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Golly Moses ...
Dec. 23rd, 2011 09:58 am( Busy morning! )
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droxy picked up a greedy, aggressive virus that not only got through her McAfee antivirus software, but it came to her via DeviantArt, so it got through their firewalls, too:
I got nailed with an AV virus while cleaning up posts on Deviant Art--- that means there is a very aggressive virus. It got through McAffees, it got through my router, and it got through firewall, and it got trhough Deviant Art. I know Kaspersky was better. This virus has been around for awhile, so McAffeys should have caught it.
What I got was called "XP Antivirus 2012" program that looks like microsoft but it is not. My Dell seems susceptable to these type of virus (the AV type). Last one I got was the same type (an AV) but picked up on a different web site.
These virus are nasty as they try to scare you into parting with your money.
One I realized what happened I pulled my lan cable. The viral scum had the program trying to run ping, and I shut down alot of processes on my dell. I have to do a lot of clean up on my dell.
No point in you commenting to this, just be warned and keep off Deviant Art for awhile.
WARNING: I am updating this post to warn you this virus is one nasty MoFo. The fixes on the net do not work. Those are old. This virus has been updated and it overrides windows safe mode (the fix offered on the net). This virus disabled my McAffees, System Mechanic, System restore (the other big fix when nothing else works), and the ability to run regedit (registry edit). In other words, it doesn't allow you to manually remove it. I have a back up hard drive. Yes, a hard drive. We are in the process of wiping my other drive. This is a long fix and a PITA. My advice at this point to all of you is ensure you clean your systems and make a back up to a spearate hard drive if you have one and make a system restore point anyway. If these assholes nailed the DeviantArt server, they are probably on other servers. Last time we got a virus was from a lawn care site and a sewing machine site. Do not think your apple is safe either. What makes these nasty is they come into your system trough your session versus a drirect attack on your computer.
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droxy picked up a greedy, aggressive virus that not only got through her McAfee antivirus software, but it came to her via DeviantArt, so it got through their firewalls, too:I got nailed with an AV virus while cleaning up posts on Deviant Art--- that means there is a very aggressive virus. It got through McAffees, it got through my router, and it got through firewall, and it got trhough Deviant Art. I know Kaspersky was better. This virus has been around for awhile, so McAffeys should have caught it.
What I got was called "XP Antivirus 2012" program that looks like microsoft but it is not. My Dell seems susceptable to these type of virus (the AV type). Last one I got was the same type (an AV) but picked up on a different web site.
These virus are nasty as they try to scare you into parting with your money.
One I realized what happened I pulled my lan cable. The viral scum had the program trying to run ping, and I shut down alot of processes on my dell. I have to do a lot of clean up on my dell.
No point in you commenting to this, just be warned and keep off Deviant Art for awhile.
WARNING: I am updating this post to warn you this virus is one nasty MoFo. The fixes on the net do not work. Those are old. This virus has been updated and it overrides windows safe mode (the fix offered on the net). This virus disabled my McAffees, System Mechanic, System restore (the other big fix when nothing else works), and the ability to run regedit (registry edit). In other words, it doesn't allow you to manually remove it. I have a back up hard drive. Yes, a hard drive. We are in the process of wiping my other drive. This is a long fix and a PITA. My advice at this point to all of you is ensure you clean your systems and make a back up to a spearate hard drive if you have one and make a system restore point anyway. If these assholes nailed the DeviantArt server, they are probably on other servers. Last time we got a virus was from a lawn care site and a sewing machine site. Do not think your apple is safe either. What makes these nasty is they come into your system trough your session versus a drirect attack on your computer.
