What are/were your infections?

People who have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.

Yah because Macs suck so much that no one bothers with it.

I have had so many virus infections in my computer when I only used Windows... Eventually, I learned to deal with them without antivirus software.

In the worst case, I had to boot my computer with UBCD and remove the virus from there, since it gained the control of OS. =O

In the best case, I was capable of analyzing most MSN virus only with a virtual machine and some monitoring and snapshoting tools. For a pair of flash-spreading virus I made some 'vaccines', because of my friends spreading them.

I don't know much about computer but my old on had such a terriable virus that the damn thing frooze and shut down when ever it felt like.Safe mode worked only for a while until the the who computer just didn't work .That thing got allot of viruses thanks to my stupid sister for downloading music off of limewire.

My first infection? You guys are si-, wait... Well, back in the days of XDCC and IRCll, I ran across a fake file that was far too small to be the actual size of the file it was supposed to be. The limitations of compression unknown to me due to my inexperience at the time, I ignorantly opened the file and had an infection. Removal of the infection was fairly simple, it wasn't malicious but rather for a joke.

Shortly thereafter I learned a lot about compression and safe surfing habits, what a coincidence.

That's your problem right there. Piece of s*** software that just lives to distribute viruses.

A Local Virus, named Brontok

Had 3 PCs wrecked when there was no removal and recovery tools made. My whole high school Computer Lab and even the faculty computers got the same virus. It was the worst Virus to have hit my country.

But after someone created the removal and recovery tools, it's now obsolete.

What Kai said and some international ones like Trojan. Once my friend got a virus called Blue Fantasy.

Hmm, the worst that happened to me, in the way of getting your system fucked over by virus, was when i had failure on several different levels that lead to all my dll files being fucked over... ALL of them, so no nice install drivers or dependent exe's, it blew out the ass. I did get my important files before i reformatted.

other then that... not really if your only counting viruses, however assholes is a different story.

Hmm i once had antivirus 2009 or 2010 but i removed it in a hour thank god for public libaries and google

Wouldn't know... never had a virus i couldn't fix or nor the av couldn't.... worse thing i had was the thing 100xp gave me that make my computer meat spin and lemon partied for a hour.

You stupid sacks of shit have actually let your computers get fucked up? Here is some awesome advice to avoid shit like that from occurring. Check all links before opening them. Never download anything, and if you do, scan before running it, no matter the source. Overall, don't be stupid.

Fucking Christ. I am being serious here. I have never suffered through a virus, trojan, or anything. I guess I'm just perfect. >_>

Had quite a lot. But the worst was, autorun.inf worm virus, or so called winzip123 virus. Its a horrible virus that multiplies itsslef and whatever usb connects to the computer the worm spreads to there. Imagine your computer system full of worms that slows your computer to stoneage. It was horrible.

Luckily i found this program that saved me from these billions of worms that multiply over time.

The program is called Noob Killer by Leerz, you can get it here. http://ocxt.multiply.com/journal/item/125

Id recommend checking it out. Its a useful programs that can get out the weirdest viruses. If you have a virus that cant be deleted by your anti virus. I suggest using this Noob Killer :D

So basically.. lets run over all the ones i can think of:

-Trojans, lots of them
-one worm if i recall correctly
-Xp total security
-That msn virus thing


basically, fuckloads of viruses.

Conficker also known as Downadup was the biggest pain in my ass.

You can get virus without downloading son... well without you actually hitting the button on purpose downloading.

I think it was this one virus on my laptop that caused almost (if not all) of my system files to become corrupted. After restarting my computer and trying to restore, I found out that all of my restore points had been erased by it too. My only option was to restore my computer to factory settings. :/

I managed to run my computer without an antivirus for 3 months (completely antivirus free.. couldn't be fucked downloading one/ my internet was shit, and it would have cost me 20$ due to pre paid)
No virus. Install mcaffee, get virus. the fuck?

Run NoScript for FF and you'll prevent the majority of drive-by infections.

For me I've only had one major virus and that's about it.

For those with tons of infections it really comes down to good browsing habits. No matter how good an anti-virus is it can't stop the piece of flesh behind the keyboard from sending their money to a Nigerian prince.