What viruses have you had/ your computer detected before?

just a word of warning NEVER get avg unless u are planning on paying the full price as it acts just like a virus after the first 30 free days are up.
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yeah i have had many viruses in my life one which kept opening the DVD player even, but that was on a crappy Fujitsu windows vista laptop. the other day i learnt not to install mods from Russian sites, somehow installing a lada oka managed to download bloody avg without telling me. the next few hours i spent getting rid of it, fun!

 

I can't tell which one is worse.

Murano:
Pros

• Reliable, because Japanese + car = reliable
• Good for the 13 people who wanted one

Cons

• Design is overall very weird
• Build quality is meh
• Underpowered (slow)

Range Rover:
Pros:

• Has a bunch of things to help you while off-roading

Cons:

• Design is ugly
• Unreliable, because British + car = usually unreliable
• Slightly overpowered

I personally think the 2012 and onwards Range Rovers are some of the ugliest cars I've EVER seen. I happen to think the 2005-2012 Range Rovers look much, much, much, much better.

Let's keep this thread on track.

 

Ive never ever dealt with a virus.

 

Random ware, Teslacrypt got it through flash, and lost all my files, I'm refusing to use flash again.

 

REG CLEAN PRO.
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I still much prefer it to html5

 

How did 'Teslacrypt' get installed before it went through Flash?

Well, enjoy not being able to watch YouTube videos in decent quality.

 

html5 sucks hey.

 

ransom ware

 

What now?

 

...and what exactly is the purpose of your posts, @simonfrat123 and @nobadesuuchan?

I call Photoshop. Either that or I need more sleep.

 

No image editing done, apart from cropping the first image in GIMP.
I'm using Firefox 46.0.1

 

Spreads through flash, and HTML5 works good in Chrome anyway for YouTube

 

A simple answer to the question in the thread title.

 

When I was younger I had gotten a lot of adware on my computer.
Mostly because I was dumb back then and didn't know as much about computers as now. Word of advice, Don't instantly download everything you see.

 

If you've been reading the thread, you'd know that this is about the story around the virus, not just what you've gotten.

 

I was mainly just telling the story of the virus I almost had (thanks Windows Defender!) but my main intention for the thread is discussing viruses others have gotten

 

I was doing a clean install of windows 7 on a laptop, and I was so lazy, instead of going in my basement and searching for the product key, I just downloaded a windows activation cracker. (I already had windows 7 installed on said laptop before the clean install, I was not pirating anything.) I usually am extremely good at evading fake download links and all that other stuff, but there is no guarantee what you will get with cracking software. I started installing it after checking off 'no' for all installation crap, and started the install. After it started taking a while to install what should have been a few Mb program, I tried closing it, but it did not let me. I forced quit using task manager, and then uninstalled the partially installed "cracker." It took a long time to uninstall, and I was just playing on my phone, looked over, and it said "uninstall complete." I was happy that I was finished with that... until I minimized the control panel. There was at least 15 new shortcuts, and a very interesting string of words uttered by me. I started uninstalling one, then the command prompt started running with admin access, and started installing many more programs. I just gave up, did a new installation, and activated it with my product key that took five minutes to find.

Wow, this is kind of a modern-style Aesop Fable, with a moral and all.

 

I don't know how those product key crackers (ba dum tssh! no? yeah, that joke was awful) aren't removed from the entire internet. They're stupid, illegal, and most importantly: very illegal.

 

madafucking adware

 

Sadly, they are sometimes needed if you want to install a copy of xp or below, and there is no longer support to have your key re-activated. I really wish that once a Microsoft OS was past support, they would provide a master key, or a version that is pre-activated.