Comments on: Could Your Computer be Infected With a Virus? http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:11:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: jsanderz http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-562 jsanderz Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:31:34 +0000 http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-562 Catherine, Its amazing how many people don't have any antivirus software installed, or if they do it is out of date by months. Regards. Catherine,
Its amazing how many people don’t have any antivirus software installed, or if they do it is out of date by months.
Regards.

]]> By: CatherineL http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-559 CatherineL Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:40:52 +0000 http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-559 Great post. I wish I'd found info like this when I bought my first computer in the nineties, because it had many of the symptoms you describe. All the time, run really slow and it would freeze or just switch off totally. And, I had one of those worthless on site support accounts that they used to charge a fortune for. But they kept coming out meddling about with the pc for a bit - and nothing worked, it was never fixed! And not one single one of them mentioned it could have a virus, so it never occurred to me. In the end, I got tired of it, and bought a new pc. It's great that there's far more useful info like this on the internet now. And hopefully, this article will save someone else from a pc virus. Great post. I wish I’d found info like this when I bought my first computer in the nineties, because it had many of the symptoms you describe.

All the time, run really slow and it would freeze or just switch off totally. And, I had one of those worthless on site support accounts that they used to charge a fortune for. But they kept coming out meddling about with the pc for a bit - and nothing worked, it was never fixed! And not one single one of them mentioned it could have a virus, so it never occurred to me.

In the end, I got tired of it, and bought a new pc.

It’s great that there’s far more useful info like this on the internet now. And hopefully, this article will save someone else from a pc virus.

]]> By: jsanderz http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-537 jsanderz Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:39:07 +0000 http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-537 Alkatr0z, Thanks for the tips, online virus scanners are another good way to check for viruses. Regards. Alkatr0z,
Thanks for the tips, online virus scanners are another good way to check for viruses.
Regards.

]]> By: Alkatr0z http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-536 Alkatr0z Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:35:18 +0000 http://www.informationaddicts.com/could-your-computer-be-infected-with-a-virus#comment-536 Good post. I'd suggest that everyone run a firewall on their personal computer even if you are sitting behind a router. Layered defense and as mentioned in your post it means that anything that tries to connect out you can prevent as well as giving you a starting point to find it. Hijack this is another handy tool but requires a bit more knowledge to use since its easy to stuff things up with it. For number 4 option you could also make use of some of the online virus scanners while your online(if you don't have access to another computer to download a virus scanner): http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp http://security.symantec.com/ http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml That list isn't fully updated its just what I had from roughly a year ago when I used to do virus removal on a forum. Good post. I’d suggest that everyone run a firewall on their personal computer even if you are sitting behind a router. Layered defense and as mentioned in your post it means that anything that tries to connect out you can prevent as well as giving you a starting point to find it. Hijack this is another handy tool but requires a bit more knowledge to use since its easy to stuff things up with it.
For number 4 option you could also make use of some of the online virus scanners while your online(if you don’t have access to another computer to download a virus scanner):
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
http://security.symantec.com/
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
That list isn’t fully updated its just what I had from roughly a year ago when I used to do virus removal on a forum.

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