Virus that stopped anti virus exe.

timmy222

timmy222

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Just hell a hell of a battle to remove a strange virus that stopped you going to any anti virus sites.
As soon as you clicked onto download I.E would shut down.
Tried using a avg install from a usb stick but whatever it was it would hide the .exe file for the anti virus installer.
Anyhow I got around it by using goole chrome to download avg and this cured it.
It would seem it was somehow linked to internet explorer 8, used another browser and it worked.
Hope this may help somebody one day.

ATB Tim.
 
Agreed on the AV comment, however, there is always one that slips through.

Get AV and keep it updated as often as poss, this will drastically reduce the possibility of this happening again :)
 
Ascendancy said:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...q=IE+security+vulnerability&btnG=Search&meta=

Take your pick.
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I'm sorry but what does that prove exactly? I can do the exact same thing for say Mozilla Firefox. I'm quite shocked that people on this forum are making such statements purely based on the amount of results Google comes back with. It's hardly a reliable way to judge how secure a particular browser is. I think you're, as are a lot of people, stuck in the past where older versions of Internet Explorer where maybe not quite as secure as other browsers.

On Windows Vista and Windows 7, Internet Explorer runs in a mode called protected mode which means it runs as a low privilege process. If the browser does get hijacked and allows for the attacker to run arbitrary code, that piece of code is extremely restricted in what it can do as opposed to Mozilla Firefox which runs as a medium integrity process so yes, Internet Explorer is potentially more securer than any other browser by default. Internet Explorer defiantly has a better means of mitigating against attacks. Even on Windows XP, it's debatable at which is securer.
 
Fire Wizard said:
On Windows Vista and Windows 7, Internet Explorer runs in a mode called protected mode which means it runs as a low privilege process. If the browser does get hijacked and allows for the attacker to run arbitrary code, that piece of code is extremely restricted in what it can do as opposed to Mozilla Firefox which runs as a medium integrity process so yes, Internet Explorer is potentially more securer than any other browser by default. On Windows XP, it's debatable at which is securer.
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You can run Firefox as a low integrity process though.
 
Ascendancy said:
You can run Firefox as a low integrity process though.
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Indeed you can. In fact, I do exactly that. However, it doesn't run as a low integrity process by default and I have a feeling that for maybe users that aren't as computer literate and just want to use the out of the box configuration, you would recommend a different browser anyway because Internet Explorer is apparently very in-secure.

The bit I am more concerned about though is that you're posting statements like the one below purely by typing in "Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities" into Google and then going by the amount of results Google brings back. That truly is such an unreliable way to judge how secure a particular browser is. It's an unreliable way to judge anything.

Ascendancy said:
Haha, you were using IE and no AV.
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