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[gin_tonic]

Just a quick note:

I have a Trojan/Virus thing on my computer and I can barely do anything. Trying to find out what exactly is wrong and erase that thing from my harddrive, but I actually know shit about this stuff.

So, I will probably not be able to be in touch till I get to uni tomorrow.

Am extremely sad and angry (mainly at myself for downloading that bastard).

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[gin_tonic.insanejournal.com]

Right at the moment I still have McAfee's trial version (because that has been on the computer when it came from the factory - and now is on it again, since I formatted it back to factory settings), but I will switch back to Avira. Unfortunately Avira didn't recognise the trojan - but me getting it is totally my fault, because I was so stupid to allow it as an admin...

Anyway, I think I'll look into AVG - maybe I should get that instead of Avira. Thanks for the tip!

[akuma_river.insanejournal.com]

God, I hate McAfee. I once had a virus that destroyed my computer, I was lucky in that my hard drive just died and got replaced so when I reformated my pc I lost nothing. The tech guru for the dorm rec'd AVG to me and I've used it since.

I know that one of my brothers uses Avira, but I've used AVG for five plus years now. It updates daily, scans your pc daily. You set the times. The pro version gives you a lot more room to manage things but the free version is what I've always used and it works perfect.

In it, there's an anti-virus, anti-spyware, e-mail scanner, and a resident shield which is basically a firewall. I have the latest version 8.0. Like I said, it's awesome. I've had only a few problems with it and that's my fault for being ignorant.