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| airgard 2006-03-24, 2:02 pm |
| Recently I had to reinstal my comp. I had 326 aircraft in all.... I'd
earlier saved my aircraft folder onto disk before I got this new comp.
I checked the discs after reinstallng fs2k2 to find some had cyclic
redundancy. I ended up with 100 planes. I now have about 170....
If youre one of them who write these things...damn you to the damnedest
damnation
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| Dallas 2006-03-24, 2:02 pm |
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"airgard
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> Recently I had to reinstal my comp.
Just curious... how did it get ya? Don't you have a virus scanner?
Dallas
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| Carl Frisk 2006-03-24, 2:02 pm |
| Could be a virus but sounds more like a bad disk drive.
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Anger is a brief madness.
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http://www.carlfrisk.com
"airgard" <supagard@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:441f7e80$0$7600$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
quote:
> Recently I had to reinstal my comp. I had 326 aircraft in all.... I'd
> earlier saved my aircraft folder onto disk before I got this new comp.
> I checked the discs after reinstallng fs2k2 to find some had cyclic
> redundancy. I ended up with 100 planes. I now have about 170....
> If youre one of them who write these things...damn you to the damnedest
> damnation
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| Beech45Whiskey 2006-03-24, 2:03 pm |
| Dallas <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote:
quote:
> Just curious... how did it get ya? Don't you have a virus scanner?
Say hello to Mr. Rootkit. Some pretty scary crap out there for those who
insist on launching executables with unknown origins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
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Peter
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| John Ward 2006-03-24, 2:03 pm |
| Hi Peter,
Rootkit Revealer is a handy little program.
Regards,
John Ward
"Beech45Whiskey" <pjricc@ZZgmail.com> wrote in message
news:109i0igbn41ja$.dlg@ID-259643.user.individual.net...
quote:
> Dallas <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote:
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> Say hello to Mr. Rootkit. Some pretty scary crap out there for those who
> insist on launching executables with unknown origins.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
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> Peter
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| Dallas 2006-03-24, 2:03 pm |
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"Beech45Whiskey"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
Well, I guess things like this generate a lot of jobs for people in the
computer security business...
:-|
Dallas
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| Beech45Whiskey 2006-03-24, 2:03 pm |
| Dallas <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote:
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> Well, I guess things like this generate a lot of jobs for people in the
> computer security business...
Cat and mouse game.
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Peter
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| airgard 2006-03-24, 2:03 pm |
| airgard wrote:
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> Just so ya'll know I got the virus by opening a page...it shut everthing
down except for windows, took over my registry and turned of my
antivirus...the whole process took about 2 minutes and the computer was
toast.
Incidently I got another trojan the other day in a projectai flight plan
package but that was deletable. When I compiled all the files, it
multiplied into 2 BGL files which hi-jacked fs2k2. Norton's latest
update couldnt catch it...I only had to delete the bgls and the flight
plan folder...
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| Dallas 2006-03-24, 2:04 pm |
| "airgard"
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> down except for windows, took over my registry and turned of my
> antivirus...the whole process took about 2 minutes and the computer was
> toast.
Is that true? You can get a virus just by visiting a website?
How does that work?
Dallas
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| Moke G 2006-03-24, 2:05 pm |
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"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
news:Pz6Uf.5754$x94.1166@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> "airgard"
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> Is that true? You can get a virus just by visiting a website?
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> How does that work?
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> Dallas
Hi Dallas -- yes you can, even from what you think are trusted websites. In
my opinion, AVAST anti-virus is the best at coping with these things and
will flag up and stop any virus immediately. It's not always true that you
pay for what you get. In this case, AVAST is completely free, as are the
almost daily updates.
Moke G.
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| FlyingAxx 2006-03-24, 2:05 pm |
| Moke G wrote:
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> "Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
> news:Pz6Uf.5754$x94.1166@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> Hi Dallas -- yes you can, even from what you think are trusted websites. In
> my opinion, AVAST anti-virus is the best at coping with these things and
> will flag up and stop any virus immediately. It's not always true that you
> pay for what you get. In this case, AVAST is completely free, as are the
> almost daily updates.
>
>
> Moke G.
>
>
There is no absolute perfect scanner that I would trust. One
recommendation is, don't use IE, the second is (if possible) to
switch off all scripting stuff and the last (maybe the most
important) one is, do not use any browser with administration
rights. Well, you will need those rights for upgrading from time to
time but that's it.
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Regards
Axel
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