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How many viruses have you had?

Them Bones

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    • How many viruses have you had?
    I haven't had that many viruses, in fact only 2.

    How long has it been since you had one?
    2 Years

    What antivirus do you use?
    Trend Micro, our antivirus, is expired and currently we are using only Windows Defender. It's going fine with only Windows Defender.
     

    Gerri Shin

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

    How long has it been since you had one?
    N/A (see previous question)

    What antivirus do you use?
    Mostly Microsoft security essentials for my virtual windows machines, ESET for my Boot Camp, and Intego for Mac.
     

    Massacre.

    sky's on fire again
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    • How many viruses have you had? 3.

    How many viruses have you had? It's been approximately 6 months...

    What antivirus do you use? Mainly Trend Micro for my laptop and PC, and none for my mac.

    yeah, pretty much.
     
    Elite Overlord LeSabre™

    Elite Overlord LeSabre™

    On that 'Non stop road'
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    • How many viruses have you had?
    This computer has been hit with that Conficker virus twice.

    How long has it been since you had one?
    Since late August.

    What antivirus do you use?
    Microsoft Security Essentials, but the thing slows my computer to a crawl every time it wants to update.
     

    sab

    Now too much of a life.
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    • I've had two viruses. One just slowed things down and the other (I blame myself because I used craggle) was a trojen that, when excecuted, took out all sorts of things (task bar, near all other programs, mouse and keyboard use, etc.), but luckly I still have the old power plug. I had to unplug the cp, because It also took out the "turn off computor when power button is pressed" function. I now use malware bytes (pro), and haven't had a problem since I installed it in May.
     

    Purple Materia

    Shape the future!
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    In the past, when I was really stupid with this stuff, I'd get hit by them a lot. This was several years ago.

    Now, I haven't had a single one in like, ages. I personally use WOT for Chrome, NOD32 (it's actually kind of a memory hog, but it's protection makes me feel safe) and Malwarebytes. I scan on a weekly basis, nothing ever comes up.
     
    Empty Pot

    Empty Pot

    a new beginning...
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    • How many viruses have you had?
    To many to count, but none on my new laptop.

    How long has it been since you had one?
    4 years.

    What antivirus do you use?
    I use Avast! Antivirus. Gets the job done.
     

    PlatinumDude

    Nyeh?
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    • I don't exactly remember how many viruses I had, but I do remember the last time I got one: around a week ago, involving a USB. Right now, I'm using Norton Antivirus as my antivirus checker.
     

    nm legend

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    • aww man i had plenty of viruses......the one i have now is using my e-mail account to send emails to my whole contact lists to advertise a website to sell viagra and cialis and other crap........its embarrasing......
     

    Tribal Ebony

    Blood is always satisfactory.
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    • Hmm well I have had about 4 viruses on my computer, and I have Mcafee Protection and Malwarebytes Protection, so no harm is ever done! XD

    My big brother said his Teacher got a virus on her lappy. A kid got a virus on his USB and everytime you open a laptop the baby cries and cries and cries! So he put it on her laptop! XD
     

    beauty. proletariat

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    • Ive been hit by every kind of malicious software there is. T_T

    BUUUUUUUT; It's been a long time since something /i've done/ has caused my computer to meltdown. <(^_^)>

    I use MSE with trial version of windows 7 that I just reinstall every month. :D
     
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    John-117

    Jirachi lover
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    • I got a lot, but it was a few years ago because I got bored and decided to find bots for games. Reinstalled the OS three times. Now, those things stopped. :p
     

    Lana.

    *spin*
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    • How many viruses have you had?
    Two on this laptop, one on my old one.

    How long has it been since you had one?
    A year, give or take...

    What antivirus do you use?
    McAfee.I'm not entirely fond of it, though. I'm going to try to beat my dad to the punch on antivirus for my new laptop and install SE, but I think he might preinstall McAfee before I get to it. *sigh*
     

    The Corrupt Plague

    Missingno. hunter
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    • How many viruses have you had?

    Way too many across several computers over the years, having actually lost one of the first family PC's to a worm. Most of it is me having to clean up after my family, but eventually I became careless assuming it couldn't happen to me and then, reality check! I got my own personal laptop infected by a rogue antivirus from an infected blog link and after pulling my hair out trying to kill it, I quickly learned to become very cautious about absolutely everything.

    How long has it been since you had one?

    About a day or two. My sister went to an infected Facebook page and got another rogue on her computer! I think I was able to kill that one, though.

    What antivirus do you use?

    My favorite one at the moment is Malwarebytes, but I do tend to use multiple programs in case that one can't get it.
     
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    bigplrbear

    C# programmer for the IAPL
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    • How many viruses have you had? Zero. Working at a computer shop teaches you things. It also makes you see things on other peoples computers... things that can not be unseen...

    What antivirus do you use? I used to use Avast! Free. I now use Microsoft Security Essentials. I highly recommend Nod32 though, if you've got the money.
     
    Zet

    Zet

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    • How many viruses have you had?
    in all my time I've used computers? probably well over 100 due to horrible anitivirus programs used over the years.

    How long has it been since you had one?
    about 9 months now(though if you were to include false positives, maybe 3 or 4 months).

    What antivirus do you use?
    I used to use NOD32 with a 2016 key, but since it went bad I'm now using MSE which is slowing down the laptop boot speed and it takes forever to scan. But at least I'm well more protected than the people here who use trend micro and mcafee :P
     

    LightOfTruth

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    I use a decent anti-virus called Norton Internet Security which is a better version of Norton Antivirus because its got Real Time Protection :)
     
    TheAppleFreak

    TheAppleFreak

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    It's been a really long time since my last virus on any of the three or so computers in my house. Like, two or three years type long. I nearly got one on my netbook, but MSE detected it and killed it before it did anything.
     
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