A trojan in Allegiance?

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:29 pm

this reminds me of a common issue I have at work, we have this monster utility that is able to do just about anything, and it triggers almost every AV on the market because its basically designed to do things that the OS may not like.

Best part, trying to boot it up to kill a virus, and the craptastic antivirus installed, tries to block our repair program, completely ignoring the fact its infected 8 ways to hell

Correct · Post by **Correct** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:47 pm

What I want to know is the good kind of virus.

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:52 pm

The good kind of virus would be, like, the kind that forces your computer to participate in a distributed computing project dedicated to finding a cure for cancer.

Post by **zombywoof** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:55 pm

girlyboy wrote:QUOTE (girlyboy @ Mar 23 2009, 12:52 PM) The good kind of virus would be, like, the kind that forces your computer to participate in a distributed computing project dedicated to finding a cure for cancer.

I'd still uninstall that @#(!...

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:13 pm

Well, yes, but to be fair, you're a terrible, terrible person.

Post by **zombywoof** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:21 pm

No, they're terrible terible people. FFS my computer's already slow enough, what's it going to be like after working on a cure for cancer? I wanna play Oblivion!

Post by **FreeBeer** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:53 pm

girlyboy wrote:QUOTE (girlyboy @ Mar 23 2009, 04:52 PM) distributed computing project dedicated to finding a cure for cancer.

You mean something like folding@home?

chromium · Post by **chromium** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:58 pm

i thought those distributed computing clients used idle cycles to do work. and i believe you can adjust its usage, as well as set a number of other things so that your computing experience isn't sucky. or right-click on the task bar icon and hit STOP CALCULATING lolz before you play oblivion

i was pumping out work units on my quad core for awhile. 'twas cool.

peet · Post by **peet** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:03 pm

Google for LIveCD with antivirus on it. Most are free too. Every major AV manufacturer has one.

F Prot example

Psychosis wrote:QUOTE (Psychosis @ Mar 23 2009, 08:29 PM) this reminds me of a common issue I have at work, we have this monster utility that is able to do just about anything, and it triggers almost every AV on the market because its basically designed to do things that the OS may not like.

Best part, trying to boot it up to kill a virus, and the craptastic antivirus installed, tries to block our repair program, completely ignoring the fact its infected 8 ways to hell

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:14 pm

is NOD32 free? if so, provide links ;P