Just to satisfy my curiosity.
How often does your antivirus programs stop an infection from happening? I'm not talking about things like play.exe renamed to mp3 files. My mom gets those all the time and they do nothing. A real infection. Also, what where you doing that caused it?
Thanks
Its a not very common event for me, usually my Av will pick it up, but last time i got an infection, it cleaned me right out, ended up formating and starting fresh, was the win32.virut. and i got it from a keygen for a program i have lost the serial code for, i got the code, but got a nasty suprise as well.
Not often, is your answer, because i stick to site i know, and i dont visit "adult" sites, that usually have a hidden suprise, besides the one your expecting.
In the last couple of years, Avast has alerted me to at least two different items of malware from sites where one would not expect to find them. One was on the site for one of my favorite restaurants - go figure.
never had any infection. But sometimes my KIS were blocking some maliciuous web scripts, nothin more.
If I ever download something and unzip or unrar something that is a virus, my avg will throw up a window giving me the option to delete it. So I'd say my avg keeps me from getting infected about as often as I download something that will infect me.
my wife is a virus magnet... between setting her to a limited user account and using Avira, her PC has not been infected in at least 3-4 years now
Please red the question asked carefully. If you read it right, your answers should look something like this...
I'm not interested in how your spouses, parents, kids, etc, treat computers. Just you.6 months ago I downloaded x from such and such website and was going to run it but my AV alerted me that it was infected so I delete it instead
Thanks again.
Last edited by ten; 27 Jun 2009 at 05:27.
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