Virus, rendered PC useless.

you can install the raid driver later and it will show the raid 0 array as a second drive, no need to install it during the windows install
 
-Tauren- said:
how do you guys pick these viruses up? just out of interest?
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I'd love to know the answer too. Anyone would think malware was airborne the way some people pick it up.

I haven't had a virus in 12 years of PC ownership, and get this - I've never had a realtime AV installed. And before we start with the "How do you know you don't have a virus?" crap, I occasionally run Hitman or malwarebytes and they've never, ever caught anything.
 
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-Tauren- said:
how do you guys pick these viruses up? just out of interest?
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thats what i want to know? does the big, bad Virus bogeyman come and infect your pc when you're not looking? :p

but honestly, it's been so long since i've had a virus - how do people get infected these days?

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but unlike the guy above me, i DO run realtime AV.
 
Well its all down to stupidity really, my mate was round the night before...and he a ****.
I'm surprised i havn't been banned from the internet with the crap hes done on here :rolleyes:

Although its all good! Found the program Active Undelete, which is the only program out of god knows how many that would detect my raid 0 array. Quick scan and recovered my whole drive to my secondary one.
I tried through dos and linux but no luck, can't say thats my area of speciality.

What software do you recommend? I normally use spyware s&d with avg, although i cant stand the new avg versions. And i have no patience for a firewall..
 
Ratbag said:
I'd love to know the answer too. Anyone would think malware was airborne the way some people pick it up.

I haven't had a virus in 12 years of PC ownership, and get this - I've never had a realtime AV installed. And before we start with the "How do you know you don't have a virus?" crap, I occasionally run Hitman or malwarebytes and they've never, ever caught anything.
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Lots of different programs catch different things. Not one program gets everything.

Also what would happen if you did get infected? not sure what hitman is but unless your paying for malware bytes, it doesnt offer real time protection. Not running av software in this day and age is just foolish.
 
same here, i've not had a virus since i've had this laptop, and thats about 4 years now. malwarebytes does its job well. i dont run real time AV either, and never have done. :p
 
Just know what you have on your computer, what is running and what has been running and the need for any anti-virus is gone. I don't run any either and have not had a virus in years. Too much scaremongering goes around about malicious software.
 
Puppetmaster said:
Lots of different programs catch different things. Not one program gets everything.

Also what would happen if you did get infected? not sure what hitman is but unless your paying for malware bytes, it doesnt offer real time protection. Not running av software in this day and age is just foolish.
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Nope.

I get called on to fix computers which are riddled with malware despite the presence of UAC and, in some instances, multiple AV/anti-malware apps.

After 12 years of virus free computing I'll trust myself not to get caught out. But thanks for your concern.

;)
 
Then all you have to do is download the crack/keygen then tell the anti virus it is safe. Never turn the AV off. thats just asking for trouble.
 
theheyes said:
If you're regularly running cracks or keygens you're probably going to get owned sooner or later anyway.
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if i'm ever in doubt as to the safety of a program, i just run 'em in an XP virtual machine. if the excrement hits the fan, all i do is restore the VM to snapshot and it goes away. :)
 
QwaF said:
Because afaik, sometimes they'll block them from running for whatever reason.
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The only time I've ever heard of this is if it actually is a virus. If your virus guard picks up a virus then you're a fool if you turn it off.
 
SDK^ said:
I've just fix the internet problem.
The virus had changed my Browser Connection settings to a LAN :eek: Changed it to auto detect and it works again :)
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Heh, this just happened to me. I managed to get 'Antivirus Soft' on my pc and it infected everything including my browsers. Loads of fake warnings about infections, loads of boxes appearing saying this and that can't be opened.

I booted into safemode and ran Malwarebytes which is a brilliant app, got me out of trouble twice now. On a quick scan and even without the latest updates, it picked up 3 files of 'rogue antivirus suite' to which I thought "aha, yep, there it is" which it then removed. I also ran CCleaner and did a backup of the registry changes just in case. After booting into normal mode, it had gone, but I couldn't get IE8 or Chrome to connect. Yet I was able to get onto MSN, and was also able to access my email. So at least I knew my connection was fine and that my browsers had obviously been messed up. I reinstalled Chrome but that made no difference. I then did a system restore which fixed the browsers. I googled antivirus soft and saw something about unticking the LAN proxy box in IE connections. So I did a sys restore back to where the problem is and yes, the box had been ticked by this stupid virus. Unticked it and it's all fine now in IE and Chrome. :p

edit: btw, I recommend you still run spybot. It's just picked up Fraud.Sysguard on mine with 4 instances of registry keys and it says avsoft next to them. It says low risk, nevertheless, it's remnants not wanted.
 
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