f'uckin virii!! grrrrFollow

Okay, by the power invested in me by, well, ME, I hereby declare that anyone who even so much as CONSIDERS writing a computer virus will be immediately hanged by their ******* hairs and sodomized with a cattle prod until they repent of their evil ways and agree to spend the rest of their lives doing honest work, cleaning toilets for a living...with their tongues.

Monday:
Ambrya downloads a file she needs for a school project. McAfee starts wigging out, and giving messages such as "the last five emails sent out were identical, do you want to stop these messages?" and "McAfee has found a suspect file, do you wish to perform a complete scan now?"

Ambrya shuts down her computer, starts up in safe mode, and performs a complete scan, getting rid of about five different infected files.

Tuesday:
Ambrya runs another virus scan just for sh[black][/black]its and giggles and gets rid of another 5 infected files that somehow weren't infected on Monday.

Today:
Ambrya notices the computer acting rather laggy, then suddenly it reboots itself spontaneously as she's working on her paper. When she restarts it, she can log in, but can't open her email program, web browser, word processing program, or shut it down again using the "turn off computer" option in the Start menu. Powers computer off manually and restarts again. When she reaches the login screen, McAfee is shrieking about suspicious files, but she can't actually log in.

Ambrya shuts down computer AGAIN and starts in safe mode, runs another virus can, gets another three infected files, which are infected with a different trojan than the ones found Tuesday, which were infected with a different trojan than the ones found on Monday.

At present moment, Ambrya is swearing a blue streak as she anticipates having to rebuild her computer, and is anxiously waiting for the next manifestion of this ******* to begin.



Edited, Wed Apr 26 17:43:43 2006 by Ambrya

Ambrya needs to switch to Linux.

That stinks. My advice is to just reformat the drive and reinstall windows or whatever OS you use.

*shrug* It came free from Comcast with the cable internet service. Up till now, I've never had a problem with virii, so I really wouldn't have any basis for comparison as to which program is better or worse.

Lesson one. You get what you pay for.

I've recently been using AVG antivirus. It seems to work nicely and has gotten some really good reviews.

[:golfclap:] for the Aliens reference.

If you're really confortable about reinstalling.. (which would probably actually be faster than trying to fix it)


Don't let anyone tell you that your data is unrecoverable. It's EASy to recover data from a hard drive if it's just the OS that's hosed. I have heard many stories of people sending their PCs in and being told that nothing was recoverable. Those techs are just fu[Aquamarine][/Aquamarine]cking lazy.

(missed your previous post)

That's cool then.

Mcaffee SUCKS


Edited, Wed Apr 26 17:53:14 2006 by Kelvyquayo

Mr. Ambrya does daily backups of critical files, such as my My Documents folder, my email directory, and my World Of Warcraft UI settings and addons. Anything else can be flushed for all I care. My biggest fear is that of the backup files might be infected, but I'm really hoping that won't be the case.

True story here.

One of my co-workers was checking her email and she got an email from someone with a downloadable file. She proceeds to download the file, bypasses the virus scanning and opens the file. You can figure out what happened after that.

I'm lucky because my computer is one of the few complete standalone comps in the office so I escaped the carnage. But it was pretty funny to watch my co-worker just sit there and cry about how she didn't know that an email could do that!

After that, the office took away the ability to bypass any virus scanning whatsoever.