Damn Trojans and Viruses (Again!)

[Malin_Bronzebringer]

OMG that Avast prog is awesome!! it's picked up 82 viruses that neither Norton, McAffe, AVG or online virus scans couldn't....... :shock:

 

And all of those were fully updated!! It kinda scares me how crap Norton really is.......and I know fine well the viruses it finds are real as I researched them all and some had file names like "whore humpin a tramp" "CloneCd Keygen" I don't use CloneCD.....

[Malin_Bronzebringer]

Oh and btw thnx to Killerlamb for recommending it you can find it at www.download.com and just type in Avast

[Killerlamb]

Yeah, it rocks. ROCKS LIKE A FOX!

[Selecter]

I can do that too

 

print ("82 viruses found");

 

[[SimIsmY]]

It didn't find any viruses for me, but whenever I restart my computer, the homepage is changed to some search page. I tried updating the virus definitions and running ad-aware but its still doing it.

[Guest Toyminator]

"]It didn't find any viruses for me, but whenever I restart my computer, the homepage is changed to some search page. I tried updating the virus definitions and running ad-aware but its still doing it.

Yup I got all that "My Search Now" shit to, damn that sucks

[Wytter]

Good thing there's an alternative. Using mozilla/firefox as a browser prevents the installation of spyware programs on your computer through the browser.

 

www.mozilla.org

[Selecter]

*agrees with Wytter*

 

The next step to get rid of viruses - install linux (gentoo.org) :wink:

[Wytter]

*agrees with Wytter*

 

The next step to get rid of viruses - install linux (gentoo.org)  :wink:

You have to crawl before you can walk ;-)

[Selecter]

Linux newbies usually start to hate linux because of junk distributions like Mandrake, Redhat, Suse. With gentoo they will get exp and love to linux.

[Wytter]

Still I would not recommend Gentoo to everyone.

People need to be willing to become confident with the command line before starting. A few of my friends have tried Gentoo and even with my council they've gone back to Mandrake and SuSE. I'd still recommend Mandrake to a newbie as an appetizer - but most people won't know the power of GNU/Linux untill they try a good dist like Gentoo, Debian, Slack or even try making their own LFS :-)