Now we all love informatics security, but in the past we (pretty much all, not everybody) got infected, or we've recieved a computer to "clean virus"
What's the craziest or the most dangerous infection you've ever experienced yourself or had to remove from a computer?
I remember this one time when i was around 13 years old and from one day to another i couldn't acess to internet. Everything else was alright, i simply couldn't acess to it. Everytime i tried, a pop up would block me and say "You're infected with X virus, if you want internet acess, pay". I went to the system files and in PROGRAM FILES (yeah program files) there was this folder called something like "internet blocking". I was like yeah of course this aint be the virus. Well coder stayed home that programming class. I removed that software and run a scan with AVG (in that time i was protected by AVG). And voila, internet connection.
I really never understood how i got infected either how did the software to block my acess to the web..
What about you?
What's the craziest or the most dangerous infection you've ever experienced yourself or had to remove from a computer?
I remember this one time when i was around 13 years old and from one day to another i couldn't acess to internet. Everything else was alright, i simply couldn't acess to it. Everytime i tried, a pop up would block me and say "You're infected with X virus, if you want internet acess, pay". I went to the system files and in PROGRAM FILES (yeah program files) there was this folder called something like "internet blocking". I was like yeah of course this aint be the virus. Well coder stayed home that programming class. I removed that software and run a scan with AVG (in that time i was protected by AVG). And voila, internet connection.
I really never understood how i got infected either how did the software to block my acess to the web..
What about you?