Viruses=ELIMINATED!!!!

[CokeCanNinja]

So some of you may have noticed that I haven't been on the last week. That's because my computer got a virus, and I had to go out of town before I could fix it. When I returned, my computer was overloaded with viruses to the point of being unusable. The damage wasn't that bad, because I had installed Avast before I left for the week. Well, tonight I did a scan, and it found OVER ONE-HUNDRED AND FORTY INFECTED FILES!!!! I was overwhelmed. But, as I said earlier, I have Avast! I deleted the infected files, the did a boot scan and found a few more, and delted them. Now all the viruses are gone, and I AM A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!

[Altair]

w00t for no viruses! That was a ton of infected files. I had a similar experience a few weeks ago when I downloaded an awesome program called Malwarebyte's Anti Malware, which totally sounds like spyware but isn't. Finally my computer works properly again. No more blue screens, randomly changing from a Windows Vista theme to a Windows 98 theme, or turning off by itself.

[Raincloak]

ugh. They really should teach proper computer hygiene in middle school, right along with how to shower yourself. (Who really needs to hear the latter from their school teacher, anyway...)

I got a really nasty virus once that copied itself at startup; that was when I learned about Safe Mode. God bless Google Tech Support.

The only trouble with some anti-virus programs is they can be a little too trigger-happy. Before I removed the "trial" copy of Norton that came with my current laptop, it flagged and ate a benign .exe program I had downloaded on purpose.

[CokeCanNinja]

Yeah, This computer had Norton. I uninstalled it because it wasn't working.