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meg_levins

Continuation

Dec 11, 2007 09:05

After a horrible day and night, I finally made it back to the apartment and sat down to install my free Norton AntiVirus. I don't know how much of the computer it got through, but it found about a bazillion infected files. One of them must be particularily nasty because the computer shut down by itself and Norton freaked out saying it was being ( Read more... )

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norton colibri29 December 11 2007, 14:35:12 UTC

Well, this shows your McAfee anti-virus program wasn't working!!

I am sure there's always a "better" program, but Norton is totally fine --- I've never heard bad things about it. I don't see the point of paying or waiting around for another one. I agree with disconnecting from the internet before running though.

Re: norton meg_levins December 11 2007, 16:29:59 UTC

Well, she told me that some programs are better equipped to remove viruses than other, and that Norton is a "clunky" application, and tends to crash computers. Mom has the two programs that Kate was talking about and will send them to me.

Re: norton colibri29 December 11 2007, 16:34:11 UTC

as long as you're getting something FREE and SOON, more power to you ;)

keithgrant December 11 2007, 16:36:05 UTC

For removal of this sort of thing, I have heard that Spybot works well, and for after you've cleaned everything up, AVG is a free antivirus application that I consider to be superior to Norton/Symantec/McAfee/etc.

What do you mean there were actually people feeding stuff in to your computer? Were you running an IRC server or something? We get that here occasionally when someone doesn't practice safe computing on their Windows system.

For my mandatory proselytization, you could just use Linux or BSD and never again fear viruses or spyware.

meg_levins December 12 2007, 19:48:28 UTC

Well, I don't know if I'm special enough to have my very own cyber-bad-guy, and that sentence was more a generality. That being said:
IRC?
Linux?
BSD?
You forget I'm unfamiliar with your computercolloquialisms. And that's okay. I don't really want to learn. Why don't you come over and fix it instead of proselytizing?

keithgrant December 12 2007, 21:25:05 UTC

Why don't you come over and fix it instead of proselytizing?

Why don't you live in the same state first? ;p

meg_levins December 12 2007, 21:29:16 UTC

details, details

(Give me another 6-7 months, tops.)