Got an infection warning and *IGNORED* it
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 11:38 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Zachery Speight wrote:
||It was running fine a few days ago until I downloaded AVG 7.5
||and after the installation was completed,
||it saw MS Office apps as threats,
||
**THAT** is the part of the story you left out.
||I told it to ignore them.
||
That wasn't very bright.
Keith Stanier wrote:
|Well I use AVG 7.5 and Office 2000
|but I've never had problems running any office app.
|
As usual, your *Works for me* comment is SO helpful. 8-(
He hasn't mentioned which browser he uses.
My bet is he uses that fragile, vulnerable PoS I call Internet Exploder.
cache of http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
I'm also betting he also does other dangerous things
that will corrupt a Windoze install
cache of http://techguylabs.com/radio/ShowNotes/Show327#toc3
and got his M$Office executables infected in some combination of these ways.
It would appear that there was a tiny window in time
between when he last used M$O sucessfully and when he got infected
--and a VERY tiny window between when he got infected and when it was detected.
(I also note that he doesn't mention what prompted him to get AVG.)
The solution to this is simple and obvious:
Disinfect the files or reinstall the app.
...and if your AV flags files as **infected**, WHY WOULD YOU IGNORE THAT?
People who are going to do that kind of nonsense
should be using an OS that isn't so easily infected.
- Written in response to:
- re: MS Word Will Not Open (Keith Stanier: Friday, February 6, 2009 at 4:28 am)
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