P.C. Resurrected

Howdy- Just have to say that if I ever disappear from here, it'd probably be due to some damn virus. Our neighbour resurrected us, today. 4 hours non-stop ( FREE) professional experience to set us aright! I am not trying to cast aspersions, but I was at Deviant Art and a pop-up came THREAT, and thereafter was plagued with the usual virus non-sense, pop-ups, offers for security, invitations to skin sites- all sorts of crap, and I was so upset. I suspect that if it happens again, that I will literally throw this machine out the window- so look out below!
Frank saved files, programs, to back-up, formatted harddrive, and then reconstituted the pc.
Nightmare theater!
Has anyone here ever heard of people getting a virus fro Deviant Art?

[duey]

I've never heard of it, no, but I suppose it's possible.

No never got one from there. But you never know. Good to see your pc pulled a Lazerus and came back from the dead. I know how hard it is when all your files get..eaten!WB

Hi David,
I am the person you invited to try out Dueys site after I responded to your comment on my tree WIP. I will introduce myself on the newbie thread after I reply to your topic here.
I have come across a virus on DA one time, lucky enough for me my virus protection program caught it the second it tried to get on my computer and deleted it instantly. I also run SpyBot Search and Destroy in the background and it is always blocking tracking cookies from DA. I am not sure if you run an active virus protection program in the background while you are on the computer or not but if you don't I would highly recommend you do, if you don't you run the risk of viruses attacking your computer before you run a virus check. A little preventative maintenance goes a long way!

Something has infected the path to image shack on my cpu in the den(my computer). When I try to click on a pic. for image shack, it starts bombing me with"girleymyspace.com yada yada. I think my wife can fix it. It sucks, they stick trojans in certain files. Glad your back! I now have found a free anti-virus program that works quite well too,use all u can find, it is called AVG and it so far has caught every virus. Here's the link


http://free1.grisoft.com/doc/welcome/us/frt/0

Thanks everyone. Welcome to you, RFK48! I do hope you find something here, or much here, that you like. They, we, seem to be a reasonable lot!
I have the AVG program that Quicksdraw mentioned. I had a WARNING pop-up immediately when I was on that 'other' site, but I was down the garden path already. That virus ( its type, at least) has been out since 2002, a nd no one! has been able to make a patch/cure for it. It is called , amongst other things, "Backdoor.Flood" . Everywhere I went, everything I did was interrupted by an invitation for ppc protection, or the best porno site in the world, etc. I becoem ill when this happens, and, but for our qualified friend, I couldn't even show up to say " I am not here because..." Frank put our files into a back up, formatted the harddrive, and we ( He) put it together all over again!
Life is too short for that, and the next time it goes out the window: a true compute crash!

Like someone said, I would definitely take the time to download Spybot Search and Destroy (there is a free version available online ie. download.com). I would also download Ad-Aware which also helps a lot on getting rid of tracking cookies.

In the long run, I'd strongly suggest purchasing a subsciption of a major virus protection program like Norton if you're using the internet often (especially if you're searching through forums frequently). Its very easy to throw in a trojan or virus in a thread and get people to click them.

Trent Micro is great as wel and free! They scan your pc and remove everything they find after they list it for you.

Thanks to you Shawn and Viking and everyone-I just ain't gonna go there no more! y avg has worked adequatelly for a couple of years, and then I went to that 'place'. There's a feel there that is kind of cool ( as in not warm). I don't need it. Frank says to keep enjoying the computere, that I have a computer tecch for a neighbour ( him) but I don't like what happens to me when I a virus comes, so I will just go by what Frank says. he uses Nortons... I am still recovering. Those virus makers better hope that Karma doesn't exist...