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<blockquote data-quote="NZRADAR" data-source="post: 535356" data-attributes="member: 11109"><p>The last time a pc of mine got infected was in the slow unreliable dial up days. I think I was using xp and there was a vulnerability in xp that a worm called blaster was infecting pc's with. I remember starting the pc on that day and within 30 seconds of dial up connection being established a message popped up saying I was going to be logged off and from then on it just kept restarting. You never had enough time to get the patch from Microsoft to fix it. I can't remember exactly how I got a fix for that but I think I got the necessary update patch from a friend. I had no understanding in those days of Malware and its capabilities.</p><p></p><p>There was also a time long before that in the DOS 6.22 and DR-DOS, Windows 3.11 era when just cause I could read the DOS and Windows manual I thought I was some sort of optimization guru who knew how to get every last bit of speed out a PC, of cause it wasn't my PC little mischievous me he he <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> it was my Brother in laws pc that I was kindly optimizing while he hard at work and little did he know of the new Autoexec.bat and config.sys win.ini system.ini changes. Well on that machine I was sure later on I had infected it with a most probably fake windows update file I found that super optimized everything, but that's along time back so I'm a bit fuzzy on the detail <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite118" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />.</p><p></p><p>In recent history my most sweaty sweaty clammy hands moment was when I was very tired late at night and was just doing some scanning of a malware pack and could just not believe that the antivirus product used at the time was not detecting the malware and I was getting frustrated and kept re scanning just in case a cloud detection came through. Well in my tired rung out state I ended up double clicking a somevirus.exe instead of right click manual scan (On My Main PC) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite116" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />yes you heard me right I was not using a virtual machine shame on me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite120" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /> , but you know what... I think I had Malwarebytes Realtime Protection on or "Quickly turned it on" and that's what saved my night from becoming a disaster, as Malwarebytes sprung into action and dealt a death blow to the virus <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The lessons for me , never let yourself get to proud about your security manners, Test these dangerous malwarepacks in a virtual machine with great concentration and care , don't forget to turn on Shadow Defender , and If you are tired or under the weather<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite111" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> and on some meds for what ever reason, just leave the Malware testing for another day, go play a game or go to bed. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NZRADAR, post: 535356, member: 11109"] The last time a pc of mine got infected was in the slow unreliable dial up days. I think I was using xp and there was a vulnerability in xp that a worm called blaster was infecting pc's with. I remember starting the pc on that day and within 30 seconds of dial up connection being established a message popped up saying I was going to be logged off and from then on it just kept restarting. You never had enough time to get the patch from Microsoft to fix it. I can't remember exactly how I got a fix for that but I think I got the necessary update patch from a friend. I had no understanding in those days of Malware and its capabilities. There was also a time long before that in the DOS 6.22 and DR-DOS, Windows 3.11 era when just cause I could read the DOS and Windows manual I thought I was some sort of optimization guru who knew how to get every last bit of speed out a PC, of cause it wasn't my PC little mischievous me he he :rolleyes: it was my Brother in laws pc that I was kindly optimizing while he hard at work and little did he know of the new Autoexec.bat and config.sys win.ini system.ini changes. Well on that machine I was sure later on I had infected it with a most probably fake windows update file I found that super optimized everything, but that's along time back so I'm a bit fuzzy on the detail :oops:. In recent history my most sweaty sweaty clammy hands moment was when I was very tired late at night and was just doing some scanning of a malware pack and could just not believe that the antivirus product used at the time was not detecting the malware and I was getting frustrated and kept re scanning just in case a cloud detection came through. Well in my tired rung out state I ended up double clicking a somevirus.exe instead of right click manual scan (On My Main PC) :Dyes you heard me right I was not using a virtual machine shame on me o_O , but you know what... I think I had Malwarebytes Realtime Protection on or "Quickly turned it on" and that's what saved my night from becoming a disaster, as Malwarebytes sprung into action and dealt a death blow to the virus :) The lessons for me , never let yourself get to proud about your security manners, Test these dangerous malwarepacks in a virtual machine with great concentration and care , don't forget to turn on Shadow Defender , and If you are tired or under the weather:( and on some meds for what ever reason, just leave the Malware testing for another day, go play a game or go to bed. :):) [/QUOTE]
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