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Originally Posted By: Schmoe
Used the boot time scan option from avast last night and Holy Cow Batman...it worked!!!! I choose to scan every single thing and it took about 4 hours. Oh my gosh was there all kind of viruses on that thing....torrents, drp, trojans, and pup files out the wahzoo. Running SO much better, it's almost like a new computer. I think most of them came from her playing Minecraft on-line. Another problem I ran into when trying to do a Microsoft update, I got an error message, looked it up, and the time/date stamp on the laptop was not in sync with Microsoft. Sure enough, it was the right time but the date was 1/3/2011. Got that fixed and updates galore came pouring in. Got me to thinking, could one of the viruses purposely do that? I mean, if your computer is set to check updates regularly or on some sort of automated schedule, but the dates are way off so that Microsoft can't update its software, they effectively won't be updated and there would be no way that software could delete the virus? Pretty slick if your not really anal about updating.
While it is wonderful that Avast finally found the infections with a boot time scan, the fact it didn't prevent any of them would have me tossing it for something that actually would.
Used the boot time scan option from avast last night and Holy Cow Batman...it worked!!!! I choose to scan every single thing and it took about 4 hours. Oh my gosh was there all kind of viruses on that thing....torrents, drp, trojans, and pup files out the wahzoo. Running SO much better, it's almost like a new computer. I think most of them came from her playing Minecraft on-line. Another problem I ran into when trying to do a Microsoft update, I got an error message, looked it up, and the time/date stamp on the laptop was not in sync with Microsoft. Sure enough, it was the right time but the date was 1/3/2011. Got that fixed and updates galore came pouring in. Got me to thinking, could one of the viruses purposely do that? I mean, if your computer is set to check updates regularly or on some sort of automated schedule, but the dates are way off so that Microsoft can't update its software, they effectively won't be updated and there would be no way that software could delete the virus? Pretty slick if your not really anal about updating.
While it is wonderful that Avast finally found the infections with a boot time scan, the fact it didn't prevent any of them would have me tossing it for something that actually would.
