Digital Condom
Bloody hell. Just one time of unprotected sex with a USB stick and my laptop's virus test came back positive. And a very tenacious virus too. Very stubborn. I don't think Dynamo could have handled it.
Win32:Malware-Gen & Win32:Inject-XX
Symantec could not help me. It just managed to catch the spam e-mails that it was trying to send out from my lappie. The alerts were super annoying. At least 20 would pop-up at one time. Don't worry, I don't think anyone received any Rolex or pharmacy offers from me. A simple port scan showed that whenever my lappie was connected to a network, it would suppretitously make numerous connections to random SMTP servers on the internet. Ugh!
My colleague suggested that I install Avast. At least that managed to DETECT the virus, but I was not fully-cured. I would still need to deal with deleting the virus copies as they popped up. So hard to kill. I did several full scans (it bloody takes more than one night to scan the 2 million odd files on my lappie) across a span of two days the problems finally stopped after I did a round of Windows updates.
So do remember to protect yourself. Always take precautions as you never know what port that USB stick has been stuck in. This has been a community service message from moi...
Win32:Malware-Gen & Win32:Inject-XX
Symantec could not help me. It just managed to catch the spam e-mails that it was trying to send out from my lappie. The alerts were super annoying. At least 20 would pop-up at one time. Don't worry, I don't think anyone received any Rolex or pharmacy offers from me. A simple port scan showed that whenever my lappie was connected to a network, it would suppretitously make numerous connections to random SMTP servers on the internet. Ugh!
My colleague suggested that I install Avast. At least that managed to DETECT the virus, but I was not fully-cured. I would still need to deal with deleting the virus copies as they popped up. So hard to kill. I did several full scans (it bloody takes more than one night to scan the 2 million odd files on my lappie) across a span of two days the problems finally stopped after I did a round of Windows updates.
So do remember to protect yourself. Always take precautions as you never know what port that USB stick has been stuck in. This has been a community service message from moi...
Comments
[Jino] - A man's not a man unless he knows how to shoot
LOL.
@Danny:
I'm sure there are IT guys in your class.
@Jino:
The best medicine!
@TZ:
Hahaha. No $$$.
@Beng2:
Be ever vigilant!
+Ant+
Microsoft is up to no good! :P
@LittleD:
Hahahaha. :D
@CountA:
Too bad they use Jackie Chan as the spokesperson.
@Pikey:
Sigh. Sometimes no choice.
Cool. What laptop did you buy?
@Medie:
Different type of virus la. :P