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can anyone share there last windows virus experience?

dipsomaniac
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edited 10 October 2018 at 9:23AM in Techie Stuff
When contracted?
what windows os?
type of virus?
what av software installed at the time?
how contracted?
how cleaned?
any other useful info?
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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    When contracted?
    what windows os?
    type of virus?
    what av software installed at the time?
    how contracted?
    how cleaned?
    any other useful info?
    2008
    XP
    Conficker Worm
    Norton
    Work computer. Windows updates hard disabled by administrators, we were unable to enable them. Conficker worked by exploiting unpatched systems and rapidly spread through the network. Only outside contractor machines and patched up servers weren't affected.
    McAfee Stinger
    Not much. It was a worm doing exactly what it was designed to do.... infect systems which the user had been lazy when it comes to updates. The fact it continues to be a problem (Conficker I mean) shows that 10 years on, people are just as lazy about updates as they were back then and I suspect there are still dumb IT blokes who think it's clever to disable Windows Updates.

    Wake up, this isn't Linux.
  • AndyPix
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    edited 10 October 2018 at 11:44AM
    XP and Norton ? Good grief !!


    Anyway - SMBv1 should be disabled on a network as a matter of course these days.


    If its not - your IT dept want shooting


    Edit : Just noticed the date - sorry :)
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Me never .
    Kaspersky Internet Security for years and years .
  • Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
    Blackbeard_of_Perranporth Posts: 7,605 Forumite
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    No, can't say I have had one since Norton picked up a suspicious website in 1999!
  • agrinnall
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    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    When contracted?
    what windows os?
    type of virus?
    what av software installed at the time?
    how contracted?
    how cleaned?
    any other useful info?


    Why do you want to know?
  • RumRat
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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    AndyPix wrote: »
    XP and Norton ? Good grief !!


    Anyway - SMBv1 should be disabled on a network as a matter of course these days.


    If its not - your IT dept want shooting


    Edit : Just noticed the date - sorry :)

    They wanted shooting anyway. They were bang average at their jobs. Most of the engineers knew more about it than they did, but someone has to work in IT Services, even at a software engineering company.
  • Gillor
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    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    When contracted?
    what windows os?
    type of virus?
    what av software installed at the time?
    how contracted?
    how cleaned?
    any other useful info?

    Perhaps a supplementary question…

    And what action did you take, if any, to minimise the risk of possible future infections?
  • 25_Years_On
    25_Years_On Posts: 3,030 Forumite
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    I've only once had any sort of infection and that was recent. I went to a dodgy website which I didn't realise was dodgy. The dodgy site was a cycling video site that came top in the Google video search. Windows Defender dealt with it.
  • System
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    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    When contracted?
    1995.
    what windows os?
    Windows 95 BETA
    type of virus?
    FORM
    what av software installed at the time?
    None
    how contracted?
    Infected menu application on Warez CD
    how cleaned?
    Format, reinstall.

    any other useful info?
    Yeah. Keep Windows and your applications, especially your browser, updated, apply common sense when it comes to opening emails and only get software from trusted sources and you'll be OK.
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