June 17, 200520 yr <rant> For those of you who don't know, my computer is on a network at my house that has two other computers on it. I stick with my computer(It's vastly superior to the others and a heck of a lot less expensive to boot) But my brother, smart one that he is, hops between his virus infested computer and the family computer, which is beggining to get infected as well, downloading everything in sight. Because he hops between computers, even if I had admin rights, I can't effectively limit his bandwidth so the entire network doesn't get bogged down. While my computer is fairly secure, AVG free edition is awsome, some things seep through every once in a while. It's not that big of a deal because AVG picks them up automatically, but the notification pops up over anything that I may be doing at the time and if I click on it, minimizes whatever I was doing if it was a fullscreen application. It's a real pain, but it's worse when I'm playing a source game, like Half Life 2 or CSS, becasue if the game gets minimized, it locks up and I have to end it using Microsoft Task Manager. </rant> I'm not searching for a solution here, because none will come about untill my brother develops a brain and/or gets somewhat computer savvy. I mean the kid failed Computer Applications for crying out loud! This is just a rant to make those of you who don't deal with this 24/7 laugh and those of you who DO know your not alone
June 17, 200520 yr Dude i know how you feel. I wasnt even downloading anything on my computer, and so weird way it went through his computer on to mine over the network. It was a pretty good virus too. Norton had nothing on it as well as his avg. It sent out spam to email address using my ip address. Our isp shut down our internet as soon as they realized what was going on. We had to call a computer technician dude to come help us out. In the end I ended up having to wipe my harddrive and start over.
June 17, 200520 yr Haha, I've got 2 firewalls going, Windows' and one that came with my nVidia board. Plus Norton 2003, Spybot, that kind of thing. Nothing gets through unless the firewall's down, so as long as I'm not dumb and download one, I should be okay. And Phrogg, wasn't that virus something that Indytel got first?
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