Virus definitions 7/19/97

[tm37]

My folks are out from california and My brought the comp I bulit them a few years back. SHe wanted me to set-up her new digital camera. THey have a cable modem and they run it through Usb so I dropped in a netcard, set that up got it running on my net. THen I check to insure her antivirus is uptp date. I had sent her a OEM copy of Systemworks 2K1 and told her to install it seeing as last time I was out all she has was NAV 95 and her internet was down. She was running that old NAV95 and her definitions were 5 years old!:Q Norton 2K1 installing as we speak. I am going to set it to auto live update to HOPEFULLY prevent this from occuring again.

 

[hevnsnt]

good story

 

[tm37]

Couldn't get NAV 95 to uninstall and Norton 2K1 wouldn't copy over. Had to manually delete and remove the reg keys. Damn 10 minute job is gonna take an hour or more

 

[notfred]

My virus definoins are older than that. They're infinitely old! I don't run a virus checker. What's the phrase? "OMG OEIEIE!!! NOOOOOOOOO!" something like that.

Anyway, no viruses yet.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: notfred
My virus definoins are older than that. They're infinitely old! I don't run a virus checker. What's the phrase? "OMG OEIEIE!!! NOOOOOOOOO!" something like that.

Anyway, no viruses yet.

Well not that you know of!

Just close your eyes if you didn't see it it didn't happen.

I haven't had an alert in I don't know how long. My wife gets them about once a month.

 

[Moonbeam]

I didn't have any viruses either till I read a post about whether you use a virus checker or firewall and I didn't and I also read a warning by Harvey that it wasn't so great an idea. I installed virus and then I found I did have one and have gotten, or rather been prevented from getting several more. Also got a back door Trojan on a rebuild prior to protecting it. If you download, you are vulnerable.

 

[Spooner]

If you download, you are vulnerable

anyone else hear that line from Field of Dreams here?

"If you build it, they will come"

 

[Amused]

I hadn't used an AV since before 1996. I would run online V checkers every once in a while and know I'd never been infected.

But a few weeks ago, my GF's mom got the computer I built her infected with "backdoor autoupder." She had also infected a bunch of other folks. I had gotten a file from her that I didn't download (I only download image, movie and sound files from people).

However, cleaning all that up was enough to scare me into installing AVs on all my computers for the first time in a long time. All are clean, of course, but I guess I just feel safer now

Plus, having them run in the background on fast computers today running 2K or XP isn't nearly as bad as it was when I had 95 and much less powerful computers.

 

[Brutuskend]

I had a visus checker on my XP Pro OS but not my 98se install.

I just put Norton internet security on 98 in the last week or so and guess what? My "uninfected" system WAS infected.

Just because everything seems to be working OK doesn't mean your clean!!

 

[AmigaMan]

My mother-in-law had Norton on her machine but her defs were about a year old. I also had disabled auto-update because she was on 33.6 and her comp is slow anyways. Well she had klez on it so I unuinstalled Norton, ran their kelz remover, and installed AVG. She's too computer illiterate to update the defs herself, so I guess I'll have to do that for her everytime we go visit. It's like a ritual I guess...sigh...

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I had a visus checker on my XP Pro OS but not my 98se install.

I just put Norton internet security on 98 in the last week or so and guess what? My "uninfected" system WAS infected.

Just because everything seems to be working OK doesn't mean your clean!!

Had you ever run Norton's online virus checker?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan
My mother-in-law had Norton on her machine but her defs were about a year old. I also had disabled auto-update because she was on 33.6 and her comp is slow anyways. Well she had klez on it so I unuinstalled Norton, ran their kelz remover, and installed AVG. She's too computer illiterate to update the defs herself, so I guess I'll have to do that for her everytime we go visit. It's like a ritual I guess...sigh...

LOL. I do that kind of thing for most of my GF's huge family. Each time we visit a family, I update their AVs, run them, clean up their computer, defrag, etc...

Sometimes it sucks being the family computer geek

 

[Brutuskend]

Had you ever run Norton's online virus checker?

Hummm I may have long ago, but if I have I don't remember doing so.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Had you ever run Norton's online virus checker?

Hummm I may have long ago, but if I have I don't remember doing so.

It works. That's how I knew my systems were clean before I installed Norton for the first time since 96.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: notfred
My virus definoins are older than that. They're infinitely old! I don't run a virus checker. What's the phrase? "OMG OEIEIE!!! NOOOOOOOOO!" something like that.

Anyway, no viruses yet.

And while you are at it, download the free Ad-aware tool and get rid off all those spyware proggies lurking in your PC.

 

[Moonbeam]

I been playing with SpyBotSD instead of adware.

 

[Miramonti]

When I built my moms I told her how to update them. That was 2 years ago and am very curious now if she has at all...

 

[notfred]

If I was infected w/ some virus that has no effects and is essentially invisible, why would it bother me?

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: notfred
If I was infected w/ some virus that has no effects and is essentially invisible, why would it bother me?

Because if it was something like KLEZ, you would be the Typhoid Mary of the Internet to everyone in your address book. :disgust:

Anyone who goes online without a currently updated AV program is dumber than a stone.