It Freaking Figures

landbeforetimelover · **on:** May 13, 2008, 10:10:31 AM

Why is it that the ONLY computers that get some sort of horrible infection are the ones I NEED the most? I mean, this is the third time in a row my school laptop has gotten some crap from the net and I barely even connected it! Now, my master computer's always exposed to crap and horrible viruses/spyware, but it never gets screwed up. Now, an hour before school starts my entire laptop crashes because of some junk crap that I downloaded. All I did was a google image search!!! Now I have to be late to school because I can't go when I have none of my work. I'm gonna be a few hours late at least. This is one bad bug......... Stuff like this always happens to me. I call a client telling them their computer is almost ready to be picked up, and while downloading AVG a horrible bug infects it and I have to take another hour or two to fix the problems. It really makes me look bad. :angry: I've never understood why this always happens to me, but I'm ready for an explanation.

Mumbling · **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2008, 10:37:14 AM

Ow.. That's not fair at all. I don't have those problems, only anoying little brothers who download virussus into the computer. Since a few months they ask me whether they can download something or not, that helped. We had only had one virus since.

But as you are the only one using your computer, I don't know why it happens(because I think you know what you can or cannot download). It's kind of unfair.

The fact: Nothing goes the way you want it to.
I have got different opinions on that(Schizophrenia??(nah, kidding)).
I think it is correct that nothing goes the way you want it to, because we humans can't make things perfect.
But... Things could work out the way we want to, if we did everything perfect and securly. Like cleaning up everything, or watch where you walk all the time, etc. But.. we humans are too lazy to keep on doing things perfect, so it's our own fault(I'm not blaming you or something)

Heh.. I am a bit weird..

Clawandfang · **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2008, 11:24:35 AM

It's called "Sod's Law". I'm sorry to hear this, but hopefully things should head up for a while now.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2008, 12:22:06 PM

Ugh! Who are the sickos that make those things?

Then again, I have heard that AVG is currently updating their free version. Maybe some flaws are happening and this is the sad result of it all.

Let's hope this is the case and you can go back to looking good again soon.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2008, 02:12:15 PM

The new version of AVG has built in spyware protection. I can kick spybot off of my computer and clear off my startup processes! It really is more improved, but they turned off the feature that makes it ignore the email scanner plugin. I disable the email scanner cuz it uses resources at startup and all it does is scan email through outlook express. Because of this, my status is always "not fully protected". Who stores emails onto their computer anymore with Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other mail hosts? There was a feature in the old AVG that allowed you to ignore the plugin status, but they removed that with this version. <_< Now AVG's always screaming at me with popups "You're not fully protected!!!" and crap like that. :angry:

Mumbling · **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2008, 03:07:57 PM

O.. I never have those emailscanners, they are realllly anoying!

Petrie. · **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2008, 04:05:56 PM

for a while there was some virus/trojan embedded in images and if you loaded one it could nab you. I thought all virus providers could find it and stop it by now. Its kinda old by virus standards.

I can't speak for AVG anymore. I had to turn off the "proactive defense" on Kaspersky which would literatty warn me about every single thing that changed. Turned it off because I'm not that careless. I don't know why these things happen. Depends on where you go for downloads too.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2008, 07:53:40 PM

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for a while there was some virus/trojan embedded in images and if you loaded one it could nab you. I thought all virus providers could find it and stop it by now. Its kinda old by virus standards.

Well, the antivirus system has to know about the existence of the threat in order to prevent it from penetrating your computer. It must've been a very new virus to have gotten past AVG's resistance shield.

NeptuneNavigator2001 · **Reply #8 on:** May 28, 2008, 07:38:05 PM

...Yeah... Unfortunately, sick freaks are always creating new viruses. That virus I told you about a while ago, is such a virus - one that wasn't thought up until recently... (The one that shuts off your CPU fan...

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Hmm; I've got AVG, and I've hardly, if ever, had a problem since... What version are you using, Austin?