Originally posted by lennyCro
Originally posted by OZSA
most viruses can be easily removed with avast and hijackthis(safe mode)..except rootkits, and ye, if u have any kind of trojan, they have ur password in a second, so whenever you get a virus, first thing is to block ur poker account, just disable urself from playing for a day, and best is to format ur PC giving it another name, with another workgroup (if ur IP is static, it doesnt matter) coz viruses send logs about ur IP/pc name/workgroup so they instantly can enter to you again.. use avast after you format.
Actually, half of these things u said doesn't have to be true.
Expl:
U can remove viruses most of the times with antivirus but sometimes u need to download virus_fix to remove the seed of the trojan because he's the one that "makes new viruses" on your computer.
And it's not true that they have your passwd in a second. Viruses are made nowdays mostly to assimilate your computer into botnet so it can use your computing resources. Some viruses are used to log your keyboard input but it's pretty hard to implement such a thing and send it through network.
Changing workgroup of ur PC won't disenable virus to do his job.
Just follow steps that conall88 gave you and you should be fine.
lenny
ok this guy might seem comforting, but he is clueless. A serious virus cannot be deleted or cleaned by any antivirus, dont joke urselves, because its just time wasting. A serious virus can get any passwords as soon as it scanned ur OS partition. Viruses are made nowadays ...what ? its 2 kind of virus, one that steals money, and one that uses ur PC for a proxy, and its more business in money stealing than proxies. Easiest way to dont let a virus fuck around with you, clean partition, put on the OS, put on all stuff is vital for u, like basics, ghost it, burn it on dvd, and have ur pc cleaned in 2minutes, whatever virus is killing it.
