so i reinstalled the OS on this dudes laptop less than a month ago and he calls me yesturday telling him that his computer is screwed up. Mainly the internet is working really slow. I installed avast5 when i reinstalled XP it updates automatically and dosent hog up resourses and i use it myself. I suspected that he has a virus so i told him to do a scan on startup thing and it turns out he has a crapload of viruses and trojans on his laptop. Since i dont want to reinstall his sytem again i decided to track down the virus and kill manually. i am still working on it.
But the thing i am wondering about is how did so much malware get past avast without even setting off a warning? I began to think it was some new virus but even then i dont see how they could even catch a virus that bad. i looked at their browsing history and they only visited social networking sites and looked at interior design sites. no porn or sketchy sites where they could pick it up. so where did this thing come from? also avast does a thing where it constantly scans the computer and it didnt pick up anything too.
i started to think it was some new virus that they didnt have in the databases yet. If its not that then avast must have really screwed up here.
after hours of virus hunting i killed off pretty much all the viruses exept for the one that causes the internet to screw up. unlike most worms/trojans that just immediatley block the internet browsers. or just blocks all antivirus sites. this one (after a bunch of scans, and a scan on startup) just causes the internet to go slow then after a few minutes just blocks some parts of connections (cant update the antivirus because of this) connection is still up, you can use skype (very slow)and stuff but cant browse the internet.
so this thing is still somewhere in the computer but antiviruses arent picking it up at all. (i managed to manually update avast during the short time when connection is still working)
Something is telling me that this guy would proboly want a different antivirus after what happened. I just have several prejudices against some AVs. people reccomend me nod 32. the story with this is many people in the past who used nod32 asked me to fix their computer which was slow and froze all the time. and every single time nod 32 was the problem. i uninstalled nod 32 and everything started working. Kaspersky is also really good but its not free (and even if you pay for it its only untill the next version which youll have to buy again) also its bloated and takes up a lot of resourses and this is a cheap weak celeron laptop and i dont think the thing can handle it. and generally i have tons of stories when i everything was fine and i installed an antivirus and darkest horrors were unleashed upon my computer. many stories like that. so i dont even install any AVs on most of my computers and they work fine for years. Ether this is some giant conspiracy against me by the antivirus corporations or i am just extremeley lucky.
so what do you guys think of this whole thing?
dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
