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06 Aug 2008, 3:35 pm

The site Twetter has a virus that only attack WINDOWS OS and only APPLE computers are safe no lie. the virus is a trojen horse



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06 Aug 2008, 3:38 pm

I misspelled tiwtter



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06 Aug 2008, 3:39 pm

I misspelled twitter



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06 Aug 2008, 4:51 pm

shugo974 wrote:
The site Twetter has a virus that only attack WINDOWS OS and only APPLE computers are safe no lie. the virus is a trojen horse

Logically impossible. If it only attacks Windows OS, and only Apple computers are safe, where does that leave, Linux, BSD, and Solaris?


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06 Aug 2008, 4:57 pm

shugo974 wrote:
I misspelled twitter

You also misspelled "trojan" and made a handful of other grammatical errors. And there's an "edit" function to correct any such mistakes without making a new post.


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06 Aug 2008, 9:56 pm

Orwell wrote:
shugo974 wrote:
The site Twetter has a virus that only attack WINDOWS OS and only APPLE computers are safe no lie. the virus is a trojen horse

Logically impossible. If it only attacks Windows OS, and only Apple computers are safe, where does that leave, Linux, BSD, and Solaris?
And where the really obscure OSes like Syllable, Plan 9 from Bell Labs or GNU/HURD?


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06 Aug 2008, 10:05 pm

Its called pick up a copy of Norton Antivirus or download Avast Home if your a cheapskate.



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07 Aug 2008, 4:53 am

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Its called pick up a copy of Norton Antivirus or download Avast Home if your a cheapskate.


Norton, eww, hell no. :P

I highly doubt Twitter has a virus though, there'd be a mass uproar over it. You got it from somewhere else, trust me.



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07 Aug 2008, 11:46 am

Ashton wrote:
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Its called pick up a copy of Norton Antivirus or download Avast Home if your a cheapskate.


Norton, eww, hell no. :P

I highly doubt Twitter has a virus though, there'd be a mass uproar over it. You got it from somewhere else, trust me.



Believe it or not but Symantec made Norton not has much of a memory hog with the new 2008 Version. Also its not going to take up that much memory anyways if you just buy the standalone antivirus program w/o the internet securuty crap or norton 360 junk. As a tech i see the program as rock solid and sturdy compared to the rest. Heck, even AVG is now starting to become a CPU Hog. Besides the fact that i know people who quit using Norton and 3 Weeks later I have a house call to clean up their computers after a buttload of trojans bombared the system because AVG toke a nap.[Has On-Access Protection but its not good and it always clitches.] Heck even the so-called godly Kaspersky Antivirus eats up more resourecs.

Anyways make a complaint the the site and have the admin give the site a virus scan.


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07 Aug 2008, 11:58 am

NIS 2009 (on Beta at the moment) has dramatically reduced it's performace footprint ... it's actually very impressive.

However, since I work for the Symantec side of things, I have to admit I'm not entirely impartial



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07 Aug 2008, 2:50 pm

I'm not lieing when I logged out of the net after being on twitter my anti-virus said that I got a damn Trojan virus. don't belive me then here is a link from the stupid news thing I heard it from after I went on the site. url=http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/687899/Twitter_Gets_Hacked_Flash_Virus_Loose.html]G4 the feed[/url]



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07 Aug 2008, 3:04 pm

I highly recommend Avast and its free, haven't had a virus or trojan in years, I haven't used Norton in years, so maybe they have improved. There is also a Facebook virus going around that is being sent by people in your FB friends list, if you see a link for watching a video, don't click on it. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008 ... virus.html
Orwell this may surprise you, there are alot of aspies with dyslexia there is no need for spelling nazi's.



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07 Aug 2008, 3:10 pm

The same virus that is on twitter is on myspace youtube and Facebook also. Im going to update my anti-virus and firewall now.



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07 Aug 2008, 3:13 pm

Good idea, thanks for the news shugo.



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07 Aug 2008, 3:16 pm

spudnik wrote:
Orwell this may surprise you, there are alot of aspies with dyslexia there is no need for spelling nazi's.

I normally ignore such things, and only mentioned it because he made two separate posts to correct a spelling mistake.


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07 Aug 2008, 3:28 pm

On Windows I use the works - Java/Flash blockers for Firefox, anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-adware, and firewall.

Now I'm primarily using Ubuntu, where I'm more lax about it.


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