How many viruses have you had?

[blue]

I've had a few Virus' (mainly Trojans) but saved thanks to AVG!

I had a major virus a couple of weeks ago however. It wasn't a virus but it was, a fake "AntiVirus Program" had somehow installed onto my computer and faked that I had Viruses and created a list of fake viruses that I didn't have but was cleverly plotted to make it look like it, and it was fixating on the fact I had "Viruses" and the only was to get rid of it was to buy the program for a large sum of money and it also blocked me from opening anything from Internet, to recovery programs.
Eventually I had to do a System Restore which I wasn't best pleased about as I restored back to longer than a Month earlier which meant I lost several files :/

But now I've got AVG always running and it's protecting my computer.

 

[CrystalBeast]

probably over 9000 viruses no lie.

last week i had one

200 dollar eset

 

[luigi90210]

probably over 9000 viruses no lie.

last week i had one

200 dollar eset

lol this post made my day, i was about to post that(as a joke)

but seriously i have had 0 viruses on my computer(LINUX FTW)

 

[EJ]

I've had a few over the years (on other people's computers).

Ironically I do the exact same things now (on my old laptop) that I did back then and I haven't gotten a virus....so the moral of the story, it wasn't me getting the viruses it was the primary user.

Even though I was the one fixing and removing them ;-;

I also have an ubuntu dualboot just in case my windows were to crash or whatever.

 

[Thomas]

I've never had one...I own a Mac, and I've never had one since I've owned a Mac.

 

[Woobat]

How many viruses have you had?
Two. One on my old Dell desktop back in 2007, which I was never able to reformat because the disk drive is broken. Another that my little brother got on my laptop back in November 2010, but I reformatted and it's all good now.

How long has it been since you had one?
5 months.

What antivirus do you use?
Norton and Malwarebytes as of now. I used the McAfee subscription that came with my laptop until I got that virus back in November.

 

[ShinyMeowth]

I use Ubuntu and still watch out. That way, I have never had a single virus. People should realize that installing windows, getting viruses, and then using antiviruses on your computer is like cutting your arm twenty-seven times, going out, playing around in the dirt, and then using bandages to stop the blood flow without even cleaning said arm first.

 

[Pokemon Trainer Touko]

How many viruses have you had?
I've never had one

How long has it been since you had one?

What antivirus do you use?
What's that?

 

[groteske]

How many viruses have you had?
One, in 2002 when I got my first desktop. I don't remember which virus, it was sometime around when Blaster hit the fan.

How long has it been since you had one?
9 years

What antivirus do you use?
None. I keep my browsers sandboxed, audit certain things, regularly read & investigate logs, and keep track of my system in general.