Worms wriggling down my scalp and hair, had a creepy feeling all the while...

I know that feeling Mimpi and i must say i too have had my share of it. Over a year ago, all those creepy crawling,bugs worms, viruses..all over gigabytes of data on all my drives includin my pen drive. The mouse would keep jumping and disappear from the screen. Then the system would hang.
I installed the anti virus and boy was i shocked. The whole day, one message after another kept popping up on my screen. Worst was still to follow and the system files were corrupt.

My system admistrator took the system and cleaned it out, but you know what, i had lost more than 50 percent of my data. Why? He decided to reinstall the OS and formatted the disk. I did not get enough time to move the relevant files. I realised it 's better to be safe than sorry.

I make sure i have an updated anti-virus running all the time now so that i take care of this problem.

And further more, if there are some particular issues caused, then i get to the root of the problem and try and solve instead of having to go what i went throught the first time.
The only thing is that there are so many new viruses coming out there, that it becomes difficult to keep track and the anti virus updation comes much later.

Great to know you have a friend who helped you out doing this. I know that the process can be long and painful. Hope you did not loose too much data in the process?

*Shudders*

Ooooh, just reading the first part of this made the skin on scalp kind of crawl. Yuck!

I have only had a problem with viruses on my computer once, and that was a very long time ago. I have my computer set up to run short scans on and off throughout the day. And, it does a thorough one in the middle of the night. And, since my son installed whatever I am using now, I don't even find quarantined files and folders on here anymore.

I am glad you got your computer fixed!

Oh my God! At times we are so much bogged down about the situation, that we dream really bad about the things. it is also no exception I think. I have got virus infection twice. Once the hard disk crashed.

oh So, this is the reason for your vanishing act mimpi.I was a bit concerned .
I am terribly scared that virus would attack my computer because I can do nothing if it happens and it is very difficult for me to get a reliable person to look into it and my son is on an outstation project and barely finds time for relaxation.
Nowadays, I visit many sites and sometimes the computer is very slow to load. Once it restarted on its own and then screamed at me that the system had encountered a serious error as though I were responsible for it.Actually I had asked it to standby but it decided to have a mind of its own and behaved rebelliously and then lectured me.
Honestly, I got so scared that some virus must have attacked it .So far, so good but of late it has become slow. It is hardly 3 years since this was bought and so can you give me some tips about cleaning the system[myself] periodically?
There are of course some antivirus safety guards in the comp, already installed by my son.

I've been plagued with viruses on my office desktop PC for quite some time now and had to have it replaced on a number of occasions. Prior to being here, I only ever had one serious issue with a PC virus before and that was several years back. On the laptop, I have a few different things running at all times to monitor for viruses so I'm pretty safe on this front I think! (Touch wood! lol) I also use a cleaner program that removes cookies and other crap on a regular basis as well. I don't like the sounds of your dream though, I must say!

Hi Mou,
Long time no see.. Busy in AC.
Exactly i am in the same situation as you. You are lucky that your friend has helped to sort our the situation. My friends say that my PC also needs reformatting, because the control panel in it is not opening.
Please refer my discussion
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1924735.aspx
I have suggested the suggestions given there, also i googled on my own to fix a solution. I take liberty here to furnish the links that i tried so, but none of them clicked and the problem remains.
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-hide-show-specific-control-panel-applets-icons-in-windows/http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/missing-control-panel-icons/46416.html
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/restore-missing-items-in-windows-vista-control-panel/http://help.wugnet.com/vista/ftopic-66764-16-days0-orderasc-.html
And Mou, will your friend try to solve my problem, without reformating windows Vista.

Take care friend and have a good day.

My computer was infected by virus twice in the past when i was young. The problems were so chaotic that i ended up selling the computer to my cousin while my dad bought a new one. Right now being a lot older than i was in the past, i avoid going to website that ask me to download stuff and i make sure my anti-virus is always up to date.

Sorry you had those lil wormy things crawling everywhere.
Hopefully now you have them taken care of. I have in the past,
been infected by them as well. I had to get my friend to reformat
everything. That is no fun,whatsoever! Now I do try my best to
keep my computer clean and free of the pesky things. I clean
cookies, defrag,etc... once or twice a week. So far, let me eat
a piece of wood, it has helped tremedously! I haven't had any
infection or what have ya for a long time. Hopefully you won't
have anymore for a long long time as well.

mimpi,
Can I borrow your friend? I'm still being bugged by a virus of some sort. I've gotten to the point where I've given up. I try to respond to the few people I left their notifications on but each time I have to sign on. How annoying is that? I'm really happy for you and your computer.xoxoxo
leenie

Good for you. Online viruses are all around and they mainly target everybody. One must be careful enough especially when visiting suspicious sites or when downloading certain files.

I am very much impressed with NOD32 because it does its job pretty well. If you would mind, I recommend NOD32 for you as your main antivirus for your machine.