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dark nooby
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 21:24
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Oh yes its happened to me twice in two days, both times i had AVG free running in the background (was also updated) both times i had to reformat cause the virus hits all ".exe" files. Try reformatting 1500gigs of harddrive space and the stupity of getting it from the same websited twice called "xp styles" while installing one of there themes.

Twice bitten twice shy! i posted this message as a warning to show that AVG free edition wont save your comp from virii like "win32\gaelica.a".
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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 21:25
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AVG sucks


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Roxas
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 21:28
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Try "Avast!"

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 22:06
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dark nooby:
It's "once bitten, twice shy". Why did you even go back to the same site?

Doesn't the free and the paid for version have the same protection BTW?

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Aertic
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 22:25
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Everyone is getting viruses, I just got spyware today, damn IE7 attracted me to this spyware.
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Roxas
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 22:43
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Quote: "Everyone is getting viruses, I just got spyware today, damn IE7 attracted me to this spyware."


I havent got any viruses for ages.. If you know about secury you get none..

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Silvester
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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 22:47
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That XP style "mod" is a virus, if you had read reviews about it, you'd know this.
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GatorHex
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 00:07
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I could write a program today that deleted all your exe files and it would get you tomorrow no matter what virus check you used. Nothing really stops a zero day attack exept maybe Linux and Vista SP1 not letting you delete OS files unless your the super admin

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Roxas
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Quote: "I could write a program today that deleted all your exe files and it would get you tomorrow no matter what virus check you used. Nothing really stops a zero day attack exept maybe Linux and Vista SP1 not letting you delete OS files unless your the super admin "


True but i wont be stupid enough to d/l it

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 00:26
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Antivirus is useless in most cases. When I used to have it, it would let me download a zip, extract it, run the files and THEN tell me that the zip contained a virus. If a virus is polymorphic, it's very difficult to catch. If you're unlucky to catch a virus in the first three days or so of its release, chances are it's not in your database so it won't get caught at all. And you know what? 4 years, 3 months and 2 days since I last had antivirus. And I've never had a problem since.


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Roxas
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 00:41
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Avast! checks the folder you are viewing.. Also it checks downloaded files.

Not sure if it checks if some proggy is trying to delete important files or trying to format comp.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 00:50
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The PC downstairs is using Avast! It is up to date, but still can't stop viruses. It often only notices them after you've been using the files involved for the past hour. Utterly bleeding useless. And then it often makes a hash of cleaning the files, usually requiring a reboot before it is capable of removing the viruses. I would have used NOD32 on it, but I wasn't involved in the software setup.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 00:53
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Probably a good idea just to buy some antivirus software, all this free stuff lets too much through, I'm picking up the best AV money can buy when I have said money - of course it isn't necessarily the most expensive one.

At the moment I'm running MacAffee and AVG anti spyware and isn't the best choice out there.

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 02:18
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AVG- Free, good, but flawed. If you know how to browse the internet, then you'll be safe. If you download stupid stuff you'll get virus. If you go back to the same website again and download the same file again, you'll get more viruses. That's just common sense.

Norton- Costy, but works. Annoying, starts up w/ computer, slows down everything, has random annoying popup messages, but has good download virus checking.

McAffee- Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Doesn't stop viruses, can't find them well, can't delete them well. Here's a story...
McAffee popup - "New McAffee Update Available!"
Me - "Hmmm, why not."
McAffee - "Downloading Update"
McAffee - "Update downloaded successfully and installed"
McAffee - "5 new viruses found. Click to do a scan"

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bitJericho
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Quote: "Probably a good idea just to buy some antivirus software, all this free stuff lets too much through, I'm picking up the best AV money can buy when I have said money - of course it isn't necessarily the most expensive one."


The best AV I've had is Nod32, I recommend it to everyone. It gets top marks on detection, and most importantly, you almost see no effect on your system when you install it. Unlike norton or mcafee that slow your system to hell.


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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 03:00
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I have Norton, and I love it so much. For extra protection, I only download virus-scanned files performed by the site.

Once I had to wipe my hard drive clean a while ago, when I got a killer midas virus while downloading GIMP. I'm never touching gimp again. EVER!!

