Community weekly poll: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus?
- 11/18/05 4:17 PM
No infections here!
by jhoule - 5/11/05 7:40 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sorry guys, I use Macintosh G5's. I run two different virus checkers and they have never found a virus. I never open emails from senders I don't know and I always delete emails that I'm sure are bogus.
Short version: Buy a Mac. 
Not really a virus...
by smartipants - 5/11/05 7:42 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I once had a porn dialer worm. Since 1994, I've been totally anal about keeping my PC safe, but when my online virus protection ran out a couple of years ago, I took about two weeks to decide if I really needed to renew it. I did decide to renew, but in the meantime a porn dialer snuck in, and I started getting all kinds of raunchy, vulgar, porn spam. Changing my email address solved the problem, and now I have my virus protection plus a firewall and two adware/malware programs running at all times on my DSL connection. I check constantly and the PC has quarantined a couple of minor infections immediately, but nothing else has ever had a negative effect on it. Knock on wood... :o)
Has your computer every been infected by a virus?
by dovecot - 5/11/05 7:44 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Yes it certainly has. only the week before last I decided to refresh my server so I formatted the hard drive, installed my 'Windows 2000 Advanced Server' operating system,& Panda antivirus, then went to microsoft to install updates when my machine decided to slow right down to a crawl and then freeze.... The only thing I could do was to hard boot! As I was hitting the 'off' switch I remembered someone telling me of a virus which causes the same symtoms... I then switched the computer back on but ..... Yes thats right 'NO HARD DRIVE' so I had to go out and buy a new one. Sickening isn't it.
Yes but by the same trojan
by bwdave - 5/11/05 7:50 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Not sure which trojan it was, but it infected my wife's computer and the kids computers. Mine was untouched. I've installed pest patrol and bit defender since then and things are running smoother now. I think it is the stuff from Yahoo messenger and Messenger Plus that infected our computers. What do you think? Do you think Yahoo has advertisers installing stuff on systems. Also noticed Lycos is a nasty adware server.
Windows user - Never been infected/affected
by primal1 - 5/11/05 7:59 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Have always had some form of protection. Can't believe folks who think it won't happen to them. It will and I think they deserve it in a way. I've had viruses show up on computer but they've been dealt with immediately and no problems ensued. I've got six apps running at the moment (most are free) and I do not open ANYTHING I didn't ask for. Just be aware and vigilant about updates.
Only once
by Themisive - 5/11/05 8:19 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I keep my AV & firewalls up to date, along with spyware prgrammes & use them regularly
Its a job hazard
by roadiebob - 5/11/05 8:19 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My main focus in the company I work for is Virus prevention and removal. I am always up to date on definitions and scan my system daily, but every once in awhile a new one comes along and I can get infected while investigating. I find most infections on the clients I work on are due to human engineering. People will click on anything that grabs their eye, especially if it includes the word "Free". It’s annoying but it keeps allot of us employed.
One of my computers has never been infected and...
by TimInVA - 5/11/05 8:31 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
that is not because it has an antivirus program running all the time. It is because I run Firefox on it and never fire up Outlook or Outlook Express. It's on our network and like all other computers is available to the internet full time via DSL. It runs Windows 2000 and Windows Update is run religiously. We have other machines with low trouble incidence, running Windows 2000 and Windows 98, and we do not have any full time online anti-virus software in place. We simply don't run Outlook/Outlook express, all email is done on the web with Google or Yahoo mail or another web mail client. The security settings on IE are set tighter than you might normally do them. Periodically we run Housecall, Adaware, and Spybot Search and Destroy. The most trouble we get is saying Yes to installing something without realizing it was a data gathering bot, or the occasional porn site wanting to take over the machine and dial an offshore phone number. In most cases simply reading the screen before we click solves the problem. The spam blockers in web mail have been improving, reducing to near zero the porn and get rich quick scheme junk mails with beacons in them and auto pop-ups.
I keep links to my toolset on my blog, left side easy to find: http://www.blogstogo.com/timothybloggins
Virus Infection Poll
by fluffypitbull - 5/11/05 8:45 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No I haven't, but I have a Mac & it seems not many people are writing viruses for them. That could soon change though as Apple products are becoming more popular.
Once, a long time ago
by supercub - 5/11/05 9:27 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Since then I have created a file folder ''Check Weekly'' and in it I have the following programs: 01 Microsoft RegClean 02 AdAware SE 03 Spybot 04 McAfee Virus Scan
05 Zone Alarm (Free) I run them weekly after checking for updates, I have Windows on auto update and I've been good for the last 4 years on a 5 computer network here at home.
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by popajo - 5/11/05 10:18 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
yes a long time ago i got hit by the bonzi buddy virus
then about three months ago was hit by a trogen
Has your computer ever been infected by a virus?
by hgs - 5/11/05 10:51 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Never. My computer is a mac.
Any further questions ?
Viral Infection
by Preacher43 - 5/11/05 11:06 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had a virus once way back in 1991. I can't remember which one it was but since then I have continuously run Zone Alarm, Norton AV and AdAware. I have since upgraded to Zone Alarm Pro, added Spybot SD, Spyware Blaster and Webroot Spysweeper. It is a particlarly pernicious and perverted individual who takes the time to try to find a way to destroy something that someone else created. Some wiser than I have said that locks and bars keep out honest people, but a thief will always try to find a way to get in. I don't know that anything we do will deter virus writing vermin from from trying.
Never had a serious virus and only one worm....why?
by Gran60 - 5/11/05 11:07 AM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Probably because of a good virus program and plain dumb luck !!!
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by slippalong - 5/11/05 12:52 PM In reply to: Has your computer ever been infected by a virus? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have downloaded many viruses,why?becuase I keep a spare hard drive that I load up anti virus and anti spyware and adware and look for viruses and which is the best for zapping them.I have found that the best set up is AVG free anti virus, Zonealarm fire wall and Adware 6 anti adware with a back up of spybot search and destroy with spyware blaster.Also I use incredimail which apart from being fun to use has a good junk mail folder that you can view without opening any e mails and if you don't trust what you see you can clear the folder with one click of your mouse.The above setup is on my main hard drive and has been virus free for as long as I can remember.I have also tried the new microsoft xp anti spyware which shows alot of potential.
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