Got my first serious windows virus in years.

[Freiwillige]

First off let me say that i fully condone beating and torture of Virus creators and hackers...publicly where applicable!

I have done so many formats and installs that I thought I had a fort knox built on my latest version of windows Vista.

The warnings worked but allas it was too late and the machine auto rebooted to nothing. A black screen with a blinking curser. Tryed to boot into safe mode via F8 ......nothing.

I downloaded a Red Baron 3d add on freeware pack off a site I know I probably shouldn't have. Clicked the installer and the anti virus went nuts. I shut it all down and now oblivion.

Now I am sitting here with my anti virus boot disk hoping the boot sector can be saved and seething at this invisible villain who put me here.
God just once let me get my hands on him!:damn:

Moral of the story trust your guts and don't let simming greed over ride your judgment, If a site looks scary the file is probably tainted. My Bad:stare:

Rant over!

[HunterICX]

What AV where you using? My Avast or previous installed Norton went nuts before I even could click a file that was infected and slammed it into quarantine before it did damage.

as for beating and torturing these hackers and creators of viruses....I approve

HunterICX

[Freiwillige]

AVG anti virus.

[AVGWarhawk]

I use Avast as well. My theory is hackers will go after the most widely used antivirus (Norton/AVG) because the hacker will get to the most computers doing this. So he or she spends their time looking for the weak spot in Norton but antivirus like Avast is ignored because the users are much fewer. Just a theory of mine. :hmmm:

[ETR3(SS)]

I use a combo of Avira free and Malwarebytes. Every file I download I right click on it and run a scan of the file with both these programs. I haven't had a problem in a long time.

[Freiwillige]

Yea I could have and should have scanned the file first:damn: lesson learned.

Now I am having the issue that since it is a laptop and didnt come with a vista dvd I have to download and burn a recovery disk on my girls pc.

Here is keeping my fingers crossed.

And yes virus creators need testicular mutilation with rusty implements.

[Tchocky]

Have to say that I find Microsoft Security Essentials to be non-intrusive and effective.

AVG lost me after the Google-search scan and the too-frequent restarts.

[AVGWarhawk]

Last night a virus went after my daughters computer. Believe it or not...Windows Defender caught an dumped them right before my eyes. I was astonished. She runs Windows 7.

[August]

You're still playing RB3D? That's one of my all time favorite computer games.

[the_tyrant]

I have to say though, antiviruses i find from china are so much "tougher" than the ones in the west
for example:
Chinese antivirus software scan batch files
you cannot turn the antivirus off without jumping through tons of hoops
you cannot set an exception without jumping through tons of hoops
"cloud" antivirus
"active" antivirus

and this is not just one or two antivirus softwares, almost every antivirus software in China has these features
for some reason, the west is lagging behind, even antivirus software like Norten has less features in its Canadian version:doh:

[Freiwillige]

Yea I have figured out how to get it to run stable in Vista and have been going nuts the past week downloading differant packs for it. The problem is allot of the UOP's websites are long gone so the only places to find them is File download sites. That is what bit me.

[Tchocky]

You're still playing RB3D? That's one of my all time favorite computer games.

Definitely in my top 5 as well.

[August]

Well if you ever get it working again please send some screenshots. I'd love to see what the modders have done with it after all these years.

[Castout]

Viruses they can be distressing. No 2 after manual hacker I guess.

[Freiwillige]

Got it all lined out. Had to create a vista bootable dvd courtesy of microsoft.

Then boot into command promt and repair the Master boot record. Alles Gut!

RB3D has not changed much since full canvas jacket was released. But If you have not seen that then here ya go, big improvment!

http://www.simhq.com/_air/air_073a.html

[Castout]

Good to know everything is now a okay

[longam]

Avast has always been my pick, but I'm testing out MS free Security essentials.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

[Sailor Steve]

Avast has always been my pick, but I'm testing out MS free Security essentials.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
I always used AVG, but one day I somehow bypassed and let a virus in that broke AVG, and it wouldn't reload again. I've been using MSE for several months now and I kind of like it.