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Windows 7 - Who Gets More Viruses and Who Gets Through Them
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| 05-20-2010 | #1 |
| | Who Gets More Viruses and Who Gets Through Them Lets see whose computer has been affected by Viruses and Who Resolved it on their OWN.. Be the Daring one to Reply !!!!!!  |
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| 05-20-2010 | #2 |
| | A computer virus on my own home personal computer...probably hasn't happened in the last 4-5 years. Piece of malware or spyware...maybe 1/2 dozen times in the past couple of years. Certainly nothing that I remember the names of. |
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| 05-20-2010 | #3 |
| | I cant remember the last virus that I was infected with its been that long... Malware... caught a fake av scanner once.. |
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| 05-20-2010 | #4 |
| | One of my grand kids downloaded malware about six years ago (XP). ZA caught and blocked it trying to phone home. I cleaned it before it could become established. No infections since. |
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| 05-20-2010 | #5 |
| | I got a virus on my machine last year about this time. It disabled media player most of the way, and wanted me to buy a program to fix it. ComboFix did the trick. |
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| 05-20-2010 | #6 |
| | McAfee has done a fair decent job of keeping my PC's clean for the past half decade. That or I stopped using winamp at around the same time... Never had a virus on my linux boxes  |
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| 05-20-2010 | #7 |
| | Windows 7 = no virus infections; seldom any adware/spyware Vista = no virus infections; various adware/spyware Windows XP = no virus infections; a lot adware/spyware Windows 98 = 1 virus infections which ruined the computer |
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| 05-20-2010 | #8 |
| | on XP = so far win32 sality -affect all file launcher with exe extension -disable task manager and reg -disable antivirus (since exe is infected) somehow combofix sweep it away on seven = trojan backdoor -disable task manager,regedit and disable autorun of explorer.exe at startup (blank screen on startup) system restore does its job MHV (most hated virus) FAKE AV'S = lame way to gain money |
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| 05-21-2010 | #9 |
| | Every Now and then I get viruses from pen drives but thanks to my AV, it cleans as I plug them in  |
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| 05-21-2010 | #10 |
| | I picked up a virus last week, but Malwarebytes killed it  MSE didnt know what to do with it and crashed itself.... to be fair though, thats the first virus I have had since 2003 (XP+IE6) so I cant really complain |
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