My Recent Virus Scan Quarantined 723 Risks! How About You? What's Your Highest?

oh. thanks for the update tracysmith.. I have been under the illusion, that if my antivirus gives out a zero.. my computer is safe.. I am a fool to consider this. ... i USE the AVG antivirus. and it scans my computer every day. almost after starting my computer. I would check out with the other programs also. Backup -- I rely on the system restore facility.. what would you suggest? .. ofcourse, I take a backup of some files on my pendrive. or burn a dvd occassionally.. but it was some months before. please suggest a backup routine.

I am using Symantec Endpoint Protection. I liked it because it has an auto-update of new virus definitions and someone told me Symantec is also the creator of Norton which Yahoo use, so I trusted it. In scanning with Symantec, There are two options: the Active Scan with duration of 1-2 minutes, and the more effective but longer to take, the Full Scan with duration of 30-120 minutes. I don't trust its Active Scan because my impression of it is, it is not effective in hunting viruses, so I always opt to use Full Scan. But with Full Scan, sometimes I feel so lazy running it because it take so much time and lots of memory. So, the supposed to be daily routine of scanning my system, it became weekly. In the past weeks, there were no problem with weekly scans, sometimes yielded zero result, and sometimes 10 to 20 viruses were found. But yesterday, it shocked me so much the number rose to 723!

I've only seen just over 1000 myself. The computer was running slow and crash. I found out the person didn't know how to use the anti-virus program. I would suggest running anti-virus daily for a while.. then weekly. By the way Malware.com is great program that can also be ran that helps to catch some odd balls. Please be careful there some new virus going around that will hide and eat your computer. You slowly loose funcations until the computer crashes. Back up everything important!

wow somebodys out to get all us computer users that so bad. I am glad yourantivirus program caught all of them, thats really humongous too. Right now I only have one virus in quarantine and am glad my 'Avira caught it and put it in quarantine right away.

I don't know if Symantec is just fooling me! I'm thinking of replacing it for some time with other antivirus programs to see if Symantec is telling the truth and not just fooling me inventing files again and again just to make it appear that they are so good in scanning viruses...

500, that's quite a number! nod32 is also good, I have used that before. I used ESET NOD32 in hunting system32 viruses. I just replaced it when a friend introduced to me Symantec Endpoint Protection. I think every anti-virus program has its own strengths and weaknesses. There are risks that are easily found by nod32 but not with Symantec, and there are also risks that are easily found using Symantec, but not with nod32. I noticed when using nod32, no risks were found in Temp folder while there were so many in System Volume Information. In contrast, Symantec is good in plucking out viruses in Temp folder but when it passed by the folder of System Volume Information, no viruses were found!

spyware and trojan are simular and yet differnet. Spyware is just that they want to spy on you and get information. Trojans, can hide for a long time and eat your computer. There was a nasty something (forgot the exact name) backdoor trojan. Pain to get rid of.. that distroyed a friends whole computer. I'm not too worried since we enjoy fixing computers but still scan the computer all the time. I use AVG free and Malware. They are great and if I get over my head I go to geekstogo.com and then make my husband fix it if I can't. I been on wikipedia and never had any problems. Most viruses and spyware comes from download adult stuff. Not that you are, but I know friend who do and their computers are always here getting fixed agian.

Oh, I think I saw some of them in the scan result, backdoor trojans. They have been successfully quarantined. But is it true they can destroy a whole computer? You mean not only the software, the program files, the system files, the operating system, but also the hardware components of the computer? In my opinion, maybe the only hardware they can destroy is the hard disk. Am I correct with this? When they successfully destroyed the operating system, it can cause an "improper shutdown" which in turn can result to your hard drive's pin harming the physical part of your hard disk resulting to creating "physical bad sectors" or scratches rendering your hard disk unusable. But is it possible some really nasty viruses like backdoor trojans harm other hardware components like your memory (RAM), or your processor (CPU), or your motherboard, physically destroying them?