"Norton anti-virus...you wouldn't last 20 minutes without us."

"Norton anti-virus, thinks itself is a virus!"
(I used to use norton on my xp machine - one day I was running a scan and everything came up clean except for one small thing..... Norton detected ITSELF as a virus. I've never used/liked Norton ever since)

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

"Norton anti-virus, it's better than nothing!"
"Norton anti-virus...you wouldn't last 20 minutes without us."

"Norton anti-virus, thinks itself is a virus!"
(I used to use norton on my xp machine - one day I was running a scan and everything came up clean except for one small thing..... Norton detected ITSELF as a virus. I've never used/liked Norton ever since)

I've never used it either, it's just the one that seems to be advertised the most...or at least the one that has caught my eye in this regard. I really don't know why people actually pay for virus scanners, I too use AVG free with an odd scan here and there with malwarebytes just to be sure, and I have no problems.