Thursday, November 6, 2008

Sick with trojans..

I have been struggling through for the past few days due to this trojan (malware problem).. my laptop slowly became slow in loading especially during surfing net. The Mozilla took ages to open, and the softwares and games took 10X than normal speed.

When ur laptop is not functioning properly, and some more u need to use it, then life become miserable.

Trojan horse, from the movie The Troy

We have a wide local network in college hostel, about 6-7 hubs connecting over 20 people in guys hostel. I'm the lucky guy coz my room can connect to internet thru wifi. So i share the internet to all ppl, and i think the problem actually came from here.

The trojan was detected from my antivirus Kaspersky 7.0 (Licensed wan okay!) It was something like Trojan backdoor win 32... I cant cure it from the suggestion in internet by cancelling it in the registry. Although it reported that it had been disinfected, whenever i deal with local network things like playing network games or chatting (we use BorgChat to communicate, a cool and free software!), the laptop became laggy..

I formatted twice in the past 2 days. After the first time the problem seemed like still persisted. But thinking back now maybe d2 crashing between Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm (a firewall security software), coz Kaspersky prompted that ZoneAlarm was contraindicated in latter time.

So i format again and everything is working fine, until now. Heard that Kaspersky Internet Security provides the best security, but at a higher price. For ppl like us who play Dota frequently, the firewall is open all the time, its at risk of getting infections.

Statistically, some friends formatted computer recently d2 similar problem. Many frens' thumbdrives which connects to my laptop showed similar infection, something like Worm.Win32.Autorun. So beware of these transmitted agent, scan b4 u open the pendrives!

Beware of these viruses and worms, computer needs a healthy body check-up too!

4 comments:

진릉 said...

Trojans are troublesome. I'm also sick of them, that's why I switched to Ubuntu. Antiviruses and Internet securities are useless. Even the best security software such as Kaspersky isn't 100% effective, and most of the time they create false alarm.

Actually Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm can exist together, just depends on how you do the settings...

Good Luck.

Anonymous said...

haha..my laptop also need a time to check up(reformat)de...just waiting for its deadline..lol

小杰 said...

haha, it's time to format yours computer!

HappY LinG said...

哈哈。。电脑是时候去format了吧?哈哈。。
不然可能人家hack进去你的电脑哦!