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Post by optic on May 12, 2006 19:42:52 GMT
Never had any of these type of things happen..... I have Mcafee Antivirus, Mccafee Firewall, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Avast.
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Post by Kahlah - The Twilight Wolf on May 12, 2006 20:04:44 GMT
...and everything you use gets disabled by this one virus. So it will seem like nothing is wrong with your computer that is until the virus infects something more major, like the winlogon file. Once that's infected your system starts going through hell. From reboots for no reason, blue screens and in some causes if a virus has spread into your computer and left alone, untreated/uncured/non destroyed ... It will cause your computer to collapes. You know, shut down completely, destroy your Hard drive as it tries to process too much but just can't because the virus has totally over run it by destroying critical files that keeps it running ; i.e. overheating..short circuts...melting of vital computer parts. No windows booting leading to a black screen that haunts you.
The Hard drive collapes is usually the work of a trojan which slips into your computer compremising the secruity of your computer and network. Thus it leaves what is commonly known as a backdoor open for anything to flood into your computer and cause havok. Some trojans are programmed to allow nasty things to be added to your HD and you'll never know it until you start seeing icons from things you never installed or checking your Add/Remove Programs option in control panel and seeing other things that just wasn't there before.
"MySearchWeb" ... That for starters is a Browser Hijacker. Sometimes causes you to have popup ads from hell nonstop, most of them pr0n.
*laughs* I can go on and on about these things having seen and experienced tons of them. But I won't give you all nightmares xD
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Post by optic on May 12, 2006 22:39:22 GMT
...and everything you use gets disabled by this one virus. So it will seem like nothing is wrong with your computer that is until the virus infects something more major, like the winlogon file. Once that's infected your system starts going through hell. From reboots for no reason, blue screens and in some causes if a virus has spread into your computer and left alone, untreated/uncured/non destroyed ... It will cause your computer to collapes. You know, shut down completely, destroy your Hard drive as it tries to process too much but just can't because the virus has totally over run it by destroying critical files that keeps it running ; i.e. overheating..short circuts...melting of vital computer parts. No windows booting leading to a black screen that haunts you.
The Hard drive collapes is usually the work of a trojan which slips into your computer compremising the secruity of your computer and network. Thus it leaves what is commonly known as a backdoor open for anything to flood into your computer and cause havok. Some trojans are programmed to allow nasty things to be added to your HD and you'll never know it until you start seeing icons from things you never installed or checking your Add/Remove Programs option in control panel and seeing other things that just wasn't there before.
"MySearchWeb" ... That for starters is a Browser Hijacker. Sometimes causes you to have popup ads from hell nonstop, most of them pr0n.
*laughs* I can go on and on about these things having seen and experienced tons of them. But I won't give you all nightmares xD Again I use many of my programs and not one of them is acting up. My computer is not restarting, there are no popups on any of my browsers, no unknown processes or programs from what I can see. just curious but how do you get this virus? Is it spreading on P2P places like Kazaa? If so I only use Bit torrent and IRC and I rarely use them. Is it an attachment? a program? Just wondering how people got it. I'm not being naive or anything but from what I see I don't think I'm infected but I'll be cautious. Surprised since these kind of things are usually hoax.
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Post by Kahlah - The Twilight Wolf on May 13, 2006 15:20:10 GMT
Well it's no hoax that's for sure. I've had the mentioned virus and I know people who've had it as well. Some having over 4,000 infected files. With the spread of the virus since it was found it can actually be anywhere. Sure it's commonly found on P2Ps but once someone with a P2P catches that ugly thing and sends the infected files out to others, Then it starts raging war on their computers. Hence why I was out of commission for a few days to make sure those once infected files didn't accidently get dished out to others.
Fair warning, If an exe is inside of a rar file and the virus catches that ; Gods knows how many people you can send that bad boy to and not notice it until it's too late. BT files, a few have caught the 'virus cold' but thanks to watchful members those files were liquidated as soon as it was reported that the file was carrying the bug. Daz3D however has been put on code yellow thanks to members *cough noting that was her friends and herself spazzing that Daz3D should check their files as well* telling them that they could possible be infected as one of their merchants noticed they too somehow got that blasted bug. Thus the company has kept to performing scans as needed to make sure there's no intrusions which would put a big dent in their business *loves their business and would hate to see it on hold*
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Post by Kaya on May 16, 2006 21:52:50 GMT
How do you do safe mode??
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Post by spot41414 on Oct 12, 2006 4:24:16 GMT
* Shrugs * My brother-in-law ( who is the smartest person alive ) ghosted my computer. If a virus does this, he can turn on the computer, run the ghosting program, and everything ( except internet explorer, my computer, and paint ) will be deleted. Viruses included. <3 my in law. ~Spot
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Post by mistykennels on Feb 5, 2007 15:02:26 GMT
OMG i think i have it because sometimes my games just like shut off and my compy freezes...Its also hard to get on Internetexplorer D= NO!!!! I got blue screen of death few days ago luckily I sent nothing to anyone! D= NOOOOO stupied virusis D:<
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Post by ddd777 on Feb 8, 2007 21:20:20 GMT
Thats scary
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Post by Bubblewrap! :D on Jul 8, 2007 19:18:38 GMT
Omg. Sorry for late post kay? But suprise surprise who shows up to visit? win32! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Ugh! My computers all ready been stupid having 1 speaker broken, restarting itself all the time. And look what happens. I'm looking into a programme file, with the ends, .avg Popping up everywhere. Lets have a look inside a folder. Hmm, theres a stupid folder called win32! YAY! Meh, Luckily I'd noticed it. Time to do this check. Actually, I probably wont be allowed. >< Lets just watch my computer kill itself.
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Post by Daiiz on Jul 18, 2007 20:30:25 GMT
Doing a full scan with norton now, I'm not allowed another program I have wayy to many files 20000+ oops =] Just more to be infected I guess =[ I can not lose my petz. Does it infect macs? Because I can send all (my 500+) petz to my sister on her mac to keep them safe =] Hmmm * goes to plot saviour plan for petz *
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Post by petzqueeny on Aug 18, 2008 20:12:49 GMT
IE Anti Virus is another one. It annoys you for a month then asks for your email "cheek" don't give it to them! That's the reason why I can't go on my computer. It gives you about 12 viruses and it does all that and worse no joke. I've had to go on my mum's laptop for 7 months.
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Post by warmtearz on Jul 30, 2009 15:22:59 GMT
i have hotmail, PC guard and ntlworld.com. will it bother that?
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Post by warmtearz on Jul 30, 2009 15:24:41 GMT
also will it bother windows? i will not i repeat WILL NOT be able to live having lost all my petz!!!!
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