I hear so much crap about "oh make sure your computer is protected" and "get anti spywear" and so on. The virusus and trojans and whatever could slow down your computer, BUT THEY DONT POP UP IN YOUR FACE EVERY 10 MINUETS ASKING FOR YOU TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR VIRUSES. All of the anti virus softwear I have ever used has been nothing but trouble. It will tell you you have 200 viruses on one run, and 18925 on the next, and 15 on the one after that.

I dont want to point fingers, but sometimes you have to point the finger. The worst antivirus software i have ever had was called windows xp antivirus or something. I could not even remove it from my computer; i had to go to the website and remove it from there. All the software did was tell me that my computer was dangerously infected with some random number of viruses, then tell me that i had to pay $100 a month or something to remove them. That is totall bs im not paying a red cent for virus protection, I mean common, Icould buy a decent video card or something for that much.

And if you buy an antivirus cd from some store, that is some bull too because after installing the CD it tells you that you have a 30 day free trial and you gotta pay for the software AGAIN. That is ballony, why in the world someone want to pay for a product twice.

Hey if you ask me, i would rather have the viruses then the antivirus software. The viruses are free, and they wont interrupt you every 10 minuets asking you if you want to scan your computer from viruses, then after you press cancel, just search your computer anyway and tell you have 100 million trillion trojans or whatever.

This is more or less a vent, so keep that in mind before you start to critizise me.

Yeah, I hate Norton, I had to call some place in India to help me uninstall it since it would not allow me to even load cnn.com.

I use the free AVG, I highly recommend it.

Dude, there is no Antivirus software called XP Antivirus. That is a spyware program.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Antivirus

Just reformat and reload all your crap.

Works every time.

There's also no antivirus that you have to pay for a cd trial of.

I'll take annoying antivirus over Virtumonde any day.

Dude, there is no Antivirus software called XP Antivirus. That is a spyware program.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Antivirus

Yah i have the full version, it actually is an amazing program, and i got it for free to thanks to my former company.

Yah i have the full version, it actually is an amazing program, and i got it for free to thanks to my former company.

You got the rogue software for free?

Dude, there is no Antivirus software called XP Antivirus. That is a spyware program.

SPYWARE TROJANS VIRUSES DO-HICKEYS, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME FREAKING THING :mad::mad::mad:

SPYWARE TROJANS VIRUSES DO-HICKEYS, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME FREAKING THING :mad::mad::mad:

Did you even read what he said(or the wiki for that matter)? 'XP Antivirus' is NOT an Anti-Spyware program, it IS a spyware program. As in, your so called antivirus is a virus itself. Get rid of it!

the free AVG stuff works pretty well, pretty much search google for free anti virus works for me. And if all else fails FORMAT, I miss dos equipped computers, so much easier to do that back then.

Moved to the Computer Talk forum.

XP Antivirus is a rogueware. It's not real. Try AVG or Avast.

There used to be a tool called RogueRemover to remove it but it's discontinued. You can probably find it if you google a bit but I can't be arsed right now, especially if someone's gonna generalize all antiviruses to the same thing.

You got the rogue software for free?

ehh i just looked at wiki, you were talking about something completely different.

I hear so much crap about "oh make sure your computer is protected" and "get anti spywear" and so on. The virusus and trojans and whatever could slow down your computer, BUT THEY DONT POP UP IN YOUR FACE EVERY 10 MINUETS ASKING FOR YOU TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR VIRUSES. All of the anti virus softwear I have ever used has been nothing but trouble. It will tell you you have 200 viruses on one run, and 18925 on the next, and 15 on the one after that.

I dont want to point fingers, but sometimes you have to point the finger. The worst antivirus software i have ever had was called windows xp antivirus or something. I could not even remove it from my computer; i had to go to the website and remove it from there. All the software did was tell me that my computer was dangerously infected with some random number of viruses, then tell me that i had to pay $100 a month or something to remove them. That is totall bs im not paying a red cent for virus protection, I mean common, Icould buy a decent video card or something for that much.

And if you buy an antivirus cd from some store, that is some bull too because after installing the CD it tells you that you have a 30 day free trial and you gotta pay for the software AGAIN. That is ballony, why in the world someone want to pay for a product twice.

Hey if you ask me, i would rather have the viruses then the antivirus software. The viruses are free, and they wont interrupt you every 10 minuets asking you if you want to scan your computer from viruses, then after you press cancel, just search your computer anyway and tell you have 100 million trillion trojans or whatever.

This is more or less a vent, so keep that in mind before you start to critizise me.
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THIS IS A BAD POST

well F*** YOU

Warning for language/flaming. - KD

XP Antivirus is a rogueware. It's not real. Try AVG or Avast.

There used to be a tool called RogueRemover to remove it but it's discontinued. You can probably find it if you google a bit but I can't be arsed right now, especially if someone's gonna generalize all antiviruses to the same thing.
AVG or Avast wouldn't help. HijackThis is good if you know what your doing. I might just backup files, format, and reinstall.

I hear so much crap about "oh make sure your computer is protected" and "get anti spywear" and so on. The virusus and trojans and whatever could slow down your computer, BUT THEY DONT POP UP IN YOUR FACE EVERY 10 MINUETS ASKING FOR YOU TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR VIRUSES. All of the anti virus softwear I have ever used has been nothing but trouble. It will tell you you have 200 viruses on one run, and 18925 on the next, and 15 on the one after that.

That would be because it IS spyware in its own. Better yet, you actually decided to click on it without doing a little googling about such strange behaviour.

I dont want to point fingers, but sometimes you have to point the finger. The worst antivirus software i have ever had was called windows xp antivirus or something. I could not even remove it from my computer; i had to go to the website and remove it from there. All the software did was tell me that my computer was dangerously infected with some random number of viruses, then tell me that i had to pay $100 a month or something to remove them. That is totall bs im not paying a red cent for virus protection, I mean common, Icould buy a decent video card or something for that much.

I dont want to point fingers, but sometimes you have to point the finger. PEBCAK

And if you buy an antivirus cd from some store, that is some bull too because after installing the CD it tells you that you have a 30 day free trial and you gotta pay for the software AGAIN. That is ballony, why in the world someone want to pay for a product twice.

Because an idiot is born every minute

Hey if you ask me, i would rather have the viruses then the antivirus software. The viruses are free, and they wont interrupt you every 10 minuets asking you if you want to scan your computer from viruses, then after you press cancel, just search your computer anyway and tell you have 100 million trillion trojans or whatever.

This is more or less a vent, so keep that in mind before you start to critizise me.
Sure sure, I too prefer to have my keystrokes keylogged, my passwords stolen, my computer made a part of a massive spam botnet that really hurts people, and best of all, I just SO absolutely love those zillions of popups you get with some spy- and adware.

Sometimes I think it should be made illegal for some people to use the internet.

Sometimes I think it should be made illegal for some people to use the internet.
That would actually solve a lot of the problems on the internet. No stupid people, no spam...

That would actually solve a lot of the problems on the internet. No stupid people, no spam...
But how will I get my cheap Viagra?

By sending check for 50000$ to verify your good intentions.

Pls stop spamming this thread. Thks.

Reformat. Shell out $50 for an external hard drive for backing up stuff.

Install Linux problem solved