My computer caught a virus

[SarahK]

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from facebook. It's sorted now, but do I need to change passwords or anything?

Serves me right - I have been ignoring my antivirus' upgrade notices for months. Then Brian leaves the computer unattended for 5 mins, comes back and this thing (the computer said it was a trojan or something similar) took over the computer, wouldn't let my antivirus turn on and started downloading porn!!
Eventually I got got McAffee off its ass and the computer is now free and clear of disease - but I've never got a virus before. So do I need to change my passwords and stuff?

[ralgith]

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Yes you should change all your passwords just to be on the safe side. Also look into a new Antivirus. Kaspersky is what I recommend.

[Vizth Hal]

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Avira is a good free one, bit i agree with ralgith get kaspersky if you can afford it

[Twitchin Kitten]

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You know you guys, it would be nice if you provided Sarah some links.

Sarah, I use Avast free edition and it's pretty damn good. It will block trojans trying to come in and shut the page down on you. McAfee and Norton are absolute crap and do nothing but hog your computer's resources.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

scroll down a little for the list of downloads. Take the second one from the top marked English.
Follow the instructions about registration and what not and you've got a good free antivirus software.

[ralgith]

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*bonk TK* She can buy Kaspersky in her local computer shop

[Twitchin Kitten]

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IF they have that in Australia.

[LKTraz]

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Avast is what I use and have no problems. AVG is good too and also free.

Go to Cnet and you will find both.

http://download.cnet.com/windows/

[ralgith]

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Avast and AVG both miss things though. Too much for me to suggest them to anyone, especially if they aren't really computer savvy. Hence suggesting Kaspersky.

Kaspersky AU

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Your Kaspersky link gets me a page not found error:

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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Please try the following:

Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

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Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

[LKTraz]

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Sarah......

As well as a good virus program you should get a registry repair program and a spyware destroyer.

I use Glary registry repair and Spybot S & D (seek and destroy) and A-Squared

http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Registry-...?tag=mncol


http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-a...?tag=mncol

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

If you run a virus scan then follow with Glary then Spybot and follow with A-Squared you should stay relatively problem free!

A-Squared catches a few things that Spybot overlooks and vice-versa.