I haven't browsed anything odd lately, and my girlfriend hasn't (according to the history); has anyone gotten a virus recently? This was the only site I was on today.
I had gotten one a few weeks ago, but it was my own fault. I was trying to play AoE III on my win7 pc, and in my desperation I started downloading anything and everything I thought might get it to work. I didn't find anything but a Trojan that destroyed my MBR.
Only a browser hijacker on an old XP system. haven't been able to root it out yet. It's been on there for a long time, probably came from POGO or some shit the wife DL'd
The only virus I have is in my sinuses, rather than my computer. I can't wait for the day I become a cyborg; then all I need to do is run an antivirus program to get rid of it!
On my PC? Ha! (In my whole life, I've never gotten a virus that has done anything other than just get removed by my AV program)
He forgot to practice "Safe Surfing"! Always put a condom on your ethernet cable, before inserting it in your computer's backside... On a seriouser note, it seems that most malware nowadays gets delivered by compromised sites or ad-servers. Also, never forget the possibility that it's a false positive. If your A-V has the feature of sending the suspect file for inspection, use it. One of Steam's CS:S updates triggered an alert a month or so back. Avira asked if I wanted to send it for inspection, and I said "yes", and two days later, they sent back that it was indeed a false positive.
I have never personally had any that were serious... But being the designated IT guy for my entire family, and with my job (i'm a network/security guy now, but for many years was in a sys admin / pc support role) I have seen some really really nasty viruses. The ones that always get people in my family are the fake antivirus ones.... many of those get down into the kernel or even mbr level and are a royal pain to clean off as they lock down all possible avenues that could be used to disable them. You have to get really creative.
A virus will often sit dormant or undetected on a computer for a very long time. Just because it showed up on that day doesn't meant that was the day you were infected. It could have been waiting for a trigger or you could have just downloaded a signature update that was finally able to detect it.
