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  • GodDAMN.  Something happened to my computer today the likes of which I'd never seen before.  I knew there was some kind of malware thing going on, but I couldn't find anything in msconfig.  Then all of a sudden fifteen malware programs inst

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #21187  by Nev
 Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:06 pm
<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>GodDAMN. Something happened to my computer today the likes of which I'd never seen before. I knew there was some kind of malware thing going on, but I couldn't find anything in msconfig. Then all of a sudden fifteen malware programs installed themselves on my machine at once.</div>

 #21188  by Nev
 Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:10 pm
<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Related, does anyone know what the best all-around computer protection software is these days?</div>

 #21195  by Ishamael
 Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:01 am
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Spyware/malware is like AIDS -- only combination therapy works well. So I'd advice a firewall, which I assume you have, and some anti-virus (like Norton), and anti-spyware utility (like Spybot). All these together will help you to a large degree.</div>

 #21199  by SineSwiper
 Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:53 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Spybot, with the TeaTimer enabled, and AVG for viruses. Just fixed up somebody else's computer a few weeks ago. (I think I made a post on the cleaning process.) If you're good at it, you can go into Safe Mode, and start deleting crap from the registery, especially the Run/RunOnce folders.</div>

 #21226  by my cookies don't work eve
 Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:13 am
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Fucking SurfSideKick "tickles" its way back in your computer anyway.  Goddamn piece of shit.</div>

 #21227  by my cookies don't work eve
 Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:14 am
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>feh i suppose i actually should shell out for some antivirus software</div>

 #21277  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:24 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Nah, AVG is free.</div>