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Title: severe internet problems
Post by: Richie London on 03 August 2008, 16:09:40

can anyone give me a site i can get an antivirus from, i cant open avg on the internet, i cant use the one i have as it says control update is damaged,
help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1  :( :( :( :(

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Debs. on 03 August 2008, 16:13:39

I use this free A.V program Richie.....`very good. :y

http://www.free-av.com/

Have you tried rebooting in safe mode and opening/running your A.V from there?

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: philhoward on 03 August 2008, 16:17:25

I use Avast - free for home use..
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Richie London on 03 August 2008, 16:19:00

something wiped out everything on my pc, its corrupted my discs when i reset to factory settings, ive lost nearly everything i have going back 6 yrs practically. im on the point of packing in everything completely at the moment, didnt think my luck could get worse but it has, not just pc but domestic as well and health. blow out on the motorway last week, son vanished for 3 days you name it ive got it  ::) ::). but never mind, things could be worse eh

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Debs. on 03 August 2008, 16:27:59

 :'( Awwwww-gawd :(

Keep your chin-up Richie; runs of bad luck like that can`t continue! :-*

.....stop hogging all the bad-luck and give someone else a go. ;)

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Richie London on 03 August 2008, 16:36:16

2944 viruses and spyware  >:( >:(

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: philhoward on 03 August 2008, 17:04:35

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2944 viruses and spyware  >:( >:(

EEEK!

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Bandit127 on 03 August 2008, 18:30:20

Bad luck all round. Hope it looks up soon.

Looks like a complete format of your hard disc is in order. You could well have a root kit in there that could drag some or all of it all back again.

Good luck with it.

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: rickyboy on 03 August 2008, 18:32:45

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2944 viruses and spyware  >:( >:(

Sounds like you've got a trojan horse.  The program you are using to tell you how many viruses and spyware you have is probably the trojan.  As phil says download avast.  Best free anti-virus I've ever used and I've tried all the favourites.  You can get it from www.download.com as well.  Just type avast in the search bar.  Do a boot-scan when it's installed.  Pretty sure it asks if you want to do a boot-scan after you first install it.

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: philhoward on 03 August 2008, 19:34:37

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2944 viruses and spyware  >:( >:(

Sounds like you've got a trojan horse.  The program you are using to tell you how many viruses and spyware you have is probably the trojan.  As phil says download avast.  Best free anti-virus I've ever used and I've tried all the favourites.  You can get it from www.download.com as well.  Just type avast in the search bar.  Do a boot-scan when it's installed.  Pretty sure it asks if you want to do a boot-scan after you first install it.

Do it from the link I sent you, not Download.com.  AVG have recently gone to posting it on there, and the one you download from there doesn't work...took ages to find the one on the AVG server that did.  The wife prefers AVG, I prefer Avast...probably a good idea to have 2 different ones given we are networked!

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Richie London on 03 August 2008, 23:13:18

with a little help from the it man at b and q. i am now virus free.  :) :) :)

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: philhoward on 03 August 2008, 23:15:07

 :y :y :y

Which one did you go for in the end?

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Richie London on 03 August 2008, 23:26:20

i have now got avg 8 installed plus malwarebytes antimalware. hes also got me most of the stuff i lost as well. well happy now and ive give him a drink for helping, well worth it as i was gonna stick it under the forklift in the morning.

its my first night back at work since wed and im on my own with  nothing to do so thank god ive me laptop working again.
 :y

Title: Re: severe internet problems
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 03 August 2008, 23:39:11

Glad you got it sorted Richie  :y

How about this for being lucky......i mostly use a laptop.....for OOF and email which i know is AV upto date..... :y

But i have desktop upstairs which can stay turned for days/weeks downloading...and i use it surfing if im upstairs....it had 7 disks in it.......2 scsi disks internally (one of which it boots off).....2 ide disks internally and 3 scsi disks external configured as 1 disk...

One of the two internal scsi disks died about a year ago. (luckily not the boot disk).......bit of a pain as it had applications installed on it.......tho no big deal....no data lost......just had to reinstall apps as i needed them on another disk...

BUT what i hadnt noticed was the AV software hadnt been starting.....no reason it shouldnt have been as it wasnt installed on the dead disk.....

For sum reason i checked the definition file it was using last week......it was 12 months old  :o :o and the service wasnt running  :o

Restarted the service and it straight away complained the definition file was outa date.......hit update.......and it loaded the latest.... :y

I ran a full check of all the disks.....and it found no viruses......lucky or what  :D