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Geek Culture / virus-tastic!!

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walaber
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 18:11
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good lord... I didn't have any virus software on my computer for a long time... then today Milkshape suddenly stopped wanting to open up. so I started one of those free online virus checks.

when I stopped it and ordered a copy of Norton, it had found over 1000 infected files.

now I'm running Norton, and it's over the 2000 mark!!!

wow I'm amazed the computer was even able to boot up

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Dave J
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 18:48
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Don't touch me.


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Eric T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 19:04
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oh god... and we all opened Monkey Bowling up

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walaber
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 19:50
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I think it was more recent....

luckily Norton's taking care of it now.

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 19:57
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remember to update norton

remember to scan all files that you have downloaded and any files on removable media

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Error 0 = no error - how is this an error the???
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flibX0r
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 19:57
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I feel dirty just from reading what you said


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HZence
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 21:35
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Yeah, I've been having this issue where LiveUpdate won't run. I mean, it does, but it says "all your virus definitions are up to date" even though it hasn't updated for at least two weeks. What's up with that?


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walaber
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 21:37
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well I got the whole computer all cleaned up.

just to be safe, I'm re-uploading all of the .exe and .zip and .rar files on my website.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 21:44
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I had 113 last year after 15 years without a Virus killer. System restore sometimes makes some of them permanent. You have to turn system restore off to have a really clean computer.

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 21:59
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system restore is suppposed to help you yet it can keep viruses for months on end

nice one microsoft

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Jess T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 22:08
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Don't get us started on all the back-end faults of Windows


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Eric T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 22:14
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Whenever I see one of these i just have to post it:




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flibX0r
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 22:18
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lol

spoon


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Dave J
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 22:19
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HEHE


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Eric T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 22:22 Edited at: 4th Jul 2004 22:22
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I Had this awesome screenshot from RGT once that had a topic with "666" views, then a topic with "69" views and then a few topics down, one with "420".

I'm looking to see if I have that one to dig up from anywhere.


***checks his thousands of pictures in my documents***

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walaber
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Posted: 4th Jul 2004 23:05
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yeah, I turned off system restore... never really used it anyway.

I feel much cleaner now

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heartbone
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 01:22
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System Restore is the ONLY REAL improvement in Windows XP over Windows 98SE!!!

Now you guys say that's bogus as well? So far it has worked for me, knock on wood.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 02:07 Edited at: 5th Jul 2004 02:09
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My system restore is on Windows ME. You could turn it back on, once you have got rid of the viruses, but I never use it anyway, so I leave it off all of the time.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 02:17 Edited at: 5th Jul 2004 02:17
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holy crap - monkey bowling and newton wrapper!


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spooky
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 02:21
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System restore in XP has saved me on more than one occasion. The only downside has already been mentioned which is that virus checkers can not heal stuff in the restore folders. This causes AVG to constantly popup warning messages that there is a virus installed. Have to turn off restore, which simply deleted all the restore files, then turn it back on.


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Mentor
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 03:57
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I think monkey bowling and newton wrapper are safe, I scan everything I download and they where clean (definitions updated every evening).

Mentor.

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 04:38
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Really you should all have nothing to worry about, even if walaber's monkey bowling had virus' coming out of the wazoo.*





* as long as you have a virus scanner yourselves

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The Lynx
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 04:39
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You guys want a REAL firewall? Get the Symantec Antivirus... That thing is so heavy duty I don't know where to begin. I feel like I'm in an armored truck when I'm surfing the net. It even found a custom made trojan once, it was in a winzip self extractor too. So far it has blown away every firewall I've ever used, and I've no virus's on my computer since I got it.

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walaber
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 09:05
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thanks mentor, that makes me feel better!

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indi
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 11:41
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what about every cdrom and dvd you backed up since then as well!!!

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Ian T
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 12:51
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Eric T-> That's nothing, I live only a few blocks away from a house at the 666 address


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Eric T
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 13:13
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Well in my town, they changed the address "666 country club lane" to "667", which was only a bit down the way. The cool thing though is that there is still Highway 666 a few miles away from me.

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