Christopher said:

Ok so I am sitting at his computer and waiting on reloads and there is this small bottle called fart spray.. So curiosity got the best of me and i gave it the tinyest squirt.... Oh dear God I left that room and can still pick it up in the hall... I think I'll sue the corporation...

I am wounded!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

is it as bad as a stink bomb?

Christopher said:

I so am not kidding you I am 3 rooms away and STILL its picked up... I so want to know where he got that crap... now I know why the bottle is full!

Oh God to be a boy!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

haha!

this sounds like a job for fabreeze!

I've been told by an expert or two that AVG is the best and at the moment that is what I have and it is Waaay better than Norton

I have NOD32 which is the best by far and its reputation superb. It updates continually and I have never had any trouble. You get a 30 day free trial. Take my word for it you have to pay for the best. Funny enough it is cheaper than Norton. Also if you have trouble with your computer i.e. you cannot get rid of a virus - you let them know and they will eradicate it for you.

Fauxie said:

i remember using that once a long time ago and it did work great.but it slowed my system down waayyyy to much.

Ewido

I once had a nasty that norton let through and crashed my computer about ten seconds after I booted up the internet. After searching for hours using 10 seconds of internet each time, I found Ewido which dinfected me.

I loved Ewido that day

http://www.ewido.net/en

I'd hook up the HDD to another system and copy the files I need, then wipe the whole gotdamn thing and reload it with a fresh copy of the OS. just don't copy any executables cuz they might get infected, chances are slim this is a macro virus so any office docs are safe to recover I think. Run them through one or more scan engines before usage though, just to be safe.

for comparing AV software there's nothing better than this : http://www.av-comparatives.org/

I personally use AVG but Avast is just as good imho ...

When reinstalling the comp, create a basic account (almost no privileges) that he can use to do general stuff with. If he wants/needs to install software, he can use the admin account ...

There's lots of best practices around for avoiding this kind of situations ...

One4All4Ever said:

As of midnight last night I cleaned it all up..... its such a pain in the ass..... I did buy a copy of Norton to run in the background so itdoesnt happen again...

I tried Avast and it wouldnt allow it to load no matter what i did... It would now of course but ive purchased the other...


Thank you one4 and everyone..

blueblossom said:

there never is a 'best' antivirus, cuz the anti in the name says it all ... it's a reactive technology and you're always dependent on the updates.
In the latest av-comparatives (an independent AV test) NOD32 gets an advanced+ rating where AVG and Avast gets an advanced rating. I don't have time to read the complete report though ...

Buy a Mac!

RodeoSchro said:

you'd never find your son's bottle of fart spray ...
[Edited 1/14/08 7:47am]

Oh boy!! I haven't been here in the last couple days because I was ineffectively trying to get rid of what I found today was three backdoor trojans. I was trying to go the cheap route, but it didn't work.

Sooooo, I totally removed spybot and superantispyware or whatever that was called, and went STRAIGHT to Symantec this morning. I downloaded the free 15 day trial of Norton Antivirus 2008, and am going to buy that sucker after the trial expires.

It cleaned it all up and now my computer is running fast and smoothly.

gemini13 said:

Same story sister!

AVG Anti Virus is free and it has worked WONDERS for us!
http://free.grisoft.com/d...s/us/frt/0

SpyBot Search & Destroy & Ad-Aware will help take care of any spyware as well and they are both freebies

Hope things get fixed!