Comments on: Going Closed Source Day 4 – And a Virus!

By: Quintin

Quintin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:23:07 +0000

Hey Jaco.

I made it past 7 Days! And I am on day 9 and still going strong…

By: Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:45:15 +0000

It took you four days to contract a virus? I think my record is “during install” (haven’t even had a chance to install AV yet – it died approximately 5 seconds after entering the network details before first reboot – ie: AS SOON AS IT BROUGHT UP THE NETWORK). Install without a network connection you say – domain controller says I. How do I know it was a virus? Well, clamav after attaching the drive to a Linux machine (seeing that the Windows wouldn’t boot).

Regarding IE vs FF … I agree with Caroline, just get rid of IE. Oh wait, you can’t use FF since that’s OSS. Crap dude, seriously, I try and munch off my wrists after just being in Windows for ~5 minutes. I really don’t know how you intend to survive 7 days.

By: Quintin

Quintin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:00:01 +0000

Hi Caroline

I mailed our contact with Bitdefender support, let’s see what his solution is…

By: Carolinewest23

Carolinewest23 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:46:59 +0000

I would say get rid of IE, but a more useful advice would be: contact their support, they’re very nice and willing to help; I once had a trojan and although it took a while and they sent me some stuff, it is now completely out of my system.
nice blog!

Caroline

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