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<blockquote data-quote="brambedkar59" data-source="post: 989514" data-attributes="member: 61084"><p>First AV I had ever used on my PC was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusBuster" target="_blank">VirusBuster</a> in 2009, I didn't knew about even basic PC things like copying/moving/creating/deleting file at that point. I didn't knew about filesystem/networking or what the hell is a GPU. Well long story short I didn't had internet at that time, so no virus definition updates for VirusBuster and in 2-3 years my PC was full of worms, trojans and what not thanks to USB drives infections and I didn't even knew I was infected. Basically VirusBuster was getting busted by malware so hard I couldn't even open it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite126" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />.</p><p>I created a thread on <a href="http://forums.malwarebytes.com" target="_blank">forums.malwarebytes.com</a> because I couldn't install/uninstall KIS from my system (had no clue about infection). And <a href="https://forums.malwarebytes.com/profile/2622-maurice-naggar/" target="_blank">Maurice Naggar</a> from MB forum helped me in removing infection from my PC (In the end I clean installed Windows just to be sure). Here is the <a href="https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/118781-help-cant-installuninstall-kaspersky-internet-securitykis-2012-2013/" target="_blank">link</a> to that thread from MB forum from 2012.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/118781-help-cant-installuninstall-kaspersky-internet-securitykis-2012-2013/?do=findComment&comment=620599" target="_blank">This Post</a> from Maurice Naggar is what made me curious about PC/online security and safe practices that I take for granted now.</p><p></p><p>PC specs: Glorious single core AMD Athlon Processor LE-1640 with a single stick of 2 GB DDR2 RAM & Asus M2A-MX motherboard integrated ATI Radeon graphics on Windows XP OS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brambedkar59, post: 989514, member: 61084"] First AV I had ever used on my PC was [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusBuster']VirusBuster[/URL] in 2009, I didn't knew about even basic PC things like copying/moving/creating/deleting file at that point. I didn't knew about filesystem/networking or what the hell is a GPU. Well long story short I didn't had internet at that time, so no virus definition updates for VirusBuster and in 2-3 years my PC was full of worms, trojans and what not thanks to USB drives infections and I didn't even knew I was infected. Basically VirusBuster was getting busted by malware so hard I couldn't even open it :ROFLMAO:. I created a thread on [URL='http://forums.malwarebytes.com']forums.malwarebytes.com[/URL] because I couldn't install/uninstall KIS from my system (had no clue about infection). And [URL='https://forums.malwarebytes.com/profile/2622-maurice-naggar/']Maurice Naggar[/URL] from MB forum helped me in removing infection from my PC (In the end I clean installed Windows just to be sure). Here is the [URL='https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/118781-help-cant-installuninstall-kaspersky-internet-securitykis-2012-2013/']link[/URL] to that thread from MB forum from 2012. [URL='https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/118781-help-cant-installuninstall-kaspersky-internet-securitykis-2012-2013/?do=findComment&comment=620599']This Post[/URL] from Maurice Naggar is what made me curious about PC/online security and safe practices that I take for granted now. PC specs: Glorious single core AMD Athlon Processor LE-1640 with a single stick of 2 GB DDR2 RAM & Asus M2A-MX motherboard integrated ATI Radeon graphics on Windows XP OS [/QUOTE]
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