Virus

rickjames · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: Virus

My mcafee detected a virus on my laptop, but when i tried to quarantine, delete, or clean it , it wouldnt let me and said it was write protected. Then i exited out and went into safe mode and did virus scan but it didnt find anything. Can someone please help me.

rsstites · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

That's a difficult one without being able to actually touch the computer. Do you have the virus' name? There may be a manual fix. Also I just ran into one the other day that devistated the system files, and after working on it for a day, I actually just restored Windows to the status it was when they bought it...

Fine_Rabid_Dog · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:37 am Post subject:

We need names. Or we can't help you.

rickjames · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject:

THe virus scanner hasn't detected it again, so if it doesn't detect it anymore, I won't worry about it, if it does ill try to find the file name. Ill run an online virus scan too to check again.

rsstites · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

I would do a good spyware scan as well. Some of them pop up as viruses then don't show again.

danizduhman · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:50 am Post subject:

His was actually a trojan though, and those can go undetected for a long time sometimes.

rsstites · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:20 am Post subject:

I take it that you guys took care of it.

Hockeydude121 · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

TIP: Stay away from Runescape!

Sorry it's just that I noticed that when I played, I would get spyware
and trojans all of the time. In my time during WoW, I haven't gotten
a single one, however I never got lag on Runescape like I have on
WoW, so I think it evens out.

rickjames · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

You don't get viruses by playing runescape dummy.

Pyth · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject:

Hockeydude121 · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject:

yeah seriously try running a true antivirus/spy blocker while playing runescape...its pretty ugly in the least. Its an online game where you go to a URL to play, IMO, even though it says its secure, I couldn't trust it as far as I could throw it. And since I can't throw it because its not an actual object....well, you get the idea....

rickjames · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

Hockeydude121 · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

I only put enough money on there to pay for one thing at a time...its a prepaid card so I just add money and go...if I ever lost it, it'd be no big deal because I would never really lose much. That's why I wasn't worried about it.

megadeth · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

LMAO, idiots. How do u get viruses and spyware from runescape? Even use the damn firefox siteadvisor if u dont trust it.

Kidd Rune3 · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

i used swiftswitch and never got more viruses