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Once you are infected by a virus, you should never trust that infected disk again. The virus will generally load itself into memory and start playing games behind your back. Running a virus checker from the infected disk won't always catch the virus, because the virus can do crazy shit at boot that will fool the virus checker.
You need a clean boot disk made from a known clean source. Also, a copy of an anti-virus program that was NOT downloaded by your computer. Because the virus could have corrupted the file as you downloaded it on the infected machine.
Viruses and trojans suck. I wish I could fly to Russia and personally strangle the fuckheads who distribute them. Good luck and good hunting.
Ounce prevention, pound of cure...mackysDecember 5 2010, 04:32:35 UTC
If you don't use it already, I would highly recommend [NoScript.](http://noscript.net/) The web is not a safe place and hasn't been for at least 15 years. It's ridiculous to allow just any old web page to run code on your machine.
Re: Ounce prevention, pound of cure...willow_redDecember 5 2010, 13:51:38 UTC
Heh. I was waiting for you to mention that one. It's a nice idea, but really, how many web sites are out there anymore that *don't* use Java, JavaScript, and/or Flash? Even the VPN login page for my work is Java-based. I ditched cable years ago, so I watch all my TV online, which inevitably requires Flash.
Don't get me wrong; I understand what you're getting at. But mostly I find that sticking to known (or recommended) web sites is pretty safe too. I know exactly where this current problem came from: I was searching for some fairly obscure news, and clicked on the google result too fast. Had I stopped to skim the preview lines, I would have seen that the page was trolling half the keywords in the dictionary. So I did something stupid, and j_b is thankfully going to help me figure out what stupid is going to cost me this time. For now, I cross my fingers.
Re: Ounce prevention, pound of cure...nickhalfasleepDecember 5 2010, 15:42:51 UTC
It's actually easier now to run without java and flash now that iPod/Touch/Phones are out and about, every website knows they must cater to the flashless crowd.
Bleargh. Sorry to hear about this. Sounds like exactly the same thing that my grandfather's machine just got hit with. I tried correcting it with the anti-virus I use, but no luck so far as the av keeps detecting the problem over and over, talked to j_b about some options, but it seems to have vanished since, not that I trust that it's genuinely gone, whatsoever.
I figured, worse comes to worse, I can just burn cd's of the important stuff (mostly pics from the grandfather's digicam and his med list) and format and re-install... problem is that this pc was a gift/used pc from my aunt/uncle's business and they have no idea where the os disk is so... yeah.
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Once you are infected by a virus, you should never trust that infected disk again. The virus will generally load itself into memory and start playing games behind your back. Running a virus checker from the infected disk won't always catch the virus, because the virus can do crazy shit at boot that will fool the virus checker.
You need a clean boot disk made from a known clean source. Also, a copy of an anti-virus program that was NOT downloaded by your computer. Because the virus could have corrupted the file as you downloaded it on the infected machine.
Viruses and trojans suck. I wish I could fly to Russia and personally strangle the fuckheads who distribute them. Good luck and good hunting.
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Don't get me wrong; I understand what you're getting at. But mostly I find that sticking to known (or recommended) web sites is pretty safe too. I know exactly where this current problem came from: I was searching for some fairly obscure news, and clicked on the google result too fast. Had I stopped to skim the preview lines, I would have seen that the page was trolling half the keywords in the dictionary. So I did something stupid, and j_b is thankfully going to help me figure out what stupid is going to cost me this time. For now, I cross my fingers.
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I figured, worse comes to worse, I can just burn cd's of the important stuff (mostly pics from the grandfather's digicam and his med list) and format and re-install... problem is that this pc was a gift/used pc from my aunt/uncle's business and they have no idea where the os disk is so... yeah.
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