ZERO Viruses in the ads or something

[CYBER]

I'm running adblock and adblock plus, and the ads on the right side of the forums are always blocked by the extensions (sorry zero, i have it running 24/7 on all sites, nothing personal:P),

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would u think that was enough to block the virus from starting to begin with? or should i do a deep scan with avg anyway?

[What]

yes that means you did not have any issue.

Well thank god, I am not real good with computers and a virus be a pain in my ass to get rid of if AVG wouldn't do it for me

[ZERO]

it was not in the ads it was a hack that was in the actual header that appears on every page of the website.

[XX0wnsXY]

any way that this can affect my phone?

[ZERO]

any way that this can affect my phone?

unlikley

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

as stated before, it was extremely unlikely that it was being caused by the ads......

What if you are that nervous about a virus get rid of avg and use the following.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

and

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...tials-download

both free and take up less cpu combined, then avg.

[ZERO]

spybot is just for anti spyware and you got to pay for the AV part. BTW has anyone actually used the new free version? I still use 1.6.2.46

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

spybot is just for anti spyware and you got to pay for the AV part. BTW has anyone actually used the new free version? I still use 1.6.2.46

i know, that is why you double up with MC essentials and set up a weekly scan while you sleep. Id like to think most of us are responsible internet users. Actually, some people with older rigs might notice a performance boost if they stopped using AVG and Avast.

edit: The newest version is awesome, you still need to pay a box price for live protection but you dont need live protection with spybot when using MC essentials.

[ZERO]

There is no live protection in the older version anyways. I always just used it for the tools, immunization and the weekly manual scan.

[Steamer]

It was called tea timer. There was also another element of protection from BHO's. These were for root kits, memory injections, and browser objects. These were on some earlier versions way back amr not meant as AV. Mainly highjacking adware.