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Nonstop viruses, can't get rid of them?

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Steve C.

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Got the same thing going on my production computer..:frustrated:
My daughter used it Saturday to download some music on myspace. :doh:

CounterSpy and The Shield Deluxe were no help. :banghead:
 
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Steve C.

New Member
Well, I tried to download and run one of the socalled free smit fraud
cleaners, but at the end of the scan it said you must upgrade and pay]
for the cleaning....not that I would mind but Techman said the free ones
are the best. Anyway, My "Shield Deluxe" came up automatically and said
that all threats had been neutralized. All pop ups have stoped so I guess
I'm ok. I did turn off Systems Restore as suggested.

Hope you get yours fixed up soon Flamey. Good Luck!
 
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uncle ned

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self replicating virus crap. Mark in Tx has the right attitude, wish we could find them. a couple years ago, I caught a something that attacked the bios chip, physically!! fried it! but that replicating crap is a real pain. good luck. all the good ideas have been spoken here. hope one works.
 
binki

binki

New Member
Wipe the hard disk clean, install the OS and then a virus protection software. Then all else. Good luck.
 
FrankenSigns.biz

FrankenSigns.biz

New Member
Reformat the hard disk, reinstall your system from the original system disk, clean the computer with Windex, sell said computer on eBay and spend the proceeds on a new Mac!

:rolleyes:
 
Flame

Flame

New Member
FrankenSigns.biz said:
Reformat the hard disk, reinstall your system from the original system disk, clean the computer with Windex, sell said computer on eBay and spend the proceeds on a new Mac!

:rolleyes:
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haha. No macs for me. They drive me nuts. Logged in 100 design hours on one in college, and was always glad to get back to my beloved PC's. :p
 
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ackerman139

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haha. c'mon justin. Macs are where its at. They are like hybrids, someday they will just have to cover some of the mistakes we made...

:p
 
Rooster

Rooster

New Member
What are these viruses and adware you speak of? I've never had one.

Actually I lie. I set-up a win2000 server box at home a few years ago. Within 24hrs I had multiple viruses, adware and had been hacked into. So I sold the machine and bought another mac for at home. Life is good now.
 
Flame

Flame

New Member
Weird.......... no more. I run scans, clean. No more popups, no more issues that I can find. It's gone.... it can't even find the rootkit anymore (the one that popped up every 10 minutes)

Bizarre.... I didn't do anything different.
 
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Steve C.

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Flame said:
Weird.......... no more. I run scans, clean. No more popups, no more issues that I can find. It's gone.... it can't even find the rootkit anymore (the one that popped up every 10 minutes)

Bizarre.... I didn't do anything different.
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Yeah, mine went away too. Now its back. But only about one popup
every 2 hrs.
 
choucove

choucove

New Member
Rooster said:
What are these viruses and adware you speak of? I've never had one.

Actually I lie. I set-up a win2000 server box at home a few years ago. Within 24hrs I had multiple viruses, adware and had been hacked into. So I sold the machine and bought another mac for at home. Life is good now.
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It seems a lot of people have always thought that Macs are somehow "immune" to viruses, it's not true. They are a computer and can get a virus just like a Windows or Linux machine can get a virus or malware. The difference is that not many people write viruses which affect Mac systems (which is drastically changing actually.) But Macs are far from invincible to virus attacks. Heck, one of our programming projects back in high school was to design a bug that could attack both Windows and Mac systems. All in all, it was a very simple bug that didn't damage data or return your passwords or anything, but it would replace links of certain icons to other programs (instead of opening the CD-Rom drive when you clicked on the icon, it instead shut off the computer, etc.) and associating certain menu commands or events with certain sound effects.

The good ol' days of people buying a Mac because of the limited number of viruses that are targeted towards them is quickly changing. There have been several articles and reports released resently of some very powerful and dangerous viruses beginning to circulate throughout the Mac community and several experts are predicting it will be getting a lot worse very fast due to the number of people who have been picking up OSX.
 
Sign Works

Sign Works

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Flame said:
Weird.......... no more. I run scans, clean. No more popups, no more issues that I can find. It's gone.... it can't even find the rootkit anymore (the one that popped up every 10 minutes)

Bizarre.... I didn't do anything different.
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Flame, now just stay off the porn sites and you should be OK.:thumb:
 
Rooster

Rooster

New Member
choucove said:
It seems a lot of people have always thought that Macs are somehow "immune" to viruses, it's not true.
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I never implied they were immune. However my experience with over 20 years working on the mac platform has been completely virus free.

When they come up with some kind of a virus that can infect macs simply by visiting a website, without having to download and run a file, I'll bump up the worry meter a notch. Until then I'll just carry on enjoying my virus free existence.
 
Techman

Techman

New Member
This floggin PC's,,, and MACS are better over the virus thing is so old.

MAC's have problems too. They are not a god and owning a MAC is not supposed to be a religious experience kin to that of enlightenment..
 
functionpdx

functionpdx

New Member
Here's what I did and I haven't had to fight a virus in years, I hope it helps.

1. Clean os install.
2. Setup EVERYTHING the way I need it, installed programs and set my preferences, set shared printers, turn off automatic updates, etc.
3. Ran backup software(I use Acronis True Image) and saved it to a separate drive. This makes a copy of everything on your drive os, programs, settings that you can load in case things go bad beyond what my virus protection(spyware terminator, windows firewall, windows defender) can quickly fix.
4. Only use the internet with a limited user account, if something gets weird like popups or an extra search just happens appear I just delete the user account and start another one. You can save your bookmarks in a shared folder.
5. No more headaches.
 
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