So I recently had my third battle with Personal Antivirus.
For people that don't know what it is; Its basically a virus that latches itself onto your computer telling you about all these fake security problems and asking you to pay for full version. A scam basically. The only problem is, it crashes your computer. That's right, everything you try to open is blocked the hell out because it is "dangerous"
Now, our first two encounters ended with me having to nuke my entire computer hard drive. Luckily, I beat that mother fucker this time. I killed that ************ good
Simply, I used the "System restore" feature to restore my system to a time before I had that mother fucking virus. So yes.. I FUCKING WIN.
You have no idea how fucking happy I am right now. Last time it took one of my massive Oblivion Mods that I was creating. (Luckily I was able to find a prior version that I published and work from that). But still. FUCK YOU PERSONAL ANTIVIRUS .... SUCK IT.
You may think I'm over reacting, but seriously. You have no idea how much of a pain this thing is!
However, there are some battle wounds. So who ever can, please help. After the reboot, I found myself unable to open some programs that I had downloaded (Like Firefox). Now, I can get them to open but each time it asks me "What do you want to open this with". And each time I click "Open with Firefox" it asks me to download it. Even though I already have it. So I just click cancel and I can browse freely. Can someone tell me how to get this to stop?
And for added discussion, what was the last virus you had to deal with. Or last foe you beat up?
EDIT: I haven't tried reinstalling, mostly because I'd rather not since the file exists anyways. This thing is also effecting things like Paint. So I don't know what to do about that
For people that don't know what it is; Its basically a virus that latches itself onto your computer telling you about all these fake security problems and asking you to pay for full version. A scam basically. The only problem is, it crashes your computer. That's right, everything you try to open is blocked the hell out because it is "dangerous"
Now, our first two encounters ended with me having to nuke my entire computer hard drive. Luckily, I beat that mother fucker this time. I killed that ************ good
Simply, I used the "System restore" feature to restore my system to a time before I had that mother fucking virus. So yes.. I FUCKING WIN.
You have no idea how fucking happy I am right now. Last time it took one of my massive Oblivion Mods that I was creating. (Luckily I was able to find a prior version that I published and work from that). But still. FUCK YOU PERSONAL ANTIVIRUS .... SUCK IT.
You may think I'm over reacting, but seriously. You have no idea how much of a pain this thing is!
However, there are some battle wounds. So who ever can, please help. After the reboot, I found myself unable to open some programs that I had downloaded (Like Firefox). Now, I can get them to open but each time it asks me "What do you want to open this with". And each time I click "Open with Firefox" it asks me to download it. Even though I already have it. So I just click cancel and I can browse freely. Can someone tell me how to get this to stop?
And for added discussion, what was the last virus you had to deal with. Or last foe you beat up?
EDIT: I haven't tried reinstalling, mostly because I'd rather not since the file exists anyways. This thing is also effecting things like Paint. So I don't know what to do about that
