Hit by a virus

[ashishtx]

I would like to know, have anyone's pc got infected by a virus and antivirus A or B actually protected it?

[BlueZannetti]

-{ Quote: "I would like to know, have anyone's pc got infected by a virus and antivirus A or B actually protected it?" }-Yes.

Blue

[dan_maran]

Yes, on the kids PC a Trojan/Downloader got by AntiVir.


Kaspersky from a WinPE environment got the main files that were skirted into the system, and then Dr.Web found hidden remnants of the installer, a .bin.

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "I would like to know, have anyone's pc got infected by a virus and antivirus A or B actually protected it?" }-

Your question is a little confusing. If infection occured, then the Antivirus didn't protect it.

[C.S.J]

-{ Quote: "I would like to know, have anyone's pc got infected by a virus and antivirus A or B actually protected it?" }-

yes, i have had netsky and it was deleted successfully without any damage to my machine, back in the days when i used to use p2p.

[ashishtx]

-{ Quote: "Your question is a little confusing. If infection occured, then the Antivirus didn't protect it." }-
I meant, did the antivirus catch the virus on the fly or caught it with on demand scan.

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "I meant, did the antivirus catch the virus on the fly or caught it with on demand scan." }-

i got two or three trojan downloaders in the first year of f-secure caught in realtime.
lodore

[larryb52]

yes, Nod32 caught a trojan on that black friday while I was surfing...

[farmerlee]

Yes, back in the days i would open anything and everything without a care in the world and my av saved my behind time and time again.

[marcromero]

F-Prot Antivirus has stopped (3) different viruses, in the past seven years.

[Alphalutra1]

Never, maybe I am lucky ;D (or maybe the viruses are scared of me)

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

[Tommy]

I get about one time a week a virus, etc. by e-mail. :(
NOD32 has stopped them all till now. One time BoClean had to prevent an infection.

[waters]

2 TIMES,Once with avg another with nod,althiugh dont use panda now ,at the time tried it and it alerted me,and checked with others.

[Firecat]

eScan and NOD32 have caught lots of trojan downloaders in real-time. Trend Micro caught VBS_Redlof.A in an On-Demand scan (before I used NOD32 or eScan) and couldn't disinfect it successfully.

Dr.Web and BitDefender too have caught a few in real-time.

[ashishtx]

I found that most of the post saying about trojans rather than viruses. Are trojans outnumbering viruses in this internet age?

[RejZoR]

Have they? Yes, long time ago. Trojans and worms are prevelant type of malware, while viruses (file infectors) are in minority.

[Firefighter]

-{ Quote: "I get about one time a week a virus, etc. by e-mail. :(
NOD32 has stopped them all till now. One time BoClean had to prevent an infection." }-To catch infected mails every week is a wrong solution, look at a better email agent, which prevents infected mails even pass through to your mailbox. I have never got an infected mail when I'm using a free "suomi24.fi" email agent.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

[dah145]

-{ Quote: "I found that most of the post saying about trojans rather than viruses. Are trojans outnumbering viruses in this internet age?" }-

Of course, see it like this virus= screw up a pc, what do the creators get: NOTHING, while Trojans=Control of the victim´s PC, what do creators get: victim´s personal info (CC accounts, Paypal, etc...), can do an attack from the controlled computer, and a lot of other stuff... (installing keyloggers, backdoors,...)

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
I've never seen a virus.
Mrk

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "I found that most of the post saying about trojans rather than viruses. Are trojans outnumbering viruses in this internet age?" }-
yes ;)
Trojans, backdoors, worms and keyloggers are the prevalent threats. Most of them are blended with rootkits.

[rdsu]

Yes...