[PC] Grrr...

[jon_chaisson]

As said to both head58 and emmalyon, it's not so much that I have to contend with computer viruses and trojans (AGAIN), as much as it is the time wasted trying to fix the damn thing.

I find this actually quite amusing, considering the dawdling I do when I actually should be writing or doing something else. Maybe it's not so much the fact that time is wasted, as it is that I'm tied into doing something when I'd rather be distracted by something else. Which makes sense in a very weird, simple way. ;)

I have to say most annoying part of it is that this trojan kicked in AFTER I ran all my security programs last night. I did go online after that, but only to LJ, Daily Kos, Yahoo, and Facebook. Out of all of those, I know Facebook might have some security weirdness going on. FEH!

Anyway...looking at it positively. I'm utilizing this as a nice relaxing day in which I can do a bit of reading, shopping (we went to Target this morning), watching TV, and not much else, all while I'm waiting for a few of these programs to scan and find any problems.


Oh--and if anyone has any suggestions what to do when a virus and/or trojan keeps me from going to the McAfee website, the program doesn't pop up on the system tray, but everything else on the PC runs totally fine, please let me know. This is by far the weirdest and least annoying--and yet most troubling--system issue I've had yet. Thanks! :p

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

So you try typing in mcafee.com and it won't let you? Have you tried from different browsers?

Our university webmail has a thing where it says "if you can't load microsoft.com, trendmicro.com or symantec.com you may be infected". maybe check those too? Maybe try one of those other ones? They may have some kind of quick scan you can run online. Or try AVG antivirus - I think they might.

This is from the Mcafee site: "If you notice that you're unable to access Web sites such as www.mcafee.com or your security software is acting up, that could be a sign that your system was infected by Conficker." That may be your problem there...

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

Conficker was my first thought as well, which means he has to get a clean removal tool from another computer: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/04/01/2009-04-01_what_to_do_if_your_computer_gets_infecte.html

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that I can go to pretty much ANY website...except McAfee. I was able to go to Norton/Symantec and other places...I even downloaded a free scan from Norton which I'll try that next. At the moment I'm running one of those Conficker scan thingies, hopefully that might work...

[dollydelusion.livejournal.com]

My suggestion: Drop McAfee and get Avast. It's free and updates itself daily. I've never once had a virus or torjan problem since getting it.