When were you last infected?

[Win7nerd]

wahhdiff it was last night eh? :ganja: them hookers are a hive of infections :naughty: hehe (im a bit stoned for the record lol):dribble:

my actual virus infection was like 2-3 weeks ago, my computer had to be reformatted a few times (shit was hiding in ram (wtf?) (w/32 scrible, and many other Trojans lol)

[KotaXor]

Last infected?...wow..can't remember that well.

It could have been after I ditch IE and use FF....maybe about 5 or maybe more years ago.

I use Malwarebyte to scan once in a while, and it usually turn up nothing.

And of course EAV as AV.

[OhMyGod]

My last infection was probably back in 2003 when I got the NSIS Media Trojan from a Firefox extension called Foxie that I downloaded from Download.com.

At the time no anti-malware solution could detected it and I know because I tried them all, F-Secure was the first to be able to remove it but it took about 3 months after it was discovered.

Here is some info on it http://www.schrockin...vensismedia.php

openwares.org was the site responsible for distributing it, later they got took down by the FTC.

It was a horrible Trojan, it would keep installing more crap on your computer in the background.

Finally I had to do a complete reinstall of WinXP to get rid of it.

I haven't had an infection since then, except for accidentally installing the Ask Toolbar for a freeware program. :lol:

Thanks.:)

[jalaffa]

Last time was like over 10+ years ago. Got an e-mail from a serious engineering firm on my contact list with an odd (pretty threatening message). Also in 2006-7 I was caught in using a fake nsane fix for Eset Nod. Luckily it did not work as a such. A not proper working malware it was.

[aalpha1]

The last time I got infected was I think one or two weeks ago, I got infected with an adware (MyWebSearch if I remember correctly, it is a toolbar), my brother had accidentally installed it....!

I got rid of it using MBAM :clap:

But the last time I got infected with a nasty malware hmmmm.. I don't remember It is more than a year ago...

[DKT27]

The last time I got infected was I think one or two weeks ago, I got infected with an adware (MyWebSearch if I remember correctly, it is a toolbar), my brother had accidentally installed it....!

I got rid of it using MBAM :clap:

Zwinky or SmileyArcade toolbar right?

[aalpha1]

The last time I got infected was I think one or two weeks ago, I got infected with an adware (MyWebSearch if I remember correctly, it is a toolbar), my brother had accidentally installed it....!

I got rid of it using MBAM :clap:

Zwinky or SmileyArcade toolbar right?

Sorry I do not remember it exactly but I know that it had something like MyWebSearch in its name...

[DKT27]

The last time I got infected was I think one or two weeks ago, I got infected with an adware (MyWebSearch if I remember correctly, it is a toolbar), my brother had accidentally installed it....!

I got rid of it using MBAM :clap:

Zwinky or SmileyArcade toolbar right?

Sorry I do not remember it exactly but I know that it had something like MyWebSearch in its name...

As long as I know, MyWebSearch toolbar is added to the computer by SmileyArcade or Zwiny who's the partner site of it. So you know where not to go. :P

[Rob400]

It's been a couple of years for myself. I have three computers in the house that have never seen an infection. The fourth, the one I am on now, gets worked over well. It is my testing computer for any new software to be tested prior to going on the main machines. I usually have to reload windows 2 times a year on this machine, not because of infection but just because performance declines when you constantly add/remove programs to test. Sandboxie and EAV have worked well. I also run two firewalls. Look n stop and Comodo for added protection for leakage. So far so good.

Cheers

[nowayout]

About a few months ago. I got hit by a drive by download.

[Makaijin]

If by infected you mean a successful infection then none since I started using Win XP from when it was first released back in 2001. All that time until now I think my security software have only ever intercepted anything less than 10 times.

It really depends if you practice safe surfing habits. I friend of mine can manage to get infected at least once a month, every month. He's the type that "click yes/OK first, ask questions later" on any pop-ups. I've gotten to a point where I just cba to clean his crap for him anymore. I tell him to take it to Geeksquad just so he can understand how it feels like to get repeatly ripped off by cowboys due to his never changing bad habits.

[Win7nerd]

To counter these you can use a windows based app called "hosts man" it will block all scumware site plus possibly more than spybot, although I use it along with hostsman highly recconended also if ff add-on ad block doesn't get everything lol hostman should

[silencer]

It seems almost everyone uses some sort of security tool, so when was the last time you were actually infected? How did you overcome this infection? What new precautions did you put in place (if any)?

Me? I've not been infected in over 6 years :) (probably longer to the be honest)

Last time 2 years ago when I dl keygen/crack - my fault. It was so long time ago so I decided to resign from any av in the background. It useless and consume a lot of resources. I have only cloud scanning on demand (right click).

[Zeus_Hunt]

Its been more than 7 years. Talking abt viruses.

Malware 2-3 years.

Home unit still without Antivirus and Internet.

[oZ.]

3 years ago

[Drolz]

do you consider keylogger an infection, because ive been infected 8 months wayback and eset did not detect it so i shifted to kaspersky. kaspersky deleted it after 1 month i reverted back to eset agian because eset is very light

[HX1]

.. and you tried to give yourself HIV .. or you got hijacked or what happened? :glare: You know you build those colasses up and they say it will drive you to do some crazy things..

Honestly.. I can't remember the last time.. really....

[henz]

really!!!!! nod32 blocked like 10 pics of over 18 young atractive females!!!!!

so nod stated for No pOrn Dude, :P

[Drolz]

really!!!!! nod32 blocked like 10 pics of over 18 young atractive females!!!!!

so nod stated for No pOrn Dude, :P

it might as well blocked some flu viruses

[HX1]

Yeah the site is obviously on a list of known malicious sites.. LOL .. Great program yeah.. BTW that doesn't classify as an infection..

[sloweddi]

Howdy,

I am Sloweddi a new member. I have worked in the computer/IT field for the last 35 yrs. I was last infected today. I was pretty sure I would be infected, but I wanted to test as to which site was giving me the problem.

Unfortunatly this was the third time being infected by the AntiVir Browser redirect virus and like I said it was a test to make certain which site was doing the infecting. Unfortunatly, it was AhaShare.

My current protection is:

SpywareGuard (I know, but I like it)

AVG free

Spyware Blaster

Spybot S&D

Maleware Bytes

SuperAntiSpyware

CWShredder

AV

... and a few others, but you get the idea.

Any thoughts?? I have used Ahashare for a long time with virtually no problems until the last couple of months

[HX1]

Do you know what type of infection? .. and of course how was it detected?

[toyo]

I thought hard, but I think last time I got infected (not voluntarily, like for testing purposes) was back in the days when I used Amiga computers. I think all my diskettes were infected !!! Some with 15-20 virs that competed :P And all the games still worked :)

That was because I didn't have a HDD yet and we were a local community that exchanged floppy disks, it was the only way since there wasn't any Internet available ;)

[AntiVirus]

My PC and laptop never got infected (at least that's what I know).

But 6 months ago my flashdrive was infected by shortcut virus. I just need a little program from smadav.net to overcome it. :D

[BoxingChaos]

I don't remember. NOD 32 has been so good and just keeps getting better :)