I was wondering if any of you would have advice on the subject. If you find a virus, and then delete it from your computer with a security program, are there any further measures you should take? Does it depend on the virus?
Most small viruses like adware require a system scan, but anti-virus programs usually catch the bigger and stronger ones.Also when you delete a virus you might want to do a second scan to make sure it hasn`t duplicated itself.
Everything seems to be running ok now, but I will do a second scan when I can. I have a friend who is gonna come over and look at what I had and do a clean sweep of my computer.
And I don't think they were anything large.. just pop-up causing ones and the like.
Hehe that is adware it`s bassicly harmless to the computer.If you need something strong against spyware get SUPER antispyware yea its a cheesy name, but it works great.
You should also consider getting a spyware scanner like spybot of adaware, most small threats easily evade norton of macaffe, spyware scanners are good for adware and keyloggers.
There is no way to entirely protect yourself from viruses other than: - having a unix based OS - not having an internet connection
however the best you can do is download the following programs which are antiviruses/antispyware -SUPERAntiSpyware -NOD32 -HijackThis!
That's all i recommend, if you're like me and you're tired of getting virused though, i'd just recommend getting Ubuntu 7.10 or Mac OS X. Hope this helped
Blue screen of death for me ;..; and once i dled this virus scanner on internet, it only made it worse it wasnt a virus scanner, it was a like a fools name and so my computer had like porno pop ups, and ones that were like hello? in my e-mail and was like hello? you owe me 5 mil from poker last night, and i was like WTF?!!! and so i just threw it away i tried ehaving the motherboard reinstalled, but it was everywhere i swear -.-
Does your computer automaticly scan itself every day? Mine starts every day at midnight. Then in the morning it tells me the results and I shall hit you with my stick. I somtimes do another scan when I visit a new site i haven't been to before.
a pop up blocker mite work good but it makes ur internet all antsy like"no no no dont go there" or spyware mite be good internet protection all that stuff
