DemonGoddess Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 There are some nasty trojans and other virus types that are affecting XP and earlier machines. Thing is, most of the software is not addressing the issue, as its geared towards Vista now. If you find a link to Antivirus 2009, do not click it. It's a trojan. Here is a link to free software, which actually addresses the nasties that I mention above. avast! It's free to download and use, simply follow the directions. I already downloaded it earlier, and got rid of a couple RAM viruses nothing else was finding. It's doing a thorough scan on my primary XP machine, so I can actually use the thing again. Vista has something called Windows Defender which FINDS and destroys these trojans and such that are infesting XP and earlier machines. Be sure to keep the definitions for it updated if you have a Vista machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezriee Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Thanks for the heads up! I'd cry if my oldie but goodie got a virus and went down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 tell me about it. I have things that I use my XP machine for, like ftp uploading, graphics, and a host of other things. Still running the scan on it since yesterday (it's got over 200GB of data to scan, so I'm not surprised it's taking so long) which means that I still have to wait to do the forum upgrade and a few OTHER things I use that machine for. I certainly wouldn't modify and/or upload modified files from an infected computer...wouldn't be a good thing at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MortiferLascivio Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 I think I may already be having problems with this; my computer completely, randomly shut down on me yesterday and I have no idea why. It's also running really oddly today. My anti-virus isn't picking anything up, so I may try that software you linked to here to see if it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 You getting any kind of weird illegal function memory calls, where it calls to a program you don't recognize? That's what I was seeing, as well as general hardware performance problems. It took about 30 hours, but the scan finally finished yesterday on my machine . 30 hours to do over 260GB of data isn't too awful bad, but jeez.... In the process, the program I linked to found 3 trojans resident in the RAM, 1 that found its way into the vidRAM, and 15 on my drive itself (plus lotta adware and malware that wasn't quite viruses). My other program was just not finding those nasties. At least my machine is no longer lagging, and doing weird things with the vid anymore , now that the scan is finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Could a virus cause your vid card to fry? Cuz my machine is burning up graphics cards like nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I'd say under normal circumstances, no the vidcard wouldn't fry from a virus. What kind of vidcard are you talking about? It may need a cooling fan on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezriee Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 I'm running three different operating systems in my home now, 98SE, XP and Vista home. I put the new antivirus on the xp system, now I'm putting it on the 98SE. Was running a virus scan on it with current anitvirus and it just randomly restarted so hopefully this new program working with my kaspersky (which has been excellent thusfar) will find all the nasties in my comps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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