SiDHEaD

Got a suspect looking attachment on my hotmail account from someone on my MSN list.

The little attachments thing on Hotmail said it was "Virus Free". I downloaded it and bam had a load of crap, overwriting my regedit etc.

It was the W32/RBOT-WI WORM!


Moral of the story is Hotmail is still of viruses, and Trend Micro antivirus is utter ****e (it is their name on the Hotmail scanner).

*******s!

darlodge

Trend Micro products (Officescan, Server Protect and PC-Cillin) however are all very good, not sure how this missed the checks

Darren

SiDHEaD

Odd. My AVG caught it as soon as I opened it.

JackClark

We - McAfee - used to do that job for Microsoft. I guess Trend are finding out it's not as easy as they thought.

SiDHEaD

We use McAfee on all our desktops at work

Scoobychick

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I wish Microsoft would go back to McAfee, I felt more confident with them. I use McAfee on my pc and I think it's excellent.

andrewdelvard

100% Agree, tried the rest and now I'll stick with the best.

Iain Young

I tried McAfee and had so many problems with it (on more than one machine) that I gave up using it Using Panda now, and although it's not perfect, it uses far less resources, and has so far caused me far less grief.

ALi-B

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Used to use PC-cillin, it was hopeless. Even though it had all the definitions updated it still couldn't detec viruses.

Currently on Kaspersky (after 1 years worth of Norton resource hogging torture), so far so good

andrewdelvard

Thing with Panda is you can't remove the updater post uninstall. This causes untold number of issues. I had to do a re-install of xp. Couldn't figure out any other way.

Iain Young

Strange. I've uninstalled Panda (when I was trying to track down an unrealted problem a while ago), and had no problems at all. At least it hasn't (so far) let any viruses through the net, which McAfee did.

andrewdelvard

But I take it you reinstalled Panda soon after removing it? Was this before or after service pack 2?

Iain Young

XP Pro service pack 2 installed, and all latest updates etc. The problem was actually in some code I'd written (a service I'd written whilst playing about with some stuff, and I'd forgotten to remove it again). Panda absolutely, definitely fully uninstalled correctly for me.

As an aside, I've also tried McAfee and Norton, and those were swines to get rid of, (left stuff all over the registry which I had to manually delete).

andrewdelvard

Chill! I believe you I believe you think it did anyway....
Seriously though, did you use the installation CD to remove the client shield? Did you not have to pick at the registery? I don't know maybe I missed a Panda service pack.

Iain Young

Didn't have a install cd. I used the internet delivery (download) option when I bought it. Why waste money on cds when you've got broadband

p.s. No I didn't have to hack the registry for Panda