Thread: malaware question

Rusha, you can do what I did, get a virus off facebook which wiped everything off my laptop therefore I had to reformat. :(

I just did the mawarebytes scan last night after reading this thread and it came up with 256 infections.

Then I did another full PC virus scan and it came up with over 100 infections.

Originally Posted by soulweaver

spybot and programs similar actually have malware in side the program themselves.
You need a good anti-virus program like norton or symantec etc and if they don't get rid of it, then you shouldn't use third party stuff like spybot.
A computer should be wiped and reloaded every 6mths for best performance. Best way to get rid of viruses.
You use spybot it might stop the pop ups for now, but it doesn't actually remove them from the computer, traces are still there and the performance of the computer will slow over time.

I strongly disagree with you, sorry mate.
Spybot s&d controls changes in the reg and startup etc etc
Norton is doesn't pick up anything! From my experiance, and others.

My recommendation would be AVG or anti-vir
Both completely free, and good protection.


THOUGH! Any software will not 100% protect you.
Be smart on what you download, and what pages you visit (there are backdoor exploits). Even legit popular websites get infected and it goes undetected while some get infected..

So my pick is
Avg or antivir for anti-virus
Zonealarm for firewall
CC cleaner for cleaning..

avg is my choice of antivirus,its stable and doesnt take 10 years to search,

norton is the most memory wasting antivirus out,

rush,if you reformat go for windows 7,heard nothing but good news on it and very stable,

Originally Posted by Jaiman

I strongly disagree with you, sorry mate.
Spybot s&d controls changes in the reg and startup etc etc
Norton is doesn't pick up anything! From my experiance, and others.

My recommendation would be AVG or anti-vir
Both completely free, and good protection.


THOUGH! Any software will not 100% protect you.
Be smart on what you download, and what pages you visit (there are backdoor exploits). Even legit popular websites get infected and it goes undetected while some get infected..

So my pick is
Avg or antivir for anti-virus
Zonealarm for firewall
CC cleaner for cleaning..

We have done testing on all these free programs as we had customers using DVR (digital video recorders) in the field and idiots, lets call them customers used teh DVR as a normal machine and then end3ed up with viruses and malware on the dvr which shuts down whole security system.

if you right down the strings where the malware is located in regedit, then load spybot or something like that, it stops the pop up but you can stil search and find some of those strings. With some if you don't turn off system restore the malware returns.

I agree that AVG is probably the best of the free software. Just couldn't think of it's name in my last post.
If you load spybot, and then load another anti-spy software, they actually detect each over as malware.

i actually use symantec corporite edition. I haven't had a virus or malware in 3 yrs that has't either been detected and deleted, or i simply just haven't got a virus.

The best advice to any pc user is this.

Do Not open an email you don't know where it has come from
When forwarding an email make sure all past reciepients are deleted so that viruses on other machines can't foward themselves to past reciepients.
Know the sites you are visiting, and don't visit sites that will have potential to harm your machine. i.e porn sites.
And banks/paypal/ebay never send emails to get details.


If i need something that I know is in a dodgy place i have a machine for that purpose, even then symantec has stopped any issues on that machine as well. If you don;t have a second machine, borrow a friends ;)

what do you do for work SW

Now, Professional Photographer.
Before, I worked in CCTV (closed circuit television) We were suppliers for installers to put in security systems. We supplied myer/crown casino, kmart all those sorts of places plus small buisness as well. We also did covert security, cameras in smoke detectors, coke cans, eye of a dummy's head, all sorts of wonderful places.

And we supplied DVR's as well to record all the footage, as well as having to get footage off dvr's that police needed and stuff like that.

My old man is a computer engineer has been for about 35 years now, so I learnt most of my stuff from him, I don't recall a time in my house growing up where we didn't have a computer, dating back to the early apple. I loved the apple 2E :)

thats what i do now.

I LOVED the IIe LOL...only apple i liked!!

Funnily enough, I sat in on a talk at work today about cyber safety by the manager of IT security. As they say 'ignorance is bliss'. Certainly opened my eyes and if I had kids, I'd be watching them like a hawk while on the internet.

They will always find a way to speak to randoms... lol
Hopefully they learn young

My girls, 6 & 8, use the computer a bit. They have a folder on the desktop with shortcuts to their favorite sites and they have never veered off anywhere else. My eldest has asked me to look for things for her and she tells me to "just Google it Dad".

I used Apple IIe in high school as well. All we ever really did was stupid things like
10 blah blah blah
20 goto 10
run

it would then write all over the screen.......

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

I have MSN and Facebook but I don't let the kids near it.

you did programming in basic in school rusha? nice!

Imagine this. We didnt even have computers at school when i was at school. We got some strange machine in year ten but noone had a clue what to do with it.

Rusha, I read somewhere in an ancient history book that back in the olden days when you were at school, they had these old fangled contraptions prior to computers....I think they were called typewriters??



I'm off to hide now before Rusha slaps me into next week.....lol

I saw one of the original computers, was the size of a lounge room and was capable of doing basic calculations. Like an oversized calculator really. The 286 was more powerful :P