Trojan virus alert

[eliyes]

My PC has gotten a killer worm, and I'm pretty sure I got it from fanfiction.net. Heads up, people! Keep your virus-killers handy!

Comments

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, I was there today. Hope I'm not infected too.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

SO do I! I'm not 100% sure that's where I got it, but I think it was.

[kalloway]

This is not the first time I've heard of that happening. Shall remember to do Firefox+adblock next time I think about going over there.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I was having to use IE. :(

[kalloway]

Bleh, I'm sorry. I hope it's something you can get rid of easily. Or in general.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Really, honestly, so do I. The virus scan has been running for two hours, has found four things so far and us still at 0% complete. D:

[kalloway]

What are you using? I've heard good things about Malware Bytes and Spybot.

*facepalms* Yes, I realize the irony of my (default) icon. He's a virus.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

>_> Please forgive me, but I'm leery of giving out that particular piece of info in an open post. If you really ant to know, poke me on AIM. Although I will tell you that it's not Spybot. I didn't find that program worked particularly well when I had it. :/

*responds with an icon of a virus-killing program -- in a suit*

[kalloway]

People get weird about antivirus crap. I'm an avast! these days. *shakes head* I've got spybot on the big computer and it just seems to delete cookies. But then again, avast!...

*grins, lacks icons of virus's mommy (she's always naked), so... just a program~*

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

I've gotten a trojan off of DeviantArt before. They just happen.

I recommend a tag-team of AVG Virus Scan and Spyware Doctor.

Spyware Doctor is a paid service, but it is VERY good. It's something like $50/year for two comps. Totally worth it.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

They do. It still sucks. :(

Hmmmm... I may look into that. Thanks for the rec.

[timemonkey.livejournal.com]

I am also having a computer problem. What are the symptoms of your's?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Well, the taskmanager told me I couldn't access it without administrator access -- that's about as far as I got before my virus-check started screaming about a worm.