Hive: Musings about Crothian

[Jdvn1]

Man, sounds nasty. Trojans tend to be, though. Maybe I should update Windows now...

 

[ReignMan]

Firefox is extremley slick - Where I work it is actually being touted by IT departments as a solution when IE falls over or run's slowly.

 

[Darkness]

Yep, it was nasty indeed.

It took me two days (with 8-10 hours of work per day) to completely clean up my computer. I'm not a 1337 uber hax0r but I'm not exactly an inexperienced computer and internet user either, and I realized immediately on infection what was happening. I also had 3 anti-virus programs on my computer at the time and easily managed to get a fourth. Further, I had access to two other computers so could I do a lot of Google searching without risk, testing, downloading updates, etc.
A typical user would have been pretty screwed. Though formatting the HD and starting from scratch always works, of course.

BTW, it happened during a Google image search. I clicked on a random search result. The site didn't really load but my computer started working a lot. I rapidly closed the connection but it had still sent me the damn Trojan and a whole lot of spyware.
If I understand correctly, Win XP Service Pack 2 protects against this method of infection. Not using IE easily might as well.

 

[Jdvn1]

Though formatting the HD and starting from scratch always works, of course.

Depends on the Trojan, I think.

BTW, it happened during a Google image search. I clicked on a random search result. The site didn't really load but my computer started working a lot. I rapidly closed the connection but it had still sent me the damn Trojan and a whole lot of spyware.
If I understand correctly, Win XP Service Pack 2 protects against this method of infection. Not using IE easily might as well.

Wow, maybe Google should be informed about that?

 

[Terath Ninir]

Ah. Um. *cough* Actually, I figured he had enough votes.

Looks like I'm the first in line to be kicked out.

I didn't vote for him, either. Same reason.

Darkness: I did vote for you, mang! Not that it seems to have helped any. Bummer about the computer, too...

 

[Crothian]

so, none of you all voted for me??

 

[Jdvn1]

I didn't vote for him, either. Same reason.

Darkness: I did vote for you, mang! Not that it seems to have helped any. Bummer about the computer, too...

I voted for you too, Darkness! Next year, if you want, I'll help you come up with a campaign speech...

 

[Jdvn1]

so, none of you all voted for me??

How could we not vote for the Hivemind Representative?

 

[Terath Ninir]

so, none of you all voted for me??

Nope, nobody voted for you. All the votes are illusionary.

I also voted for Nisarg. Everybody should have voted for Nisarg!!!!!

 

[Jdvn1]

Nope, nobody voted for you. All the votes are illusionary.

I also voted for Nisarg. Everybody should have voted for Nisarg!!!!!

Anyone whose name, backwards, is Grasin gets my vote.