Computer Viruses

10 PRINT "TOM IS ACE"
20 GOTO 10

So no. What virus was it?

I learnt that from a book about programming which taught via the medium of DINOSAURS. One was called Spike. They were really funny dinosaurs. They went sunbathing on the beach and wore hankies on their head! Ha! Ha!

Anyway, thankfully I've only ever suffered from one virus to date, and I caught it before it did any damage. Hence, I've never had the desire to actually create a virus, and think it's irresponsible because you end up hurting people you don't even know.

This webpage may help if you are among the afflicted of said kakworm:

http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp? VName=VBS_KAKWORM.B

What do you people have 24Gb of that needs to be scanned? I guess its safer that way, to make sure nothing gets missed, but if its mostly mp3s you're wasting your time.

Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks

then you need to clean your machine, otherwise your hard drive is toast on October 16th.

If people wouldn't run stuff they knew nothing about, or would pay attention to the sort of thing Tom mentioned, viruses would become a non-issue. I've never needed a virus scanner, and never had a virus. The problem is in the user, and blaming Microsoft is like blaming Ford when your car runs out of gas.

then you need to clean your machine, otherwise your hard drive is toast on October 16th.

Dave M - I got that email but didn't open the attachment because I am not a complete idiot. I assumed this meant that I didn't have to worry about cleaning my machine. Are you telling me something different?

Ok, I'm worn out now...

But the latter doesn't involve opening the file, does it? And I did have such unprotected shares on my LAN, as many other users do. Besides, it never hurts to be careful, and the FixSirc.exe file takes about two minutes to run.

i fucking hate the internet security 2010 virus. tonight i got it for the second time. after the first time, in november, i've done nothing risky, haven't downloaded jack, and still, a couple hours ago, kapow. had to spend $90 having mcafee remotely remove it. anyways, anyone know anything about this virus?

Ha ha, 24 gb hard drive.

What is this virus?

http://www.apple.com

Are you using Internet Explorer? I spent this morning cleaning the System Security malware (which is similar, installs automatically from infected websites if you are using IE) off my mom's pc.

anyways a quick google brings this:

http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/remove-internet-security-2010-removal-guide-t16909.htm

i'm running firefox through internet explorer. thanks guys for the tips. though malwarebytes found the virus, it couldn't remove it upon rebooting, which is why i ended up paying mcafee $90 to do that for me. god i hate viruses. next computer i get is for sure gonna be a mac

This link tells you why you don't reboot with malwarebytes to get rid of this one.

"i'm running firefox through internet explorer."

How exactly do you do that? No wonder you got a virus.

well i'm using firefox. i thought firefox runs through internet explorer, no? (and yes, ignorance like this is conducive to catching viruses.) jaq, thanks for the link! but when i ran malwarebytes, before calling mcafee, i had gotten to what would be step 15 on the link, and malwarebytes told me it couldn't remove the virus without shutting down. maybe the internet security 2010 has gotten smarter? either way what a fucking pain in the ass

Never pay for stuff like that. AVG Free is pretty good and could have done it for nothing. Firefox is separate from IE, which is why it is more recommended.

except when i go there, i get this
http://c.ppcxml.net/?d=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50ac80723bee

xp no, Firefox and Internet Explorer are two completely different products by different companies, etc., independent of each other. Think of them as Coke and Pepsi.

the timing
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/technology/internet/18defend.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
i have another question, if anyone knows -- what does malwarebytes protection module do? is it any good?

It's an anti-spyware anti-virus product that's as good as everything else out there. Just like the rest, you need to make sure it's updated frequently and that you run full scans on a regular basis.

Cleaning up my friends computer which got hit with this. Now, it won't connect to Windows Update. I keep getting a Error number: 0x80072EFF thru Explorer. I can't even manually d/l the updates, since it's either blocking connection or timing otu from the server.