[...] The Worst Computer Virus Attack [...] …

Written by Abdulrehman on September 9th, 2010

26 People have expressed themselves on“[...] The Worst Computer Virus Attack [...] …”

1. Avatar says:

   September 17, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   Thanks for sharing your harrowing experience.

   

   Kelly Reply:
   January 8th, 2009 at 8:07 am

   Use malwarebytes anti-malware software (free) and it will get rid of this. It happened to 2 of my computers even with antivirus software, this anti-malware software fixed both computers completely. Fantastic software.

   

   Abdulrehman Reply:
   January 18th, 2009 at 10:37 am

   Thanks, I’ll take note of that in case such a thing happens again.
2. Gem says:

   November 4, 2008 at 3:31 pm

   Bad torrent experience. Thanks for the tips. I encounter virused torrents once in a while, but my antivirus+firewall which gets updates regularly is a good thing that I have in my PC. I think a personal firewall is now a must-have. Simply having an antivirus running is not enough.

   

   Abdul Reply:
   November 5th, 2008 at 6:48 am

   I never run a firewall, because it somehow troubles my torrent client

   

   Gem Reply:
   November 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

   Too bad.. well it is really a matter of choice then.
3. Perky says:

   November 11, 2008 at 11:38 am

   Thanks for the tips. My sis is constantly downloading stuff using torrent, so I’ll definitely tell her to be extra careful nowadays.
4. Anon says:

   November 15, 2008 at 7:59 am

   You’re pretty stupid for d/ling anything without a form of virus protection. I learned my lesson when I was probably 17 back when “sharing” came in the form of FTPs or BBS postings. For the record, not everything free is good for you and a lot of groups who crack and create trainers will every once and a while take a swipe at you. It’s nothing personal, I just consider it their version of Internet Natural Selection; only the intelligent or at least savvy will survive.

   

   Abdulrehman Reply:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm

   I wonder how ftp can harm you but anyways, I suppose you have to be suspicious about almost everything you download from the internet!
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   January 2, 2009 at 12:49 pm

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6. Gerald Weber says:

   January 2, 2009 at 3:11 pm

   The best advice would be don’t download anything from torrent sites. Most of them are pretty loaded with viruses. May I suggest there are other ways to get the software such as paying for it. Or consider using freeware such as Avira for antivirues, adaware for spyware and so on.
7. Ahsan says:

   January 2, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   hey thanks.
8. rakudave says:

   January 6, 2009 at 9:57 am

   There is a very simple way to prevent this:
   use linux!
   no viruses, no malware, no fuss ^^

   

   Abdulrehman Reply:
   January 6th, 2009 at 11:00 am

   Yeah, Ubuntu and Gnome users do have an edge on this, or shall I say that it is a big advantage!

   

   frank Reply:
   January 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

   I guess I should look into that anti-virus stuff since I am running Fedora and using KDE.
9. Dan says:

   January 7, 2009 at 1:20 am

   Sucks to hear you had such a bad torrent experience, but you learned a very valuable lesson about not just downloading torrents, but downloading anything in general. Unless you are running a linux distro your always at risk, even if you’ve got the best anti virus software. The only way to really protect yourself is to always be suspicious of anything you download. 90% of viruses are hidden in .exe files so the best way to protect yourself if your downloading a program is to only download from trusted sources, or torrents that are few days old and always read the comments. If your suspicious at all your best bet is to not download it, or find a different source.
10. Ray says:

    January 7, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    You could have also booted from Knoppix or similar, mounted your windows disks, and deleted the files manually.
11. Danial Ahmed Rehman says:

    January 10, 2009 at 11:47 am

    ….Zactley why i dont use this torrent sH!7…..
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    March 8, 2009 at 10:40 pm

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13. Sony Lin says:

    March 9, 2009 at 9:53 am

    You can use take your harddisk, and bring it to another AV protected computer to scan and remove all the viruses. This usually works well

    For my laptop, I maintain a dual boot system, Windows XP and Windows XP x64. The x64 is pretty much more virus resistant, so if your Windows XP is infected, boot to the x64 and then clean them up! Or use Linux on your secondary partition.
14. Computer Q&A says:

    May 6, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    I really liked your blog!
15. cheap computers says:

    July 9, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    I maintain my computer very much but virus do come. I think there should be way to remove it permanantly.
16. Torrent download says:

    September 17, 2009 at 6:27 am

    best thing to use it a virtual machine where you can test the software before actually installing it on your PC. Vmware is what I use to first test if the software is legit. I clone the virtual pc and use one of them. If it damages the clone then I’ll know is evil. Perhaps I have antivirus on those virtual machines to detect viruses.
17. Winson @ watch free movies says:

    October 17, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Really I don’t want to be in your situation. I have two antivirus internet security package in my computer and still many time time I feel unsafe downloading any torrent file. I always download torrent file only from reputable torrent uploader with more comments. Thanks for your suggestions and sorry for your data loss.
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19. Trent | Online Business says:

    May 10, 2010 at 2:26 am

    Wow that really sucks! I am extremely paranoid of something like that happening to me so I try to stay as protected as I possibly can. I know this post was written a long time ago but it still serves as a great warning for others today.

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