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    Stupid enought to download a virus...

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by YMW, Aug 22, 2007.

  1. YMW

    YMW Notebook Consultant

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    So I was dumb enough to download a virus. As soon as I finished the download, I was alerted that a program was scanning for passwords and the like, and was advised to get a anti-virus program. Thankfully, it was on my old Toshiba laptop with W 2000 on it, which I don't use hardly at all. But I was wonderin; I shut down the computer and disconnected the wireless card, so the virus wouldn't be able to send any information right?
     
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    Stone825 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It shouldn't be able to send any info if there is no internet connected to the computer. I am not sure how much it may have done when you first got it though. You should be safe in terms of sending anything if there is no internet, you prob. will have to re-format though.
     
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  3. YMW

    YMW Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, I didn't have any really important passwords on there, and I changed all the passwords that I could think of were on there. Does anybody know how quickly the virus would send out the information, once it got it? Or how fast it could get the information?
     
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    I used to play around with keyloggers a LONG time ago...what I can tell you is that if it was a keylogger, the intervals between the logging and the sending can be anywhere between seconds, to minutes, to hours...etc...

    What I recommend doing is writing all your passwords down on notepad, word, etc. and start copy+pasting for a while...just to be safe.
     
    Agent CoolBlue, Aug 22, 2007
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