Not again…

February 25, 2006 on 9:43 pm | In Computing |

Oh the irony.

I never get computer virusses. I’ve never needed virus scanners or even firewalls, simply because I’m generally not stupid enough to fall for malware or infected attachments alike.

However, ever since I started downloading stuff off of usenet, I started getting virusses.
Just about 3,5 weeks ago I managed to get a virus, so I backed up my Documents and Settings (and with it, my Thunderbird files) and reinstalled my Windows (yay for having a dedicated System partition meaning I don’t lose too much data when I reinstall).

Now for the irony bit: I got a virus again today. And in the same way as before: a fake key generator. Most annoying. According to AntiVir the virus is not a very dangerous one, but it is certainly annoying: explorer.exe stops responding, and with it, my desktop. And I suddenly lost my network connection…

I guess the moral of this story is not to trust crackers :)

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  1. Warez! You should be locked up!

    Comment by Owen Rudge — February 25, 2006 #

  2. The one time I tried to download something horrible and illegal off the ‘net, it was, of course, a virus of some sort.
    Gave explorer some nice toolbar, and had some weird set of processes that you couldn’t end, eating up resources. I managed to get half-rid of it, but when looking at my backups from that computer on my new one, there were a couple infected files.

    /me pats the ~20 computer game CD cases on his shelf

    Comment by SpComb — February 25, 2006 #

  3. oh I have plenty of legally owned games. In fact I ordered one today. I just don’t have money to buy them all, and I do not want to buy something only to find out it’s shite (which is why I also tend to wait for reviews from the magazine I’m subscribed to)

    Comment by GoneWacko — February 25, 2006 #

  4. And that’s why you let your brother test them before you do, same with STDs.

    Comment by Kopa — February 26, 2006 #

  5. can i have ur stuff?

    Comment by prencher — February 26, 2006 #

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