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Post by Col7777 on Dec 15, 2008 14:55:34 GMT -5
I managed to download a bad virus on Saturday it's name is 'Rapid Anti virus' it masks itself as a virus checker but it is very bad. I tried the usual things to get rid of it but this one is clever. Every time I went on a Internet page to get info it blocked the page, I tried to download malaware and different anti virus programs but each time it blocked them. I couldn't run the malaware program I had and it stopped my anti virus from updating, my anti virus found it and quarantined it but it wouldn't let it delete, then it appeared again and then I got blue screens warning me of it's presence and windows was closing down.
To cut the story short my son-in-law came with some programs but again we failed, so it ended up as a format and now I'm installing stuff again including FS, I was really sick about this, I can't understand the mentality of these morons that write these things.
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Post by Maarten on Dec 15, 2008 15:15:04 GMT -5
Hey Col,
Thanks for warning us. Very sorry to hear about all the problems that virus has caused you. Hadn't heard of it before.
I'm afraid it's senseless even to try to understand what's going through the minds of these guys. They are just a bunch of very sick ignorant skitters, so they are.
Cheers, Maarten
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 15, 2008 15:30:28 GMT -5
Hi,
next time you only need to make a bootable Linux live CD ( Knoppicillin ) with integrated malware and virus scanner to get your PC back to work.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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Post by Col7777 on Dec 15, 2008 16:50:26 GMT -5
Thanks Wolfgang,
I'm downloading it now, I presume it works with Windows XP even though it's a Linux program.
I've got FS loaded now but it's just the basic package, now it needs to be tweaked all over again, bah!
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Dec 15, 2008 18:12:04 GMT -5
Ugh, so sorry to hear that...
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 15, 2008 20:06:31 GMT -5
Hi,
Yes it can handle the windows file structure.
Wolfgang
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Post by Col7777 on Dec 16, 2008 4:28:05 GMT -5
Thanks guys,
I'm slowly getting it all back together, I did lose a few things through this though, I backed most of my stuff up but the odd thing I meant to do later got lost. I have little book I keep passwords and serial/reference numbers in so that came in handy when re-installing the odd program like FSUIPC etc. My son-in-law told me of a program that when everything is up and running good it takes a snapshot so to speak of the hard drive and you can save it on a removable drive for if things like this happen again you can format and just load up the snapshot and it saves all the installing, or something like that anyway.
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Post by Piston Paul on Dec 18, 2008 17:52:40 GMT -5
Col, Good to read you are getting things together again. This is the nightmare of all simmers I guess... I wonder what is the fun of spreading those virusses around. Unbelievable sick minds.... See you up soon. Paul
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Post by Col7777 on Dec 18, 2008 19:04:27 GMT -5
Hi Paul and thank you,
I often wonder do the people who work and write the anti-virus programs write the viruses, just a thought.
Any way, I am up and running again, in one way it is nice to have a good clear out and run a PC with no rubbish on it, some things I lost that I didn't back up (my fault) but some things I am not putting back on as I either hardly or never used them.
On the subject of viruses, I met a guy at work once who admitted he wrote viruses for fun. I had a bit of a row with him about it, he worked for an outside contract company doing some work at the airport, I said I admired him at first as I thought he was good on the computer, but after he told me that, I said I had lost all respect for him, I never spoke to him after that.
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