Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:05 pm
AVG somehow doesn't detect some of the viruses, although it updates its virus database almost everyday. What I do is defrag my hard disk, scan for adwares/spywares then do a virus scan. Pretty effective so far, I haven't formatted my PC for almost 2 years now.
Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:17 pm
Well, it's free, so what can you expect? But thanks for the advice, I'm going to defragment as soon as I have time.
Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:19 pm
Some friends advice me to use McAfee, but haven't tried it out myself. Heard that it automatically deletes infected files. 
Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:03 am
I tried AVG, but it was the scanning was ridiculously slow. In regards to McAfee, my laptop has a trial version of McAfee installed on it by default (which comes back everytime I reformat my computer) and my trial for it already ran out, so McAfee isn't an option for me.
I tried using what the top answer suggested in this link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071109021059AAnEz7S
So far, I've got rid of this annoying pop-up that kept saying "You're infected with the Zlob.Xa trojan" or whatever. It's also got rid of this annoying banner thing that said "You're explorer is infected, find out how to fix this" or something along those lines which was always under the first link of my Google searches. Also, whatever my first Google search result link was, it would always redirect me to something related to some IE Defender program (yeah, I'm gonna totally trust your program if thats the link it suggests you to go to in order to fix my virus/trojan problem
). I'm not exactly experiencing the slowdowns from previous before trying that fix. Anyone know a good online virus scanner thing?
I think I was infected with the trojan Zlob.Xa or something along those lines. Here's some info on this IE Defender rogue anti-spyware thing:
http://www.spyware-techie.com/iedefender-removal-guide/
I tried using what the top answer suggested in this link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071109021059AAnEz7S
So far, I've got rid of this annoying pop-up that kept saying "You're infected with the Zlob.Xa trojan" or whatever. It's also got rid of this annoying banner thing that said "You're explorer is infected, find out how to fix this" or something along those lines which was always under the first link of my Google searches. Also, whatever my first Google search result link was, it would always redirect me to something related to some IE Defender program (yeah, I'm gonna totally trust your program if thats the link it suggests you to go to in order to fix my virus/trojan problem
). I'm not exactly experiencing the slowdowns from previous before trying that fix. Anyone know a good online virus scanner thing?
I think I was infected with the trojan Zlob.Xa or something along those lines. Here's some info on this IE Defender rogue anti-spyware thing:
http://www.spyware-techie.com/iedefender-removal-guide/
Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:41 pm
False alarm. Apparently the so called "virus" was from a youtube video that had wierd sounds in the middle of it for some stupid reason. A good thing came out of this: it forced me to do a virus scan and AVG actually found one. Good thing, too.