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Although the hack won't effect members computer is would be a good idea to down load and run a few anti spy wear progames from http://www.filehippo.com/ a good one is Ad Aware, and Spybot - Search & Destroy.

I also use AVG anti-virus for viri protection

anti-virus programs are a bad idea. I'm always against installing anti-virus on computers.

My brother-in-law (former unix admin)has a state of the art pc and a much faster contection but he has so many protection programs running its very painfull for me to surf the web on it. My computer is much faster and its close to being junk

I just reinstall everything when It stops working.

Why?

Because half of tehm are viruses in themselves...

Alex, I have years of professional experience in securing LAMP applications. I'd like to help out. Please PM me. Thanks.

And my name is George W. Bush and I will start charging 10 cents for EVERY e-mail EVERYBODY sends for ALL ISPs!

IMHO, that statement (and I'm NOT talking about MY STATEMENT) is a "half piece of Doggy Doo Doo"

** Sure...IT IS TRUE that some anti virus programs are "spyware" and "viruses" in disguise! !

** Is NORTON ANTIVIRUS a "virus"?? NO!!

** Is McAffe a "virus"?? NO!!

** Is CA AntiVirus (Computer Associates AntiVirus) a "virus"?? NO!!

** Is your computer highly likely to get infected (or PWNed) by a virus if you don't have ANY virus protection AT ALL?? HECK YES!!



** Do you want to wipe your hard disk "clean" and "start over" EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU GET A BAD VIRUS! I SURE DON'T!

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I usually first create an addition windows directory and try to re-install only the core
files that are needed. If that fails I use one of the many hard drives I have and start
a new install. And then set the old drive as a slave and recover data.

But the funny thing is how little of the files I have are really important. The most critical things I have backed up on a PDA sdisk plus I have a number of cd-roms with
XP, drivers, etc.

Oh I learned to do things this way from college (were the labs are riddled with virus).
You must have a backup plan assuming the worst case situation and a virus
detection program can not handle the worst case situation(a virus that its never seen).

All anti-virus porograms detection libraries are amends every day (at least AVG is) so if you do get a new virus (very unlikey) that the AV prgram does not reconise today it will tomorrow.

Virus, as per their name, copy themselves so making a new folder and delete the old one does not remove them. Viri no not use windows directories

Yeah as for as I know I have never been hit with a virus at home. My registry was
"damaged" by some spyware and I got a message telling me to buy some software to
fix it. So I did a new install.

2 years ago Install a program that had hidden spyware. That was impossible to remove so I reinstalled everything.

I did use f-prot in my windows 3.1 days.

I have Antivir installed on my computer.