Malware creators SUCK!!!!

[danceswithgary]

I am scrupulous in keeping my antivirus definitions up-to-date, I have my NAV scans scheduled and run them diligently, I don't click on random sites and I STILL ended up with a vicious Trojan installed. I've now spent almost 16 hours trying to get the damn thing cleaned off my laptop. I'm currently on Gary's looking up everything I can. Guess it's a good thing he's still off riding around the country. I have my writing backed up to my flash drive - including what I was working on when I detected the problem but, needless to say, I'm not feeling terribly inspired.

Do you know how many different anti-spyware/malware programs are out there? A lot - and none of them work on everything. The gurus have you run three or four of them to try to catch anything that falls through the cracks. Appalling.

I'm just hoping I don't have to do a full restore because I will lose at least some of my screencaps because an 8GB flash drive isn't going to hold everything and if I go out to buy another one then I'll expose myself to a different kind of virus and MY hard drive isn't as easy to clean. *sigh*

Comments

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Hey, I did the same as you with the virus protection, firewalls and such and I still wound up wiping the hard drive over 4 times in the last month and a half. I bought external hard drives for all my data to be stored on but restoring took up the most time over the weeks and I still haven't loaded all of the programs back in yet. I hate those people too!!

[danceswithgary]

It's horrible how paranoid I need to be - but they really are out to get us! :-/

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Oh, how true is that. My brother keeps telling me I'm too paranoid, and I don't think I'm paranoid enough. I had like 3 different things going on the computer and I still got snagged.