Post by: .Batzarro. on March 19, 2010, 02:55:30 AM
Long story short, I had to reinstall everything.. Losing nearly 45GBs of data. Including videos, music, WIP WORK, pics, nearly all my Mugen stuff from the past half year or so (chars, stages, everything), ect., ect. I lost just about everything from the last month or two when it comes to WIPs.
I usually backup all my important stuff monthly but it just caught me at a bad time. Won't be getting Adobe back for another 2-3 weeks. So, pretty much little to no spriting 'til then as I'm not use to any other program for that. -__-
So, yea.. This all happened last night and I just got some stuff working (like my wifi) again about a few hours ago.
Side Note: If anyone has links to some great free adware, spyware, or virus programs, that'd be much appreciated.
Post by: Vitamin on March 19, 2010, 03:01:42 AM
Post by: .Batzarro. on March 19, 2010, 03:05:30 AM
Post by: Vitamin on March 19, 2010, 03:17:55 AM
symantec endpoint protection (not sure if free)
Malywarebytes Antimalware (free)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (http://www.malwarebytes.org/)
spybot search and destroy (free)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html)
Post by: Spidermew on March 19, 2010, 08:51:56 AM
http://www.lavasoft.com/ (http://www.lavasoft.com/)
Post by: ATiC3 on March 19, 2010, 11:35:30 AM
I would recommend these programs:
symantec endpoint protection (not sure if free)
Malywarebytes Antimalware (free)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (http://www.malwarebytes.org/)
spybot search and destroy (free)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html)
To be honest.. you can just torrent symantec endpoint protection.. I did, because I was furious that there wasn't a fully compatible version for Windows 7 when I went to get it... lol...
Post by: Orochi Gill on March 19, 2010, 11:57:20 AM
Also protip: external harddrives
Post by: ATiC3 on March 19, 2010, 01:10:47 PM
This is the best rated 250gb external hard drive on newegg.com... I was thinking about purchasing this as well...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148407&cm_re=250gb_external_hard_drive-_-22-148-407-_-Product (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148407&cm_re=250gb_external_hard_drive-_-22-148-407-_-Product)
Post by: Vitamin on March 19, 2010, 02:06:50 PM
But if those spyware scanners don't pick up anything, there is also these small scanners:
ATF cleaner
Un-hackme
I used these two to get rid of the virus that hijacked my google searching.
Post by: KPT25 on March 19, 2010, 03:55:09 PM
Regarding antivirus,i personally use Avira Free
Post by: DARKTALBAIN on March 19, 2010, 05:22:58 PM
As for the external drives. I got a terrabyte drive on sale for $100
Post by: .Batzarro. on March 19, 2010, 05:36:19 PM
Anyways, thanks for the recommendations, guys. I'll be trying out Spybot and Ad-Aware. Before this I was running Avira and I HATED it. It came with it's own pop-ups which would really slow down the comp at times and took forever to fully come out.
Post by: Sasuke-kun on March 19, 2010, 05:39:59 PM
As for the external drives. I got a terrabyte drive on sale for $100
I also recomend it.
It might look too expensive at first but...
Is like a guardian angel for every important files you got in your HD.
Post by: nick09 on March 19, 2010, 05:42:51 PM
Also the 1TB drives are now worth the cash. Just don't let them drop or take too much damage. This WD external HDD is selling for about $90:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136469 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136469)
Ubuntu download:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download)
Post by: Ohsky on March 22, 2010, 05:42:50 PM
Post by: elee0031 on March 24, 2010, 09:58:05 AM
I would recommend these programs:
symantec endpoint protection (not sure if free)
Malywarebytes Antimalware (free)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (http://www.malwarebytes.org/)
spybot search and destroy (free)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html)
I believe it was about a month or two ago I was web surfing and got the stupid Windows Vista Guardian Malware crap. It leeched onto a few sites I was trying to find some videos on. You need the Malywarebytes to shake it off your PC/Notebook. Vista Guardian looks like a PC Scan telling you, you have a virus on your hard drive. In actuality you don't, it makes you buy there stupid software to remove the program. It actually bipassed my Norton, although I didn't have Malware protect at the time.
You didn't have Norton or Avas? I think everyone at this University uses AVAS as it's FREE anti-virus program. I had gotten Norton a few months earlier through eBay, so I didn't find out about Avas until my friends comp crashed or had a virus.