When was the last time you were infected?

I just clone the VM before I do my testing on it and delete the clone when I'm finish no harm done it only takes 10 min to make a clone with VMware Workstation!

I have XP Pro SP3 32bit, Vista Ultimate SP2 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit all on VM's so I can make as many clones as I wish of each OS but I always keep a clean VM of each on my storage drive!

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Using MS Virtual PC here and I have base installs of Win 98, XP, Vista and Win 7 32 bit VHD's in their seperate folders on D drive.

When I want a new VM to keep at a certain setup then I just copy and paste the original VHD to a New Folder and assign a new VM to run it.

Win 98 is there just for the sake of it but the funny thing about Win 98 is that the rogue AV's around atm can't seem to run within 98.

 

After using Sanboxie together with Rollback Rx,
I have infection since the Fall of 2007.

 

2008.

I was infected with a file named "Mr.Bean on Show" it also came with alot of other malware after that
I'm running Windows XP as admin and I have an updated Avast during that time.

yea pretty straightforward configuration.
the virus came from a friend's USB flashdrive.

The effect:
my partitions one by one have gone missing... all my data are gone.
I have to repartition and do a clean install of my OS...

it felt like having a brand new PC after that.

 

When I first got my Windows 7 64 bit. I got a back door I could not get rid of. I have installed Windows 7 32 bit now and have sandboxie for EVERY time I go online.

 

I've been using personal computers since the early eighties. To the best of my knowledge I have never been infiected.

 

Deliberately? About 10 minutes ago. Good old Antivirus 7 rogue variation only detected by 3 out of 41 on VT. VM of course. I like to see how Malware infects and what processes it corrupts or utilises to achieve its goals.

A proper infection would be more than 5 years now. Searching for free video (I'll leave it to your imagination what genre!) and clicked to download the required codecs (or rather trojan). Rookie error but hey, untill you know you don't know.

I remember the shock that the pre-installed multi award winning security software had missed it. Back then I believed the hype that these products protected you from 100% of threats.

Best thing that happened to me though as it sent me on a journey which has taught me plenty about my machines and how to keep them safe. Most in the last 30 months or so since coming here. I still use blacklisters because they are mostly very light now a days so why not but primary security is virtualisation, HIPS, good back up strategy and a reprogrammed brain that does not click for free codecs!

Regards

 

As soon as I got internet connection, until I have found out about mallware, then most likely never. But I remember, when I was installing Windows XP without SP, PC was infected before I managed to instal updates and then it was so infected I had to start clean setup again for about 3 times, until I decided to get XP with SP2 from a friend.

 

I don't know if we have ever been infected. The slowdown could have been from years of installs, uninstalls and 256MB of RAM.

In the days of IE6 Norton detected a good few threats. It was probably when we switched to Firefox that Norton stopped detecting anything.

We have since used AVG, NOD32 and back to Norton in 2008/09. AVG detected one or two threats that my dad downloaded.

It has been a few years since being alerted to any threats and now we don't use anti-virus.

 

About a few months ago. I was visiting some adult sites, clicked on a few links of some sites, and got hit with the antivirus soft virus. After that, I bought the paid version of MAB, started to install Sandboxie, used truecrypt, and took advantage of windows 7 backup options.

 

great piece of history. the virus was called ping pong and i remember it very well. almost fun to look at, bouncing here n there.

for the record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-Pong_virus

as for my infections, not one (active) over the last 4 years. seen several on friends pc's though..

 

Well lets see here, last time I was infected was probably last year. If memory serves, it was a worm that bypassed my Avast 5 and Outpost Firewall, attempted to make an average of 28000 connections to some IP everyday (no I'm not kidding, that was the real number) it cloaked itself as a component to my ATI video card. No scanner could detect it, not even virus total. I quarantined the file (manually) and the next day it was nowhere to be found in the Avast quarantine, it was back on my hard drive.

I spoke with Essexboy over at the Avast forums, he had me fixed and up in running in a day or two. Haven't been infected (that I know of... and I'm pretty paranoid) to date!

 

Ah! Beside being nomadic for most, Windows users must also be paranoid. Paranoia in the Windows' world will save your life . Trust no executable, when it comes to Windows of course. Anyway thanks for sharing your experience.

 

I wouldn't trust any executable outside of the repositories in Linux either

 

I agree and that's the beauty with Linux, Don't you think?


Thanks.