Community weekly poll: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus?
- 11/18/05 4:17 PM
virus free
by davtom - 5/11/05 12:44 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Just treat everything as suspicious, any email that comes into my inbox without an agreed code within the subject box gets deleted, zone alarm pro is always on and Norton always up to date, sorry but its not rocket science just common sense.
(NT) Only once in five years, KLEZ..
by slappybones - 5/11/05 1:02 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Virusses
by Bluedun - 5/11/05 1:03 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Never had one. use Norton Systemworks.
Never
by Gary_Mac - 5/11/05 1:11 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Simple really buy an Apple Mac, or if you must stay with a PC dump windows and run LINUX
Never - I use anti-virus and common sense
by nige - 5/11/05 1:14 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've always used an anti-virus program (Norton at first, now AVG) and I'm not embarassed to delete without reading emails that I'm not expecting and don't recognise. Curb your curiosity!
AOL
by dejanira - 5/11/05 2:00 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
AOL takes care of all the viruii and worms and trojans, etc.....
Never been infected.
by Getriebe - 5/11/05 2:38 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
my PC has never been infected by a virus. I have no secret. I simply use a very small number of security tools and optimise their effectiveness by:
1. familiarising myself with the tools i use,
2. using security tool settings that best suit my setups,
3. keeping security tools updated,
4. keeping actively updated on relevant security issues, and keeping OS updated,
5. actively keeping track of, and monitoring the contents and general performance of my PC,
In a nutshell, consistent proactivity and commonsense.
Stay off the Band Wagon
by tbird1938 - 5/11/05 3:00 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've never had a virus.
1. I use Dialup
2. I have used Netscape for the last decade (7% of the browser market) And i believe because it's used less it's safer.
3. I just dropped FireFox like a hot potato, i can see the handwriting on the wall. FireFox is going to be the new target and i don't think FireFox can keep up with hacking as well as IE.
virus NewDotNet
by mikeszumski - 5/11/05 3:15 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
lurking in the grey area between "virus" and "adware", N dot Net took me several hours to clean off my XP.
how?
by zapfire86 - 6/18/05 1:34 PM In reply to: virus NewDotNet by mikeszumskihow did u finaly get rid of it? it is a pain in to get rid of. I try to get rid of everything manually but it says its in use. I use ctrl+alt+delete to close everything that I can and it still won't let me get rid of that.
virus infection
by kingstrat52 - 5/11/05 3:28 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I know that I was infected by the Sasser worm on several occasions. I found it living in Earthlink. My McCafee virus program didn't stop it. Earthlink sent out a mailing with instructions on removal and it worked but, everytime I tried to download anything from Earthlink it returned. I no longer use Earthlink and have not had any problems since.
How to Avoid Viruses on Windows
by pro696 - 5/11/05 3:49 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have removed several viruses from many people's computers and most of them were caused by ActiveX in IE.
The best way is to download the open-source browser, Firefox (www.getfirefox.com), which does not have ActiveX, and use it for your normal web browsing. It has many more features, too.
As for e-mail viruses, I trust no one. If someone sends you an app or even a picture, I always verify it unless that person told me that they were going to send it. Microsoft has allowed scripting in innocent files just to make Office look better, but it has sacrificed many computers in the process. Whatever makes them richer will always be worth it to them.
Have you ever had a Virus
by pawpawmacx - 5/11/05 4:03 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have worked and played with computers sence thq early sixties, operation and programming the large , room filling mainframe UNIVAC's. Now I have had many viruses and assisted my grandchildren in ridding their XP systems of many also. ( like SASSER, etc.) One had 65 occurances of various viruses in her laptop and it had brought it's operation to a standstill.
As the first deployable system to be used in the Marine Corps supply system was a hard case COMPAQ 285, I have always gone with COMPAQ/HP and the latest system, currently XP SP-2.
When my grandchildren reached an age I thought they could understand and use a computer, I bought 3 systems. Of course then they only had a 2.5 gig hard drive. Theirs have been upgraded several time sence. They always use an anti-virus program and anti-ad-ware , store bought programs for protection and they all have had infections agt one time or another
Yes but more than 5 years ago
by Aravis - 5/11/05 4:49 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It was a zip file called ebay; that's all I remember. I was a real newbie and had no protection. It wiped out my whole hard drive, instantly.
Good lesson though; I now have all the protection anyone could advise, and have never had data destroyed again.
My computer was not infected by a virus !!
by hasmohsin - 5/11/05 4:50 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1. - Install Norton Internet Security (latest).
2. - Install Counterspy over it.
3. - Eevery week delete all cookies and internet files (%temp%) in RUN command.
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