How many viruses have you had? Page 2

Started by Them Bones December 11th, 2010 6:44 AM
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Zet

Age 33
Male
Brisbane, Australia
Seen September 29th, 2021
Posted May 16th, 2020
7,687 posts
15.7 Years

What antivirus do you use?
AVG, Avast!, McAfee and a couple of others.
Sweet zombie Jesus! Please tell me you don't have all those AVs intalled at once, because that's like overdosing your PC. Get rid of AVG, McAfee and please send me a VM with the other AVs you use so I can help you better.

Welllll, I've been on a Mac for pretty much my entire life (barring the 1-2ish years I used a PC), so I haven't had a virus in really forever. But during the period of like a year and half when I had a PC, I think I had one big attack of malware/adware.
You probably have a few Windows viruses hidden on your mac, just waiting for the sight of Windows to appear.
Age 29
Seen November 5th, 2017
Posted November 5th, 2017
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14.9 Years
I've only had one virus (I think), but it was pretty bad. My computer just randomly started getting progressively worse until it got to the point where I was unable to do anything at all and sometimes it wouldn't even get to the log-on screen. Not a single anti-virus program I downloaded could even detect it, let alone get rid of it. So I just formatted my hard drive, Installed Windows 7 and started anew. I still have no idea what happened, or if it was even a virus. That was a couple of months ago, and my computer's been working fine since the format.

I use MSE, I used to have AVG but it is absolutely awful so I am never getting it again.

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Age 29
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14.9 Years
Hmm..

Trojan Horse put in hell alot of viruses on the pc... :/
Backdoor
Haxdoor
Bloodhound
...

ARGH TOO MANY TO COUNT AND EACH FIVE SECONDS I SAW ONE OF THE FILES IN THE WINDOWS MAP JUST DISAPPEAR x.x;

The pc was like 80% damaged. :/ So we reinstalled the whole thing, all the viruses were gone ^^
Age 31
Female
The Wired
Seen April 27th, 2016
Posted February 1st, 2016
7,540 posts
13 Years
How many viruses have you had?
1, but it basically killed my old laptop.

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

What antivirus do you use?
AVG ftw. Probably not the most complete but it goes well with my firewall and other defence things so it's all good.
Age 30
Female
Seen October 19th, 2015
Posted January 14th, 2013
31 posts
12.4 Years
I use a decent anti-virus called Norton Internet Security which is a better version of Norton Antivirus because its got Real Time Protection :)
I've had Norton before. I heard it takes control of your computer. It did it to ours.

Let's see.
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Age 28
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PokeVerse
Seen November 26th, 2022
Posted November 26th, 2022
2,218 posts
12.9 Years
I remember a few years back getting a trojan were roach like bugs would crawl all over my screen and it ate at the screen and slowly disabled everything intill it wiped my computer.I had to turn my computer on real fast and go to boot window fast in a matter of seconds to be able to reinstall windows xp on it or it would shut off.It pissed me off.

Its been about 3 years since i had one thou

I use norton now but before 3 years ago i didn't use anti virus which lead to the trojan XD
USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
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.
I used Windows for 12 years without a single virus. Then I switched to Linux and most virii are not supported by my operating system, so I do not anticipate problems with them.
Try out Sabayon Linux today.

Purple Materia

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Age 28
Male
Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted August 20th, 2013
783 posts
12.7 Years
Freaking Antivirus Scan... :/

Now I have to reinstall Windows on my friend's computer. Thanks so much. D<

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Meganium

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Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
One virus, not more. This one hit my computer hard in August of 2009. Ended up sending my computer for repairs for 4 weeks. Note to self: be careful when downloading torrents!

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Age 29
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Seen September 5th, 2018
Posted April 1st, 2013
490 posts
15.2 Years
How many viruses have you had?
Only 1
. I also remember what it did. It didn't allow me to open any folders so I had to create folders, put my shortcuts in them and then drag them to the taskbar.

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

What antivirus do you use?
Norton Internet Security.

Purple Materia

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Age 28
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Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted August 20th, 2013
783 posts
12.7 Years
One virus, not more. This one hit my computer hard in August of 2009. Ended up sending my computer for repairs for 4 weeks. Note to self: be careful when downloading torrents!
Read the comments next time! 8D

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GlaceonX

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Manati, Puerto rico
Seen September 13th, 2011
Posted September 13th, 2011
37 posts
12.4 Years
How many viruses have you had? 3

How long has it been since you had one? Haven't had one since SP3 of XP

What antivirus do you use? None, I don't use one since I got SP3 of windows x3, I do have spyware terminator, I rarely use it though
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Age 27
Female
Seen August 25th, 2013
Posted June 30th, 2013
331 posts
12.7 Years
How many viruses have you had?
Just one! And it was just a stupid one. The kind that are supposed to trick you into buying a fake antivirus program.

