Virus attack on Christmas Eve

What site were you on?

To be honest, you should have known better. Sites with the fake antivirus stuff that is actually just an animation are always bad news. Avoid anything like that in the future and you should be alright. Because you got it on christmas eve does not mean it came out on christmas eve, it is probably not a new virus.

Hi, stealthy. People just don't know how to quit don't they!! And we all thought that Christmas was supposed to be a time of happiness. We can't seem to live a day in peace, can't we? Not even on Christ's Birthday. I am glad that you have been able to take your computer to the the computer store. I had another kind of Virus on Christmas, but it was weigh different than the computer virus. It was the Flu Virus. I hope that you and your sister is able to get all of your viruses fixed. I am sorry that this has happened to you both. Hopefully it won't happen again. Thank you for warning us all with a heads up alert.

I've been lucky not to be invaded with such things. I recently installed an anti-virous program after not having one for a while. However I also have my windows secerity on as well. Adjusting those settings on your web browser will help avoid getting virouses. Of course, most of those start as pop-ups. Though if a computer does that, you can do a cold shutdown. Desktop simply unplug the tower's power cord. Laptop unplug the computer and remove the battery. This invokes a cold shutdown. Not recommended but if your computer is rendered that useless, then that's the only way to shut it off.

Wow, Holy God! So did you got your PC repaired. That's kinda sad that someone's doing it in Christmas Eve. Ah, so what's the site that you go everyday? BTW the website's giving you a message? because it's pretty much impossible(for me) to detect virus in HTML. If you use Firefox, you should install WOT(Web Of Trust). I got mined installed. It's an add-on for Firefox. It let's you know which site is safe or not through other people's opinion and experience.

My computer was infected too. I was quite surprised because my computer rarely gets infected. And like you I kept getting popups and whatnot. I eventually ran a virus scan which found a few files that were infected and I removed them. Yet when I restarted my computer, it would turn itself off at the windows loading screen. I had no idea what was wrong with other than the virus delete/corrupted some of my system files. Fortunately, I was able to reinstall the system files from scratch and keep all my personal and program files. They are apparently clean since I have had no problems since I did a reinstall. I hope that you and your sister are able to get your computers repaired :)

your not the only one it happened to. a bug got in to the other lappie on the 23rd, it's not been sent to get repaired yet will be taken down next week. good thing we've got more than one computer in the house.

Wow, someone is busy wreaking havoc and destroying Christmas spirit. Viruses really are a hassle. That happened to me too. And they tell me that I have a lot of virus that it started running some scan. When I used Avast to check my PC, there was no virus. Oh well,thanks for letting me know.