Virus warning from our 'puter guy...

[slodave]

I can, but when I get back home tomorrow evening.

[J P Stein]

If you opened any of their pop-ups I can't help.
Once I got the pop-ups I couldn't do much of anything even in safe mode....except...
If you have Vista, hit the start icon on the bottom left.
Go to backup & restore system.
Follow the instructions that come up.
I got nailed on Dec 26 (Merry Christmas MFer) but restored the system to Dec 1.
It apparently buried the SOB. It takes a couple hours to run.
Good luck.

[Joe Bob]

It's that time of the year again....my subscription for my Anti Virus is up.

Norton and Mac Affee suck so bad that I would buy a MM motor first.

Trend has been relaible but this last year....it sucks too.

What's the buzz on the better all around protection?

The freebies don't do the job either......

[daepp]

It got past our eset nod 32 and infected our win 7 machine

[J P Stein]

I just got nailed again. I had downloaded anti-malware in the interim and the bug went right through it. The nasty SOB is agile. Re-did the restore bit and it was sitting on it.......s***. I was able to get around it tho & do the restore.....I dunno exactly how tho as Paul said, I'm computer illiterate also.....but stubborn.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

What's the buzz on the better all around protection?

umm, a Mac?

[Joe Bob]

Knew that was coming.....I once gave a thumb drive to some MAC wanker, he downloaded some files and it had a virus on it when I uploaded the files on my laptop......he laughed until I backhanded his ass....I also told his boss I didn't think it was funny.

Zeke, going to the same porn site again?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

It's that time of the year again....my subscription for my Anti Virus is up.

Norton and Mac Affee suck so bad that I would buy a MM motor first.

Trend has been relaible but this last year....it sucks too.

What's the buzz on the better all around protection?

The freebies don't do the job either......

Microsoft's free stuff seems to work pretty well.

Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Antivirus for Windows

I've converted from Trend Micro to this stuff including my wife and mother. I also have them using Firefox instead of IE.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by nostatic

umm, a Mac?

uh huh...

OS X Lion Includes Serious New Security Vulnerability | MacTrast

OS X

Apple OS X Vulnerability: Advanced Persistent Attacks - Security - Vulnerabilities and threats - Informationweek

Mac OS X security myth exposed - Techworld.com

Researcher Rates Mac OS X Vulnerability 'High' - Dark Reading

AppleInsider | Security firm warns of Java vulnerability in Mac OS X

Mac OS X Lion Password Vulnerability: Sleep Mode - Security - Vulnerabilities and threats - Informationweek

[nostatic]

I read those, but have yet to know anyone who has had problems with any of them. And I know a *lot* of Mac users. Most of it is FUD (notice who reports them - companies that make "anti-virus" software). Viruses and malware on the windows side however are as common as stupid comments from politicians.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by masraum

Mac OS X security myth exposed - Techworld.com

Yeah, that 2004 article is certainly up-to-speed on the current state of things

[azasadny]

Timely thread as I just cleaned this piece of malware from my father's PC last night. He had everything patched and up-to-date and MSE was updated and running, but the malware got past it. Fortunately, we used a restore point from the day before and that cleaned it up. I then manually updated MSE and updated it and it found the malware and cleaned it up. What a mess that could have been!!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by nostatic

Yeah, that 2004 article is certainly up-to-speed on the current state of things

I was hoping that you wouldn't notice the date on that one. I did find try to put the articles from 2011 at the top of the list.

I think the key isn't that OSX is completely secure and Windows is Swiss cheese. I think the important point to remember is that if you want to catch as many folks as possible you target the biggest group which would be Windows users that use MSIE.

If you want to recruit as many bots as possible to launch attacks, or if you want to phish as many PCs as possible or if you want to wreak as much havoc as possible, you'll attack the most common OS and browser. That's why Windows gets the bad wrap, because more folks use it so more folks target it.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by javadog

Look into running a sandbox. I do this and have had no virus issues since I started. Part of your disc is quarantined and that's where you run a web browswer. Get a virus? Delete the contents of the sandbox and you're done.

Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

JR

I was curious, so I installed this on my quad core Win 7 64bit machine. I'm impressed with how transparent it is. I'm going to play with it some more.

[Joe Bob]

Marketshare.....I always like to tweak the MAC users on that factoid. Crooks don't like MACs, just you Birkenstock wearing poopyheads with uglee toenails.....

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

Marketshare.....I always like to tweak the MAC users on that factoid. Crooks don't like MACs, just you Birkenstock wearing poopyheads with uglee toenails.....

You've really got a way with words and people there fella.

I bet you read that Dale Carnegie book, How To Win Friends and Influence People!

[Joe Bob]

Just having fun with 'static.....

[masraum]

Yeah, I know. I may not have 21677 posts, but I didn't get here yesterday.

[J P Stein]

Originally Posted by azasadny

Timely thread as I just cleaned this piece of malware from my father's PC last night. He had everything patched and up-to-date and MSE was updated and running, but the malware got past it. Fortunately, we used a restore point from the day before and that cleaned it up. I then manually updated MSE and updated it and it found the malware and cleaned it up. What a mess that could have been!!

As I said, the thing is agile. A week ago the restore thing started up right off the bat and ran, this time the normal function was blocked. There just happened to be a "go around" that I stumbled over to make it work. The efinturds that wrote the bug are updating it as we speak it seems....the antivirus folks are sucking wind on getting their products working on it.

[pwd72s]

May there be a special place in hell for people like the "efinturds"...