Virus woes

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I'm pretty fed-up right about now - to the point I'm contemplating buying a mac lol

I have had avg and malware bytes on my recent install of windows 7x64, and in the past I never bothered with either.

I have 4 HDDs, one system 3 storage.

A while back I somehow got the Microsoft virus removal 2011 virus, and thought i'd cleared it. Today I got hit with the zbot.g bank robbery virus and cannot clear it.

It's infecting all of my exe files from games etc on one of my storage HDDs, so now I'm worried even if I reformat I'll still be infected.

Any tips people! Totally hacked off...
 
An Addon capable browser with Adblock Plus , NoScript and Flashblock = a more secure browsing experience... and stay away from google image search.

Check out the thread in here from the dude who has all the infection toolkit links on one page.

Best'o'luck dude.
 
Cheers mate. On a fresh install of 7 now, scanning all drives. Let's see...
 
touch wood i have no viruses now after the scan, even on the "infected" non-OS drives...

we'll see.
 
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I'm pretty fed-up right about now - to the point I'm contemplating buying a mac lol
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Ahem. :p

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18279316

No need to buy a Mac. Just learn how to secure a PC effectively.

1. Standard User for day to day tasks. Only use Admin user for administrative tasks e.g. software installation.

2. If your version of Windows supports it, Software Restriction Policies ( or AppLocker ). Set up a rule so that programs can only launch from c:\Program Files or C:\Windows. So if you're surfing in your Standard User account and the browser downloads a trojan to your hard disk, that trojan cannot launch.


These 2 steps stop most, if not all, malware cold.
 
I'd happily pay. For a decent AV, but am dubious as to how much better they are...

What's the "best"?

It's peculiar really, I never have had AV flag up previously in my... 18 years of PC use. Not seriously anyway.
 
It is actually infecting all your games .exe's or is it just reporting to do so?
If it infects the .exe one would assume the game can't run anymore.

The windows security 2011 is a very irritating mess, rkill followed by malwarebytes tends to oblierate it. Not clicking yes, or killing the entire internet process in task manger usually protects against infection in the first place.
 
Pug said:
I'm pretty fed-up right about now - to the point I'm contemplating buying a mac lol

I have had avg and malware bytes on my recent install of windows 7x64, and in the past I never bothered with either.

I have 4 HDDs, one system 3 storage.

A while back I somehow got the Microsoft virus removal 2011 virus, and thought i'd cleared it. Today I got hit with the zbot.g bank robbery virus and cannot clear it.

It's infecting all of my exe files from games etc on one of my storage HDDs, so now I'm worried even if I reformat I'll still be infected.

Any tips people! Totally hacked off...
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Which browser where you using?
 
I think it wa reporting as infecting them, but when avg tried to fix it it destroyed them and made them unplayable. It can't have infected them as I'm clean now apparently.

Browser was FF 4
 
Bit of a shame, if it had been IE9, ope would have blamed it ;)

MSE is good for a free AV, with malwarebytes installed, and run on demand, keep rkill on the system in case one day you need it, else don't use rkill, just have it available.
If you want to pay for AV then Kaspersky is slow but solid, you can get it free with a barclays bank acc iirc.
 
disabled - kept bugging me (but then thats been the case since Vista, and i'd not had the problem). Perhaps i was just unlucky, tho am using UAC now and its not too invasive in W7...
 
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Yeah likewise. When infected none of the online scans picked it up, but avg did. Now fresh install, avg and none of the online ones are picking
 
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