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Subject: HELP, ALOT OF VIRUS FOUND ON COMPUTER.
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need urgent help, my antivirus just detect about a dozen or more virus, it even infected the antivirus files. any way to get rid of them? or do you know any good free antivirus i can download from the internet?

  • 01.29.2005 8:20 AM PDT

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AVG is good, and free.

McAfee is better, and has a 15 day trial.

Stay off the pr0n. ;)

  • 01.29.2005 8:24 AM PDT
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Try this program. Its a downloadable program Macafee provides called Stinger. It's free and it will scan your computer and should get rid of the viruses for you. I personally prefer Norton but they do not have something like this. Just keep your antivirus stuff up to date from now on, I suggest Norton.

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  • 01.29.2005 8:25 AM PDT
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And try SpyBot this will get rid of any spyware or adware that is on your computer. This is a free program as well.

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  • 01.29.2005 8:26 AM PDT

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Well, Norton has a lot of issues with exploitability. Also, Norton sees a lot of AdWare as virii.

Get AdAware and remove all your adware, then run your AV again, you may find the problems solved.

  • 01.29.2005 8:28 AM PDT

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SpyBot S&D works a tad better than AdAware, but the AdAware is much easier to use effectively. Both are great, but don't run them at the same time.

  • 01.29.2005 8:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Well, Norton has a lot of issues with exploitability. Also, Norton sees a lot of AdWare as virii.

Get AdAware and remove all your adware, then run your AV again, you may find the problems solved.


Really? I didn't know that. Oh well, I still prefer Norton Antivirus.

  • 01.29.2005 8:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
SpyBot S&D works a tad better than AdAware, but the AdAware is much easier to use effectively. Both are great, but don't run them at the same time.


Yeah, one of my friends tried that and also tried loading both Macafee and Norton on his computer, it wasn't pretty.

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  • 01.29.2005 8:33 AM PDT
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I had 22 viruses on my computer =0

But now its alllll better.

  • 01.29.2005 8:35 AM PDT
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How do you people get that many viruses, tell me, I'm curious. The most I ever had was 7 when I let my AV subscription lapse for a year.

  • 01.29.2005 8:42 AM PDT
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guys? i don't want to alarm you, but i think spybot S&D is not really an antivirus. a few weeks ago i ask for help with pop-ups and a forum ninja wrote that some antivirus are really adware, spybot S&D was one of the one listed. after i delete that from my systerm, the popups suddenly stopped. and my new antivirus found alot of files infected by a trojan or something like it. i suspect it came from spybot.

  • 01.29.2005 8:51 AM PDT
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Hey this might be a dumb question but were any of the viruses called, "Pluto's Kiss?"

  • 01.29.2005 5:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: apocalypse 343
guys? i don't want to alarm you, but i think spybot S&D is not really an antivirus. a few weeks ago i ask for help with pop-ups and a forum ninja wrote that some antivirus are really adware, spybot S&D was one of the one listed. after i delete that from my systerm, the popups suddenly stopped. and my new antivirus found alot of files infected by a trojan or something like it. i suspect it came from spybot.

*sigh* I want to flame him, I really do.... But I won't.
Spybot S&D isn't an antivirus. It's a program that eliminates adware and spybots on your computer. I am also relativly sure that Spybot was not responsible for the trojan unless you downloaded it from a crappy site.

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  • 01.29.2005 5:41 PM PDT
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Just follow these three easy steps:
Step 1: Take sledgehammer.
Step 2: Walk up to computer.
Step 3: Smash computer until satisfied.

  • 01.29.2005 6:27 PM PDT

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Spybot: S & D is not spyware. Sony installed it in my VAIO in the factory. No matter how bastardly Sony is, they don't install spyware into a computer. The only spyware I've ever had installed on my computers from a factory was a Microsoft XP.

  • 01.29.2005 7:25 PM PDT