Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Virus hunting

There is this annoying hypothetical virus living in my computer right now. It just messed up my accounts and reset my desktop. It is also taking up to one hour just to boot up and shut down, so I've decided not to boot up in Windows until I get this problem fixed.

I've been using xubuntu as my rescue cd and evacuating all the data in the hard-drive. Then, they go to my macbook, which has norton antivirus and some spy/ad-ware sweeper to get rid of any virus in the way.

This situation is just plain strange. I can't find any virus and I've tried Norton, NOD32, AVG and Kaspersky.

So does the virus exists? Either way, I am going to have to delete everything and start over. 

4 comments:

Samuel Poon said...

Scary. On my home network, that would be my worst nightmare on my windows computers.

I agree that the best approach would just be to recover all your data, reinstall windows and just hope that it won't come back again.

Just remember to recover your internet bookmards too.

Eugene said...

lol, yes

Currently, I don't think I lost any data, it's just as if they have been switched around.
And it takes very long to boot and turn off.
And my start menu theme has downgraded.

Eugene said...

My conclusion is simply that antivirus software will not protect you from everything.

And I am a firewall too, so I doubt it will be too easy to just come in.

Eugene said...

Oh yeah,

Ron Paul's new book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto" has come out on top in Amazon.com

He says money goes to the campaign, so I reckon that's a way to donate directly...

Meanwhile, I'm reading about Barack Obama's "Audacity of Hope", which shows just how different his views are from Ron Paul and why people should not switch to voting for him if Ron Paul ever gets out.