Anti Virus 2009

agzg · #1 01-09-2009, 02:58 PM

I've got AVG and it works well for me.

I also have "I don't click on random links or popups."

DaemonSeid · #2 01-09-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

I've got AVG and it works well for me.

I also have "I don't click on random links or popups."

worse yet....cg has Vista and u know Vista takes you thru a zillion pop ups for premission so I am wondering if she thought that this was one thing that she needed to allow?

aephi alum · #3 01-09-2009, 04:28 PM

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (Unfortunately this bit of wisdom is coming too late for you, CG.)

I've been happy with McAfee and Ad-Aware (which reminds me, I need to put Ad-Aware on my new laptop). Once your computer is infected, cleaning it off can be a major PITA. The "Anti Virus 2009" virus has been out for a few months, though - I'm surprised the AV programs haven't addressed it adequately.

As for Vista... I cannot stand all those "allow/deny" pop-ups. I can't even do an ipconfig release/renew from the command line without my machine whining that I'm not an administrator. If I get one more pop-up I'm putting Linux on this thing.

AGDee · #4 01-09-2009, 05:23 PM

In my experience, the virus disables McAfee before McAfee knows what's going on. It truly is making me crazy. It registers a dll and a handle and associates them with winlogon.exe and explorer.exe. You can't rename them or delete them because they are always in use, even in safe mode. When you delete their registry keys, the virus re-creates them immediately. Truly maddening. Now, I boot with a floppy boot disk and delete them through DOS. You can use process explorer to stop the handle association and then rename the files also, but until you've removed the handle association, it just keeps coming back.

aephi alum · #5 01-09-2009, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

In my experience, the virus disables McAfee before McAfee knows what's going on. It truly is making me crazy. It registers a dll and a handle and associates them with winlogon.exe and explorer.exe. You can't rename them or delete them because they are always in use, even in safe mode. When you delete their registry keys, the virus re-creates them immediately. Truly maddening. Now, I boot with a floppy boot disk and delete them through DOS. You can use process explorer to stop the handle association and then rename the files also, but until you've removed the handle association, it just keeps coming back.

ICK. That's nasty. What kind of sick puppies come up with this stuff?

AGDee · #6 01-10-2009, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by aephi alum

ICK. That's nasty. What kind of sick puppies come up with this stuff?

The registry keys will keep re-creating themselves too. I tried changing values then changing the permissions on the keys to stop that and it just made a new registry key or changed it all back to how it was originally, even when I denied access to the registry key to EVERYBODY and the system account. I swear I was ready to kill that kid of mine.

aephi alum · #7 01-10-2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

You guys, today has been the biggest nightmare ever.
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The Dell guy told me Norton was the best one. He said that's what he uses. So I got that one.

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover your system and get back online. That Norton comment was very interesting - my brand new Dell laptop shipped with McAfee...

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Originally Posted by AGDee

The registry keys will keep re-creating themselves too. I tried changing values then changing the permissions on the keys to stop that and it just made a new registry key or changed it all back to how it was originally, even when I denied access to the registry key to EVERYBODY and the system account. I swear I was ready to kill that kid of mine.

YEOW. That's really evil. I hope karma delivers a nasty bite in the posterior to whoever came up with this virus.