The last couple of about 2-3 weeks, my PC has been on quarantine almost everyday. It was reformatted almost every 3 days because of some silly virus and malicious script. Basically it all started out when I inserted my music player via usb connector. Then it had a folder called “The Corrs” in which is really true because I have a whole “The Corrs” album there. Now the problem was that The Corrs isn’t really a folder. It’s an application that has an icon of a folder, wtf! What happened then is that the virus was triggered and the end of my PC! During that time I dont have any antivirus or whatsoever because I am arrogant to think that a virus can never run unless it is triggered. Also I was boastful to think that I know a lot of things on registry tweaking and cmd command lines and so many stuffs. Eventually, my pc was infected and by trying too hard to manually fix w/my own power it got corrupted. Then I have to reformat it.
So the lesson I learned here is to always value your computer’s security. Most of you know that my blog was hacked and I had to tighten up my security measures to make sure those things will not happen again. Wth my computer I was really careless. I don’t have any internet security software as well as my updates for my OS is turned off and just like that. Before (5 years ago) I was obsessed w/internet security. I mean that time I had about 7-10 anti spywares plus other software specifically just for a certain/special type of virus and scripts. Now I became careless because I think since August last year I never had any antivirus and some anti spy for my PC so I think its hard to blame me for not having one since I withstood any attacks for almost a year w/o antivirus. 🙂
Anyway, in as much as we are concern about the security of our wordpress blogs and websites, I think its just the same thing that we should also care about our computers. Most of us not only use computers for making money online, but also for fun, entertainment, and pornography education. So important because a virus can immediately turn all of these down, the same as spywares can easily steal our personal info. What would you do then if these things immediately happen?
What I did now is purchase a copy of Trend Micro Internet Security and had it updated. I also had to update w/some security fixes for my OS and also try to install anti Spywares and have them get updated as well. Things online change up so fast and its crucial to keep up with the changes that happen. You might have the most secure workstation today and maybe everything is obselete the next day!
I don’t have any sort of anti-virus or anti anything for my computer. I removed them because they were consuming a lot of resources. 🙂
I used to do a bit of side work fixing infected computers, and it was always the same stories – they had opened an email attachment, visited a dodgy site etc. And the stories I have seen about blogs getting hack is bad news – but most come about through not securing their config.php file – which contains your database information. If I could make one recomendation, it would be securing that file…maybe I’ll write up a post about it today 🙂
AVG Antivirus is the way to go.
I also used to be like you, not installing any antivirus software on my computer, but after I started hearing stories, I said “Why not?”. 🙂
haha.. maybe you have to upgrade your pc now. Almost all antivirus eats up a lot on pagefile memory… 🙂
hahaha. I remembered the days when my laptop was invaded by a trojan horse and adwares and almost everything. I had 2 anti viruses at the same time, and later I was told that I should have only one. And then, I had an anti spyware too.
I had only one last solution: I reformated it. hahaha.
Now I am getting scared. hahaha
AVG IMHO sucks.. I mean yes they dont slow pc’s down but the signatures aren’t that great. And they are plainly for viruses and they dont provide other useful stuffs
I am using Norton , but it takes up lots of resources
I don’t use any antivirus.. (I have it installed though).. MY PC configuration are soo good that it hardly manages to open more then 4 application at a time 😛
MY previous antivirus was attacked by virus (haha 😀 kidding) 😛
i use nod32 for my pc.
LOL… When you’re antivirus is really weak, then chances are it would be swallowed completely by a virus
it sucks boY! Norton is a big company and I dont really like the way their internet security works..
Security is becoming a big issue these days as more and more people learn about the internet, so does the exploitation of viruses. It’s essential to have some sort of protection enabled on your PC. I’ve seen some very bad cases of computers being infected, which could of been prevented if they had an active anti-virus.
Lets hope you don’t get infected again!
Regards,
John
I got infected with a virus in a similar way just a couple of weeks ago. Reformatting your computer every three days is a bit extensive though! 😀