Thank god for Avast
 

I was browsing a polish site (in English) for a game series called 18 Wheels of Steel (a trucking simulation), when I suddenly got an installation window for something called "Trusty Anti-Virus". Naturally, that set off the ALAAAARM bells, so I unplugged the network lead, ran task manager, and spotted at least 6 suspicious processes, which I ended immediatley. Then I started Avast! Anti-virus, which scans your running memory before loading up, and it detected the little son of a bitch that infected my computer. Then it offered a boot time scan (when nothing is running, like ChkDsk) which it is now performing.

I know it was just that site, because this laptop has been connected the whole time and has gotten nothing. (Does wireless affect the transmission of viruses?)

I'm not too happy to hear it let something infect your system in the first place.

-S

18 Wheels of Steel is a good little game. LOTS of potential comedy and surprises worked into it (The Alien spaceship caught me off guard completely ! Hehehe) For a piece of budget software, it's not bad at all. I would go to the manufacturer's page to look it up and not some random "Polish" page.:D

No, I went there because it's one of the few places where I can download mods. I wanted to desperatley replace that awful engine sound. I managed to do that a couple days ago, I replaced it with a real world Mack truck engine :up: It even whistles with the turbo, I was most pleased.