Just got rid of a damn virus!

[Jim Oaks]

I was surfing the net doing research yesterday, clicked on a link in a search engine and got a virus from the page it sent me to. I had to save what I could and reboot. If you sent me an email in the last 48 hours and didn't get a reply, email me again.

Someone was having problems registering and I don't know who it was.

 

[almostclueless]

Were you by chance using IE? it and outlook are IMO two of the biggest net security flaws there are, regardless of how many dozens of patches they release.

 

[Jspafford]

I got a NASTY virus a couple years back. I was cruzin the net and a icon popped up on the bottom taskbar by the clock saying my virus scanner had found a problem..

A couple clicks later I had a page up saying to download this software to remove it. Hrm.. I downloaded it. OUCH. Three days later and half bald I got it removed.

 

[BobR]

Were you by chance using IE? it and outlook are IMO two of the biggest net security flaws there are, regardless of how many dozens of patches they release.

I can't disagree though the reason is only because they are targeted by the hackers because its the most common.



Bob

 

[LittleBigFoot]

Anyone use Norton Ghost?

I don't have very up to date virus protection, but I have my comp set up the way I like it and backed up on the D drive. Any time I get a virus, or unwanted programs pretending like I have a virus and trying to have me pay 35 bucks to download their own software, or if I try an unstable program, I just restore it from the D drive and I'm rollin again.

I don't know if this is the standard method, so I hope I'm not preachin to the choir



Adam

 

[BLOODBANE]

Just a few weeks ago I lost everything on my old comp. from a virus. 2 years worth of pics(mainly the kids and my trail runs) If I could catch those fools that put the virus's out there, they wouldn't have fingers left to type on the computer!!!

 

[almostclueless]

I can't disagree though the reason is only because they are targeted by the hackers because its the most common.



Bob

bingo.

 

[jubangy]

One ting that works without taxing your system is using opendns. It keeps alot of the sites like that at bay so you never get to them. Between that and Kaspersky internet security I can't remember the last time I had any webpage viruses.

And Norton Ghost is ok, but I lean more towards Acronis as it seems to work better for me and is pretty easy for the average user to figure out. I don't know if ghost lets you do it but Acronis lets you set it up like Windows system restore but in much more depth. It takes less then 10 minutes to reload from the image and just continue where you left off surfing.