While browsing through a trusted website (BBC) on Saturday morning looking through the football news, I got several virus warnings from Avast. So I disconected from the internet as there were several windows trying to open, and immediately started to scan. Avast found 2 trojans, and SAS found 25 infections ranging from trojan droppers, trojans and malware. I restarted the computer to fully remove infections, but upon start up the virus' seemed to attack my antivirus programs (Malwarebytes, SAS and Avast) all would not work. So I did a format and fresh install.
Anyway my query is: Can a virus be used in a 'timebomb' like manner, and be programmed to go off, on a particular time / day.
Cheers.
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perrin_aybara Notebook Consultant
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Yes, but I doubt that is what happened to you. Sounds like a flyby infection.
The site you were on or perhaps an ad served by the site. -
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perrin_aybara Notebook Consultant
Thanks guys.
Yeh I should have scanned in safe mode, but I didn't do this because I had uninstalled Malwarebytes then reinstalled it again and it still wouldn't work, and therefore wasn't prepared to take the risk, (I think I kind of paniced as I have never had an infection as big).So I just went for the clean install. Thanks again for the feedback. -
very strange especially from the bbc website. i would contact their webmaster to report it if your brave enough to go back on the site.
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perrin_aybara Notebook Consultant
Is there such a thing as a vairus 'timebomb'?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by perrin_aybara, Jun 7, 2010.