A virus has just possibly killed my laptop.

[REKIBorter]

Three little words - Kaspersky Internet Security

 

[cyfa2809]

norton tells me sometimes when on pinkbike (i think, a perrfectly legit site what i frequent often, might have been ebay, i just ignore it) :? :?

 

[drcarlos]

Lot's of AV checkers will either flag a false positive or not detect anything as malware is different to a virus in the way it works.
The safest way of browsing is keep up to date with patches and not install everyprogram, plugin or activex control unless you understand and trust a website, this is the primary way in for malware and the majority is spread through ignorance.

Now I give you this as a prime example.

I build a PC for a friend for his kids, standard XP build with them having an Admin user account which is pretty standard on XP and within 3 months it's riddled with malware and unusable.
I rebuild the same PC with the same build but this time they get a limited account and no admin rights and their father and me have the admin password, when it broke (PSU failed) 2 years later is still ran fine with no problems, no malware at all.
When I built another PC for a friends kids same things, always a problem and when I go there to take a look there is always this toolbar, that IM program and you ask them who installed it and you get a blank look. Same thing now, limited account.

People may complain but corporates do it for a reason you know.

Carl.

 

[Neil]

Lot's of AV checkers will either flag a false positive or not detect anything as malware is different to a virus in the way it works.
The safest way of browsing is keep up to date with patches and not install everyprogram, plugin or activex control unless you understand and trust a website, this is the primary way in for malware and the majority is spread through ignorance.

Now I give you this as a prime example.

I build a PC for a friend for his kids, standard XP build with them having an Admin user account which is pretty standard on XP and within 3 months it's riddled with malware and unusable.
I rebuild the same PC with the same build but this time they get a limited account and no admin rights and their father and me have the admin password, when it broke (PSU failed) 2 years later is still ran fine with no problems, no malware at all.
When I built another PC for a friends kids same things, always a problem and when I go there to take a look there is always this toolbar, that IM program and you ask them who installed it and you get a blank look. Same thing now, limited account.

People may complain but corporates do it for a reason you know.

Carl.

Agree completely.

Any builds I do for friends / family, or use at home, non-skilled users (ie anybody who wouldn't know, or couldn't fix such a problem) don't get added to administrators. As you say, more work for things like installing games or other software, but much, much less chance of anything bad happening.

 

[marin man]

Guy in the jewellers got hit as well today....from an ebay link..... :?

 

[gibbleking]

we run avg and while the missus was surfing ebay avg kicked in and yelled virus alert and stopped it cold in its tracks...yay for avg methinks..

 

[marin man]

I had a pop up screen telling me that ebay wanted to run a programme on my computer and to click if allowed it....feck off I said :x

 

[cyfa2809]

yeah i know my stuff
no clicky bad linky
seems something is up with ebay?

 

[drcarlos]

yeah i know my stuff
no clicky bad linky
seems something is up with ebay?

Not seen anything and I'm on there a bit, but there again I do use adblock plus and flashblock plugins for firefox so if the infected ads are served up via known ad servers they never even load.

Carl.

 

[legrandefromage]

the problem seems to be hiding in links on ebay adverts

I was checking out Subarus and a big screen came up stating STOP dodgy stuff!