Out of the blue my firefox icon next to the start bar went odd. When I clicked on it my computer would shut down, I had a look at the properties and instead of running firefox.exe the shortcut would run a program in system 32 that would shut the PC down. I bought some antivirus not as shite as AVG and killed that bugger!
Worst computer virus you ever got.
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it was when i got my first PC and after that getting my broadband connection. After 7 days my Pc started acting rly slow. i didnt have an anti virus at that time so when a friend came to check and then instaled some program i had more than 15,000 worms and hundreds of other stuff on my PC i reckon that is even worse than getting 1 strong virus.
My PC was on repair for days xD
After that ive always kept an up to date security program and never got in any serious trouble :>
p.p: id it me or hackers and viruses were more active couple of years ago? Or the anti-virus programs are just better now?
My PC was on repair for days xD
After that ive always kept an up to date security program and never got in any serious trouble :>
p.p: id it me or hackers and viruses were more active couple of years ago? Or the anti-virus programs are just better now?
It's been a while since I got one, going on 2-3 years I think. I guess that means I browse my porn at secure sites. But then again, I don't use a anti-virus software so I wouldn't know unless it started doing something radical.
Worst virus I've had though... Probably the one that made some sort of system32 warning pop up when you were playing a game. Not sure if that's a virus though, never did anything other than those warnings, which didn't interrupt the game. You just had to close 200 or so of those warning windows when you finnished playing.
Worst virus I've had though... Probably the one that made some sort of system32 warning pop up when you were playing a game. Not sure if that's a virus though, never did anything other than those warnings, which didn't interrupt the game. You just had to close 200 or so of those warning windows when you finnished playing.
I think the time you're thinking of was when computers were first starting to become really mainstream, and companies were deploying them en-masse without really investing in Internet security (like AV's and Internet filters). During that time, a lot of users didn't know that you shouldn't click links in suspicious e-mails or reply to a message from an "administrator" asking for your username and password.Azmael Silverlance said:
Most people are just a lot more aware of the threat nowadays, and are taking better precautions.
Damn near got locked out of my computer by a virus that gets in through by clicking on a link your friend sends you an IM. Not know about the virus, I clicked the link, told my friend, and he went "oh shit, you got a virus." Sure enough, my im started sending my friends links without me knowing. We managed to make an administrator account on which we could use one of our restore dates.
My friend got the oddest I had ever heard of. It streamed British talk radio into his computer, and there was no task or operation he could close. He could only turn of the sound. After about a week a window finally opened.
My friend got the oddest I had ever heard of. It streamed British talk radio into his computer, and there was no task or operation he could close. He could only turn of the sound. After about a week a window finally opened.
Worst Virus?
Trojan.
Yes that's it. My AV just rocks that much. I have a few pieces of malware and spyware though...
Trojan.
Yes that's it. My AV just rocks that much. I have a few pieces of malware and spyware though...
Haha, i work at a university in the Audio-visual department.
Somehow, our evening supervisor managed to download some russian super-virus that turned our main booking computer into some kind of server, and it began appropriating the computers of everyone who was on our network and had them doing....SOMETHING... no one ever figured out what it was.. Our IT girl picked up on the whole thing fairly quickly and locked the main booking computer off from the rest of the network. It took her 2 days to rebuild the PC from the ground up.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and for some iteration of the same virus to develop on one of the computers it was controlling.
Somehow, our evening supervisor managed to download some russian super-virus that turned our main booking computer into some kind of server, and it began appropriating the computers of everyone who was on our network and had them doing....SOMETHING... no one ever figured out what it was.. Our IT girl picked up on the whole thing fairly quickly and locked the main booking computer off from the rest of the network. It took her 2 days to rebuild the PC from the ground up.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and for some iteration of the same virus to develop on one of the computers it was controlling.
My worst was some annoying combined thing (hard to classify) that I had to remove partly manually. It slowed down the PC a bit, gave me some random ad pop-ups, fucked up the Task Manager pretty bad, and rebuilt itself after AV removal.
Other than that I haven't had anything. AVG+ZoneAlarm+Spybot+Opera has worked pretty well for me.
Other than that I haven't had anything. AVG+ZoneAlarm+Spybot+Opera has worked pretty well for me.
I had something similar to this. It would start up, but it would run real slow, then it would just stop. I had to send it back to the shop and get it replaced, luckily the warranty was still valid.Cargando said: