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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Nov 14^th, 2009, 11:48am I know a numbe of your have contacted me and chris - and probably aussie too lol Had a furtle and I can log into ratmans account no problem so hopefully he should be able to as well no more messages necessary.
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Masiakasaurus Slinging.org Moderator mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 4943 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #1 - Nov 14^th, 2009, 3:14pm what happened?
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Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now
Reply #2 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 8:11am

Ah well - unfortunately it's not a forum related problem.
Had a chat with him last night and in my professional opinion (and after 20 years that's not to be sneezed at) he's picked up a nasty trojan/virus. basically it's blocking .org websites - among other things.
couldn't even get the remote client to run. Another indication that a virus is blocking programs and sites that might help remove it.

On top of that, his computer appears to have a dodgy psu. Or overheating cpu/motherboard.

All of these things I could sort fairly quickly - if he wasn't about 5'000 miles away.

I'll give him a ring later today and see if he's managed to get the remote client running.

Moral of this tale children is DO NOT USE NORTON ANTIVIRUS !
It's about as much use as licorice laces for sling cords.

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4798 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #3 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 11:22am Quote from curious_aardvark on Nov 15^th, 2009, 8:11am: Moral of this tale children is DO NOT USE NORTON ANTIVIRUS ! It's about as much use as licorice laces for sling cords. hey...that's a good idea. ah well, my anti virus is dead anyways.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #4 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 12:37pm check out my new sticky at the top of the admin section. no excuse for not having protection
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jax Interfector Viris Spurii Take me out to the ball game........ Posts: 1161 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #5 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 5:11pm I installed the avg and it has already payed off.Thanks.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4798 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #6 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 5:21pm OK ratman sent me an email via youtube (of all places)
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Masiakasaurus Slinging.org Moderator mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 4943 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #7 - Nov 15^th, 2009, 9:10pm I used Norton until about a year ago and then switched to Avast! Antivirus. Whatever's free. I don't open suspect emails and usually avoid bad websites. They're getting good at hiding viruses now!
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #8 - Nov 16^th, 2009, 7:46am avast isn't bad - but it will slow your computer down and it's not quite as good as avg. The best thing to use is malwarebytes. If that finds anything, it's time to change antivirus to avg
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Donnerschlag Funditor I put the 'K' in "Kwality"! Posts: 685 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #9 - Nov 17^th, 2009, 11:59pm I use a couple of programs listed here. Any good? http://www.instructables.com/id/Several-Easy-Steps-to-Secure-Your-Computer/
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Masiakasaurus Slinging.org Moderator mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 4943 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #10 - Nov 18^th, 2009, 1:10am Quote from curious_aardvark on Nov 16^th, 2009, 7:46am: avast isn't bad - but it will slow your computer down and it's not quite as good as avg. The best thing to use is malwarebytes. If that finds anything, it's time to change antivirus to avg malwarebytes found 5 kinds of adware. durn it.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now Reply #11 - Nov 20^th, 2009, 6:49am lol try a spybot scan probably find a few more - but can take a very long time to do a scan, last time I looked (monday) spybot was checking for over 770,000 different bits of malware. Like I say avast isn't bad - but no single program can catch everything anymore.
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Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now
Reply #12 - Dec 28^th, 2009, 9:56am

I used to be a devotee of the sygate/AVG/Adaware combo but now AVG has turned useless (and a bit evil) I swear by Comodo. Spybot SD and Adaware etc still have their place but they report zero issues since I turned to Comodo.

Sensible habits help too... don't click thru on dodgy porn links, wallpapers, ringtones or bother looking at stupid email attachments from coworkers and rellos.

Use your computer how you drive your car... try to avoid parking in crimeland for any length of time and don't give lifts to strangers. Don't lend it to numbnuts and don't leave the windows down.

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Re: thanks for messages, ratman should be okay now
Reply #13 - Dec 28^th, 2009, 8:21pm

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but now AVG has turned useless (and a bit evil)

and then you woke up yes ?
comodo is okay - not great for some of the more insidious malware.
And completely useless for cleaning up a system infected with tdss or similiar rootkits.

Avg 9 free version is the best on-all-the-time antivirus. not perfect, but better than the rest.
won't slow your computer down and will catch most things.

best rootkit cleaner is simply trojan remover, follow that with malwarebytes and an avg 9 scan and you can clean 99.9 % of systems. for anything else you need experience and manual removal skills

I do this for a living and in 20 years I've never not cleaned a virus from a system. I do know what I'm talking about.

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