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glowy
glowy Members Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭
edited October 2010 in IllTek
As far as I know, I think I have been virus/spyware free for the past 3 years, ever since I got my own computer.

Maybe not, I just know AVG/Avast hasn't picked anything in a while.

Think I had a couple Trojans before I got avast, but nothing serious.
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  • cmick
    cmick Members Posts: 208 ✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    That's a good question.
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  • powerman 5000
    powerman 5000 Members Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    Good job.. Just as long as it is attributed to being careful and maintaining your machine and not attributed to having an expensive for no reason mac
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  • konceptjones
    konceptjones Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 13,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    switch to Avira. It catches more ? than AVG. Your machine might seem ok, but you may still have a trojan running without you even knowing it, especially if you've been rooted.
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  • King Erauno
    King Erauno Members Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    man look...NOTHING free on the net is worth it. no avg free..nothing. u gotta pay for ur ? or get it illegally to see any type of real protection


    cause yall ? quick to clink on lanks n ?

    IT lesson for u: spyware takes all of ur personal info...virus is meant to do damage to your pc.
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  • konceptjones
    konceptjones Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 13,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    King Erauno wrote: »
    man look...NOTHING free on the net is worth it. no avg free..nothing. u gotta pay for ur ? or get it illegally to see any type of real protection


    cause yall ? quick to clink on lanks n ?

    IT lesson for u: spyware takes all of ur personal info...virus is meant to do damage to your pc.

    highly incorrect.

    Avira is free and it's amazing, true the purchased version is better, but for freeware the ? works a lot better than the more expensive ? . Seriously, the heuristic algorithms work well and pick up a lot of ? that hasn't even been officially verified to be malware.

    Go ahead and pay for Symantec or bootleg it. The Chinese groups have their source code to it due to a joint venture between Symantec and Huawei Technologies back in 2007. A month or so after the partnership, new trojans and whatnot started to appear that were specifically targeting and defeating Symantec products. To this day, Symantec is the most exploitable AV software on the market.
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  • Bwoahmizzee
    Bwoahmizzee Members Posts: 6,962 ✭✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    konceptjones wrote: »
    switch to Avira. It catches more ? than AVG. Your machine might seem ok, but you may still have a trojan running without you even knowing it, especially if you've been rooted.

    yeah I've heard about ? laying dormant on your cpu and and just chillin in the background until a later date
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  • Iheart~Cali
    Iheart~Cali Members Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    I have Avast. Works ok so far. Run it in safemode. And malwarebytes while you're at it. Also if you feel like something is truly wrong, run Combofix and give the log to someone who knows and who won't intetionally tell you to delete something vital so they can pick out any malicious entries.
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  • D-Marco
    D-Marco Members Posts: 4,308 ✭✭
    edited October 2010
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    goos looks koncept...imma d/load Avira when i get to the house. Had a virus like 3 yrs ago an had to clean my harddrive. ? is a headache...and i dont even d'l porn so IDK what it was
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  • konceptjones
    konceptjones Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 13,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bwoahmizzee wrote: »
    yeah I've heard about ? laying dormant on your cpu and and just chillin in the background until a later date

    that ? is real. And it's not that it chills until a later date either, some of 'em send out a minor beacon pulse to their home server... just as a kind of way of saying "I'm alive and waiting for instructions".

    I wish I could post up some ? from the whitepaper I coauthored at the beginning of this year. It dealt specifically with new types of malware threats and network security in general. ? is crazy as ? out there
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  • King Erauno
    King Erauno Members Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    konceptjones wrote: »
    highly incorrect.

    Avira is free and it's amazing, true the purchased version is better, but for freeware the ? works a lot better than the more expensive ? . Seriously, the heuristic algorithms work well and pick up a lot of ? that hasn't even been officially verified to be malware.

    Go ahead and pay for Symantec or bootleg it. The Chinese groups have their source code to it due to a joint venture between Symantec and Huawei Technologies back in 2007. A month or so after the partnership, new trojans and whatnot started to appear that were specifically targeting and defeating Symantec products. To this day, Symantec is the most exploitable AV software on the market.

    nah i dont ? with anything symantec. its a resource hog...and overly expensive
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