Personal Antivirus Infection

[OOZ662]

Not sure English is his native language. I think he might have meant something along the lines of "determinate." In any case, he meant a hardware firewall is important.

[RTHolmes]

ok that makes sense

[pervert]

I had to clean this fake AV up before Mars it took quite a long time, I had to do a lot of google searching 
I would have been better and faster to just do a fresh install which is what you should probably do mate.

[Ghastly]

If I get another virus

Sounds to me like you mean "When".

IMO, these 3 things are axiomatic:

1) free AV is worth about what you pay for it. 
2) And even the best commercial AV doesn't stand a chance if you browse stupidly.
3) But even without ANY AV, a fully patched system can stay clean for a LOOOOONG time if not used for social networking sites, pr0n, or P2P.

Hence, the large discrepency between users and their rate of success with /evaluations of various A/V packages.

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[Mar]

Plus there's always the part of some people not having a Windows Installer, not having a backup of personal files, not having a recovery disk/partition. There are multiple reasons why people don't reformat. Mine is for knowledge.

I'm one of them people. I do have a recovery disk, but as I said I'd rather use that as a last resort.

Anyway, so far no problems. I think "browsing stupidly" was the source of these viruses, but as I said I've now fixed that problem, so there shouldn't be any more problems with viruses.


Thank you all for your help.