Community weekly poll: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus?
- 11/18/05 4:17 PM
Been Infected twice
by law_john - 5/11/05 5:26 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a Dell Dimension 2350 and have been infected with the "Blaster Worm" virus (very annoying) and the "Backdoor" trojan. They never really messed up my system, but I had a heck of a time getting them off. Even with Norton and McAffe the "Blaster Worm" virus never got off my system until I finally reformatted my system!
No virus
by Geneius - 5/11/05 5:29 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have always used anti-virus software and os firewalls when they became available. Also, my isp has a very aggressive (sometimes, too aggressive) email filter. I can modify the settings but I would rather be safe than sorry. In fact, the Cnet newsletter I am responding to was filtered out because of content. I do have the option of retrieving the filtered email.
geneius
Virus
by Jery - 5/11/05 5:33 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Had a Trojan. Had my PC completely dumped and started all over again!
Yes. Vundo.B...
by MarDel53 - 5/11/05 5:33 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Happened to me on Friday a.m. May 6th. Had just notice that my Norton Internet Security 2005 was being updated (virus def. dat files) to 4/28/05. Norton immediately detected this vundo.b via a pop up window which would not go away. Norton failed to delete the bug and also failed to quarantine it. Went to Symantec.com and did exactly what it said to do; virus could not be deleted from the registry. Asked for help all over the web; even tried HiJack This. Nothing worked. Saturday a.m. I attempted symantec.com again...Guess what...they now have a special tool to remove this thing. It worked however, they did not post directions and had to use my common sense to remove the stupid thing. But it is gone; and so is the pop up window that never went away prior to running the tool. My daughter who is a computer programmer suggested I may have gotten the virus while downloading the latest dat files from symantec. McAfee's website said it was a Symantec related virus. Go figure.
Ans to "have you ever been infected by a virus"
by riverrat69690 - 5/11/05 5:47 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Yup Yup Yup !!! I got the sassar worm last year, not too bad so you say well I finally "zeroed" my hard drive just so I could keep the thing on long enough to up date and add virus protection , and guess what before I even got to microsoft or norton for up dates I was infected again !!! What a pain and it cost me a lot of pictures and files. They should be tortured, their fingers broken ONE joint at a time, If they have so much free time they should do GOOD not evil Thanks. Chuck M . Plainfield Ill.
Some luck, lots of being careful !!!
by honsell - 5/11/05 5:52 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I always use virus protection (AVG Pro) and hide behind my (free) Sygate firewall. I get lots of attatchments (viruses) in email, but NEVER open anything I am not absolutely sure of. I do not visit sites of ill repute, IE Hacker sites & porn places. Personally I think many who do get infected, just don't use common sense.
To be fair, I could get ''burned'' any time, but I believe being paranoid will lessen one's need for ''luck''. . . . .
Hons
virus infections? Never!
by Starman35 - 5/11/05 5:52 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I never get viruses on my machine, because I am a Mac OS-X fanatic and a UNIX user! It may be because of "Security through obscurity" or the strong Unix server firewall we maintain. Either way, I've never been troubled by viruses or hackers in over 20 years of computer use.
Further, I don't use Excel macros, or allow them to run unless I trust the source, & my mail is also screened before I get it. I use Apple Mail, not Entourage.
Re: Ever been infected
by Uncle Bob - 5/11/05 5:55 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No, thankfully I have never (so far) been infected by a virus, although I've been snt dozens! I've always run Norton and kept it up to date, and have applied the tips I got from a CNET course - particularly turn off the auto preview in my email client , and never open anything that looks suspect.
Or maybe I've just been Lucky.
Uncle Bob
My computer has never been infected
by Jegrin - 5/11/05 6:03 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Boy--guess I've been very lucky!
I can only attribute my luck to a good virus scanning program, and my reluctance to download anything I don't recognize!!!
Other than that I am just your garden variety computer user!
Judy
(NT) Virus problems yes, but the homepage hijacker worse
by lucydg - 5/11/05 6:07 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have had viruses a couple of times in the last few years, but the homepage hijacker "about.blank" was harder to get rid of than any virus I have ever had.
not yet
by shadowjack - 5/11/05 6:41 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Never got a virus yet; I practice safe computing: I wrap the laptop in a gigantic condom. Nah, actually I use Zone Alarm firewall or System Suite 5 for firewall and antiviral and I use Ad-Aware, Spybot, CounterSpy and Spy Sweeper for junk removal. Registry Mechanic and Hijack This round out the crew. Frequent sweeps and updates finish off the regimen.
other things
by shadowjack - 5/11/05 6:51 AM In reply to: not yet by shadowjackI forgot to mention that I also gave Infernal Exploiter half a peace sign and use Thunderbird and Firefox. Good stuff and nicely customizable.
There isn't all that much to virus prevention
by Crash2100 - 5/11/05 7:26 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'll admit, I had a couple computer viruses in my early days, but I have learned a great deal since then and I have not had a single virus in recent years.
Protecting your computer from viruses is a lot more simple than most people would ever think. If all people did a few things, I think it would just about abolish these major computer virus and worm outbreaks.
1. Get an ISP that scans their customer's e-mail for viruses before it ever reaches their inbox. My ISP Road Runner does this, and they still give you the infected file, but it's renamed, so only someone knowing what they're doing could do anything with the file.
2. Run a firewall or use a router.
3. Don't get updates from anywhere but known legitimate sites, like ''http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/''. Don't get updates from e-mails, even if they're just links. Especially if the link contains just an IP address.
4. Set windows update and your Anti-virus program to automatically download and install updates. Because so many of these things happen after the security hole has already been patched.
5. One last step, that's not exactly necessary, but I think it would help... Use an alternative web browser like Mozilla, especially if you're using Windows XP and IE.
WHY???
by pookwus - 5/11/05 7:27 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hello All
The why was No Firewall and after 35 virus at once a firewall was a necessity.
Zone Alarm.
I had Norton for many years so I was not with out some protection.
thanks
Pookwus
DNS Information erased after I put my Resume' online aaaaarg
by Elvid - 5/11/05 7:38 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The Resume' service said it would accept HOT JOBS
Resume'(s). So I did an Edit of my Hot Jobs Resume'
& Pasted it into the "Resume' Service" (HA!).
IT WAS A TRAP! My DNS information was erased! The
nice Techs at bewellnet.com sent me a complete Tech info
sheet, by mail.
Later their newsnet went down, but they still wanted money & some angry subscribers battered the Company door down with a park bench!
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