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Dude232
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i have had no probs with gimp so i wonder why that happened

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Roxas
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 15:46
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I had norton.. It DID find the viruses! But never removed or fixed.. Ive never had any proplems with Avast! its weird Nex tho why it does to you like that :/

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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 16:40
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Apparently Anti-vira is a good piece of software, our radio technician keeps recommending it to users, though I've not tried it, but it keeps our student radio broadcasting computer clean. Amusingly he tells people off who have Norton installed on their hard drive, telling them it's a bad, bad idea. From my experience with Norton, all I can do with the guy is concur.

Quote: "Once I had to wipe my hard drive clean a while ago, when I got a killer midas virus while downloading GIMP. I'm never touching gimp again. EVER!!"


I got a lop.ax trojan when download SP2 when I just reinstalled Windows, I didn't have to time to make my computer secure before getting a virus...It was quite strange. Though Spybot managed to kill it when all other antivirus and spyware software I tried couldn't (they just killed the duplicate viruses as it actually sat in the registry duplicating itself)

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xplosys
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 16:44
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I did a search for your virus in the major search engines and the major A/V databases, and came up with nothing. Where did you get that name from?

Best.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 17:14
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Here you go guys, I found the website for Antivir, apparently it's a decent app and up to date, might be worth looking at - I'm about to do a scan and see how quick it is and see if it picks anything up that MacAffee and AVG didn't.

http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 17:20 Edited at: 28th Apr 2008 17:21
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AVG is sucky (i think it's slow becuase it check pointless text files) but it's totaly free maybe forever so like my moma always said "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

Is the any other free anit virus out there? Any run on 64bit Vista?

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Oh wierd you read my mine Seppuku

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Posted: 28th Apr 2008 17:23 Edited at: 28th Apr 2008 17:23
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Ahem, Avira Anti-vir ^^ (my last post) I don't know how well it runs on 64bit Vista, but I know somebody with Vista is running it.

I'm literally testing how good it is right now. (after its downloaded)

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Jeff032
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I'm running Avast! on 64bit Vista.

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bitJericho
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I'm only running ClamWin. I'm not willing to pay for an antivirus, and I'm not willing to sacrifice my computer's performance using avg

I scan any file I download from an untrusted place. And I haven't been hit with anything, and I've been doing it for the better part of a year


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dan958
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I reinstalled windows of the virus ive had for ages the other day, it always corrputed my filed like dbp and wings 3D so i had to unistall and install every time i turned my pc on, it was something about 'crss', or something like that.
Now all my files are fine, and now i only have dbp and wings-3d on my pc!


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Quote: "ClamWin"

That is horrible it doesn't even work well, everyone should use Bitdefender

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bitJericho
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As I said, I'm not willing to pay for antivirus. Microsoft should pay for my antivirus...

This is why I mainly use linux


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Seppuku Arts
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Jerico, bill them, see where you go with that.

After all when you buy a product, it's natural to expect it to have no problems and the customer has the right to work with the companies to rectify them. After all the product isn't 'as is'

Though I'm sure it don't work that way with computers, hence we're either using crappy AVs or paying out money for a good one.

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I get Mcafee free from work but I've read some tests that place NOD32 above it. NOD32 only costs $30 a year, so it's very reasonable. Anyone else have any information on comparing the two products?


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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If ever a friend of mine gets a virus, I tell them to use the NOD32 trial. Out of four disasters, it's brought three back into a working state.


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SunnyKatt
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Quote: "i have had no probs with gimp so i wonder why that happened"


When I went to download it it gave me a bajillion mirror links - I picked a bad one, apparently.

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I use Avira anti-vir, it's free and i'm yet to have a virus on this computer, although that's also due to me being careful what i do and not downloading from suspect sources.

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Using AVG and recommending it wherever I can. Catches everything I've met till now, including on the family PC.


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Quote: "I use Avira anti-vir, it's free and i'm yet to have a virus on this computer, although that's also due to me being careful what i do and not downloading from suspect sources.
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Has done the job to day, done a scan and it detected 3 viruses that the other two I tried didn't - am glad too, mind you on this rather crap laptop I was flying solo because no AV could be installed without it being monumentally slow to run, Avira anti-vir isn't so bad for performance.

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