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How many of you have ever had a virus?

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CPORonin

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I was just browsing around in various forums, and in a few noticed people arguing which Anti-virus application is best.

I myself have never had an encounter with one. I have not and probably never will use an Anti-viral application. Back in 1996 when I bought my first PC(HP Pavilion 8240)pre-loaded with Windows 95b and MacAfee virus scan... I of course being new to the computer world and the internet, was scared to death of the idea of my system being taken over or damaged by a virus.

I have learned alot since then, and take many a pre-caution to avoid 'questionable' files of any kind. I won't list the methods used as it would take awhile, and I am sure most of you know pretty well about how to avoid them anyway. Aside from having a multi-user or basically unsecured machine to justify the use and annoyance of said software... Why would most of you bother?

Mainly I am just curious as to how many people here have had one(if any)and what was the result or fix?
 
I've had a few of them before (Stealth C, Anti-CMOS A, and El Vira namely). It's always good to have antivirus running regardless.
 
I got one back in the 486 days when I haven't been updating the virus scanner as often as I should. Now, I did get one as an e-mail attatchment from someone that I don't even know! But the scanner picked it up when I the mail came through so I erased it without even reading it!! I guess it's good practice to have it running though. Better safe than sorry ^^
 
The virus worthy of mention was back in `94, it was the Tai-pei virus (I forget what variant), it trashed the hard drive and MBR, requiring a complete LLF. Since then, there were a couple of instances where floppies had Bloodhound virii, but nothing lethal. I run a scanner just in case though.
 
I got from my brother when I had my 386 -16MHZ called "4096" Pain in the ars to get rid of


AUsm
 
hahaha yesterday installed norton and upon initial scan..found 280 viruses!
no joke..if i had done a screen shot that miiight have been fun...i just formatted it...lost about 6 gigs of mp3s and mpegs...🙁
 
Back on my old 486, I had two viruses, the Monkey and AntiExec. Lousy friend gave them to me when he lent me a shareware game. Those were the days 😉

--Mark
 
I had one of the Win95.CIH strands....I've had a few emails come in with it.

I don't see the harm in keeping a scanner running.
NAV auto updates itself twice a month, takes about 2 minutes and sometimes a reboot. Other than that I don't even notice it.

It's not like it uses a great deal of system resources.
 
I have never had a virus but I've been hacked/cracked big time before. Therefore I don't even bother to run any antivirus but I am more concern about getting hacked. Once I was using telnet to access school/public library, somehow a cracker got a hold of the pin and used it to check out over $500 worth of video tapes.
 
I agree with Coke..

I haven't got one yet nor do I run any anti-virus programs.
My pc was hacked into while a hacker's site... How self-fulling.. I had to rebuild my pc from scratch after that.

I only accpet "stuff" from reliable sources.
 
never personally got it (because I am smart enough ? hehe..) but saw it many times on other machines that I've worked on. Definitely a terrible thing to have 🙁 On some machine it is irrecurable ... but working on machine with virus is fun and challenging... Frustrating of course if you lose the battle and have to reformat 🙂

err
 
You obviously never need to recieve business files from people, like Word docs you HAVE to open from your boss (including the macros), or other such stuff. I have gotten about 5 or 6 warnings the past year alone.
 
While many good ones are available for sale, a free one for Win9x and Win2k is available AVG Personal, at http://www.grisoft.com It is ICSA Certified and rates high in detection rates. And did I mention it was free?

I use Innoculate IT, it was free until last week, now discontinued 🙁 but they will still update it until I switch OS's.
 
subseven.. :| I think I still have it :|

Don't ever let boarders that live in your house touch your computer.
 
I had one once. My machine was acting strange and I couldn't figure it out so I just formatted it and reinstalled the OS. About two days later I got an email form a friend who apoligized for sending it to me. Seems McAfee didn't pick it up but he had also sent the file to his brother who was using Norton's and it did. I now use Norton's w/o crashguard.
 
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