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Does anyone know how dangerous a trojan virus is??? if you do, what's the best way to get rid of one?

Avast-Windows Defender is what I am using..both free and both seem to work well.

Adware SE also was awesome dunno if free anymore though.

I have had several malware detections caught by my anti-virus when clicking on random armies or cities in game...Add pop ups?

Avast is good too, paid for ones are the best though...

Yeah I have had Malware detections too, not a clue what they are though

I have Norton protection thingy. It recently blocked a hack attempt!

Yeah, that scared me too.

my virus protection can actualy tell me WHERE the virus came from lol, once i got one from Los Angelas, it even gave me the street name  and door number rofl.

Panda is extremely good.

I suggest that you take out your harddrive (by hand) and then use a big hammer and sma*beep* in several peaces, then you toss the remains into a fire, hopefully, you wont be bothered by the trojans anymore, unless you have a home network and the freaking trojan moved over to the other computers in the network... Then you need to smash alot more harddrives.

This was actually suggested to me by my "computer science" teacher in high school... hammer + hard drive = no viruses or trojans.

AVG sux, that was my old one on my old comp. Seriously...dont use that. Macafee owns, its worth the cost.

I used to use AVG and then one day, my pc got swarmed :)
My internet wouldnt work anymore, thus no google or anything to search a solution. Windows firewall shut off and when I turned it back on, after a few minutes it would go back off :) The same with automatic updates :S
There were some more problems but these were the serious ones. When I scanned my pc with AVG it found 13 trojans :)
But the problems stayed. Then a friend advised Kaspersky. So I got it and tried it out. After scanning for hours, it turned up with 22955 trojans :S and 6 real virusses :P Also pletny of adware and Riskware.
Good thing is though that since scanning, all my problems are gone :D
So I advice Kaspersky ;)

Mr. Blast of Darkness Report 12/4/2008 7:46:46 PM

AVG sux, that was my old one on my old comp. Seriously...dont use that. Macafee owns, its worth the cost.

Agree on McAfee. That works.

But do only install the two most vital parts - virusscan and firewall. The "parant"part and *beep* protection is nothing but annoying add-ons (ressource demanding programs).

Could be adware trojans...unless they were serious as he said...

Ah...that probably is it...

Since were talking about computers now, what is about the best site for uploading images? The one I used to use doesnt work anymore :(

Finally! My old site works again :)

Here, decide for yourself whether it were 22955 files or trojans ;)

I think you need to start looking at safer porn.

I used to use AVG and then one day, my pc got swarmed :)
My internet wouldnt work anymore, thus no google or anything to search a solution. Windows firewall shut off and when I turned it back on, after a few minutes it would go back off :) The same with automatic updates :S
There were some more problems but these were the serious ones. When I scanned my pc with AVG it found 13 trojans :)
But the problems stayed. Then a friend advised Kaspersky. So I got it and tried it out. After scanning for hours, it turned up with 22955 trojans :S and 6 real virusses :P Also pletny of adware and Riskware.
Good thing is though that since scanning, all my problems are gone :D
So I advice Kaspersky ;)

   Everyone will have their own opinions about the greatest software out there, but in general, getting the free version of AVG and keeping it updated is pretty safe, you have to go to some reaaally shady porn sites for AVG to get swarmed (if kept updated).

fitesalot AVG SUCKS! I advise anything BUT AVG, seriously...McAfee ownssssss. Never been successfully attacked by a virus, they always get vaulted or deleted immediately, and on top of that McAfee actually tells me what sites are safe and what arent with a green tick or a red cross before I even go into the site.

On my old comp when it got attacked by viruses my AVG did SQUAT! I got it from a game cheat site, I knew there was somethin wrong with it but I didnt think much of it. In the end the comp wudnt even turn on anymore, so we chucked it down the stairs a few times, then hit it with a hammer to make sure it had no chance of being fixed, then we sent it off to our insurance company sayin we "dropped it" and they gave us this rly expensive one that im using now, rofl. 

wel i had AVG an i stil saw my comp die to viruses...lol

Download Firefox, it's better at making sure you don't have to deal with that sort of stuff in the future.

Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware or SUPERAntiSpyware. Should be fine after that. Malwarebytes is better at finding Trojans then SAS.

Get rid of Kapersky to. SLows down your computer. If you want just use AVG.

lol i dnt watch prn im 13, geez, i got my viruses from a cheat site, i kinda thought it was abit of a weird site but it had the game cheats I wanted so i didnt think nutin of it