i TOOK a test on this site i did pretty good actually excellent you wouldn't know it but
one of the questions was could you get a virus through a scanner. i know from the med field that a virus needs a host(a live host) that is specific for it to survive. i chose no and the choice was correct.
i have a question though and the reason why is
i used to never use my d drive for anything
i used to never use a usb mem slap stick either (long ago in college)
recently i have been babbling the satanic verses of the underground computer programs of windows with my mouse (my goal is to start using the keyboard and some commands) during that time i have managed to loose contact with my computer on serveral occasions. i also use the mem stick the same way.
now the question: i got a virus, trojan, a flea, a worm, a roach, in my computer i had downloaded limewire, NEW explorer, mozilla, FOXFIRE, in a short period of time. i noticed if i used explorer the pops happened if i used foxfire it didn.t then it started happening with both. i tried to fight it with my bare hands for a few days no avail (almost)
before i deleted the c drive to start over i used the mem stick to save the windows program because i wanted to study these invaders. so now i have them quarintined in two FOLDERS and some other progrms
could i freely tear them a new DNA without effecting my computer.
how would you and could you explain how to open one of those programs
i can open the ones that look like notepad and it tells you everything it did and how it found you and what it was looking, waiting, and exspecting.
i am as confused as virus in steril file.
i am as confused as trojan at the front door
if you have any idea what i might be trying to ask can you GIVE an attempt to aswer then we might be able to narrow down a pattern.
thank you so much
ruby