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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Mid terms! and Viruses!

So I have mid terms coming up next week or so, I will not be posting as much due to trying to study and make sure i am prepared for them. This will be difficult since I have a math mid term and I really hate math. Last night i was surfing the web trying to find something to watch on netflix and such, when all of a sudden i get a message saying that my computer is infected with malware.... Now let me set the scene for you all. I am running a windows 7 OS. Now this "Anti Virus" randomly pops up when I started to make my way to google. Now everyone knows that your Anti Virus if you have one will pop up on your computer itself and not make a new tab in your browser. So this "Anti Virus" makes a tab in my Google Chrome browser and shows me a Window XP OS and i just sit there and laugh my ass off due to the failure it has done.

I shut down that tab and take the time to scan my computer. It was most amusing since it showed me the wrong OS. Now since i am an IT professional and knew how to handle these types of problems. What do you all think about the Fake Anti viruses that are actually viruses?

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  1. Some of them make me laugh, but it's the ones that you DON'T see that scare me. I reformatted my laptop 2 months ago. Since then, all my anti virus software (PC Tools + Ad-Aware + Spybot S&D) said zero infections. Zero malware. It finally dies. Bad. I take it to a geek, and he says "You have some SERIOUS viruses on your machine, you know that?" FUUUUUUUUUUU--

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  2. i got this on my old windows xp computer, it was annoying as hell

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  3. I remember when they first came on the scene in earnest around 2004. I think the generic term for them back then was .32SmitFraud and they were nasty little pieces of malware. Spybot (the best at the time) didn't even make a dent in it. The only way to remove it was put in a bootable utilities disk and scrape it out with a specially designed application from Stinger. Thankfully nowadays we have Malwarebytes. But these programs are definitely a bane to novice users...

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  4. i think they are lame and i feel sorry for those they trick... in a way ;)

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  5. my dad got a virus by clicking on malware on his laptop that said he has a virus. kind of like two piers, a paradox. so I fixed in and now he is ultra paranoid.

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  6. Download Avast. Its free and its awesome.

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  7. I honestly just us MSE and Malewarebytes and Super antispyware. but you see i try to get viruses to find out different ways to remove them at my job and this is the first one i have ever had try to infect me and i do some questionable shit on my computer haha.

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  8. Malewarebytes usually finds and destroys everything.

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  9. AVAST! is awesome. But I really think those stupid "YOU GOT VIRUS" malware things are so wrong. I mean it seriously exploits those who aren't tech saavvy, like...my mum.

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  10. Someonehow my sister was able to install a fake program that looked exactly like AVG 2011. But it was call VirusKill or something. And all it done while scanning was infect everything with virues. It was scary, but we reformatted it and cleaned everything out.

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