How long has it been since you had one?
About a year or so.

What antivirus do you use?
At the time I didn't have one because the one that came with my computer expired. But after that I installed Avira.

jab2033

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Male
Off to Never-Never Land
Seen March 2nd, 2014
Posted September 16th, 2011
361 posts
14.9 Years
How many viruses have you had?
Not too many viruses. Probably less than 5. I generally get spyware and adware infections most often. Those random popups are annoying...

How long has it been since you had one?
Not sure when my last Virus was, but I had an adware infection earlier this week.

What antivirus do you use?
BitDefender. And Malware-Bytes Antimalware for spyware stuff.

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Age 97
Shimoda City
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Posted January 25th, 2022
9,705 posts
15.5 Years
Well, as an update to my previous post here, yesterday my brother's computer was hit with the AntiVira AV virus, which is a nasty one that hijacks the browser under the guise of a fake antivirus program. That took a good three hours for me to get rid of...

This is the first one he's had on his computer, though he just got it in late December. He currently has no antivirus running, but after this incident I'm gonna install one on his computer for him in the very near future.

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Seen July 23rd, 2017
Posted June 9th, 2017
1,761 posts
14.8 Years
I've combated 2 on different computers. One changed the wallpaper to some "WARNING!" screen along with toolbar pop-ups, and another just pulled up pop-ups. SO FREAKING ANNOYING - I had to get the computer replaced at one place.

Currently, the computer I am using (not the one I'm on at the moment) boots, but right after the "log-in" welcome screen, I get a Blue Screen of Death, and the computer restarts. BSOD. Restart. BSOD. Restart. BSOD. Restart. I'm scared it might be another virus, but I do not know...it was working just fine some days ago. I can only avoid the BSOD if I go into Safe Mode at the moment, but I'm a bit unfamiliar with combating BSODs (I've countered a few of them before, though.) I don't know what to do... :cer_cry:

Using NOD32 antivirus on that computer right now, but I think it's a trial version or something...

Honestly, if I ever come face-to-face with a virusmaker (preferably when I'm accompanied by a Blaziken), I think I would be brimming with anger, with my Blaziken poised to unleash its utter rage upon them. They make viruses that are completely inconvenient and essentially force us to buy antivirus software when they could be working on more productive things in technology. Scum of the earth, those virusmakers are. :cer_pissed: :pink_pissed:
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Age 26
Female
Starbucks
Seen November 9th, 2014
Posted November 8th, 2014
190 posts
12.2 Years
How many viruses have you had?
3 or 4, never really had that tons of viruses.

How long has it been since you had one?
A year ago.

What antivirus do you use?
I don't know what my dad did with it, but as far as I know it's Avira Antivirus.
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Age 28
Male
Seen January 8th, 2022
Posted August 20th, 2016
477 posts
15.3 Years
I've only had one really bad virus before and it was very recently like a week or two ago! The virus was called AntiVirus.net (ironic =/ ) and it was a malware that would activate at start up after all other start up programs. that 30 seconds to 1 min is all you get before it starts giving you fake error messages saying "(name of what ever you were clicking on) is infected and running it could infect your computer" or something like that. It would let you open all web browsers but it set up a proxy so you would see more lies! "Using internet explorer may take you to websites and infect your computer further" even though internet explorer wasn't on my computer!
Was able to get rid of it using Spybot search and destroy.

My old antivirus was avast! but I deleted that after it couldn't stop or detect the one virus that mattered. Now I use Avira
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Age 30
Male
Oregon
Seen January 1st, 2013
Posted January 1st, 2013
116 posts
12.3 Years
How many viruses have you had?
I had a few in late 2007 on our old dell. I just reinstalled windows and never cared about it again.

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

What antivirus do you use?
A combination of Microsoft Security Essentials, MBAM and Super Antispyware.

CptSwaggerPants

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Female
Louisiana
Seen January 1st, 2014
Posted January 1st, 2014
181 posts
12.7 Years
I have had a whole bunch. Still get a lot of them. My protection never works and I just do a simple System restore everything goes back to normal ;)

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