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Old Jan 26, 2006, 04:13 AM // 04:13   #1
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i was just surfing the guild wars forum and out of no where, a backdoor trojan got into my computer. it was at the forum team arena when it happened. WTF>???!?!!>!!>!>
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Old Jan 26, 2006, 01:08 PM // 13:08   #2
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Do you have a firewall installed?

You don't really need to even go to a website to get viruses and stuff if you don't have properly working firewall.

A fresh install of windows, for example, won't stay longer than minute or two without getting a virus infection without firewall, usually done my reinstalls without network plugged in at all until firewall is up
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Old Jan 26, 2006, 01:11 PM // 13:11   #3
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We dont have any viruses nor stuff like that, our banners are just images and some javascript, paste an image or text from what your virus scanner saysa
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Old Jan 26, 2006, 11:13 PM // 23:13   #4
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Ya my firewall gets about a hundred hits a day. I dunno if all of those are viruses but its good to have. Sometimes your router comes equiped with one too.
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Old Jan 26, 2006, 11:37 PM // 23:37   #5
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dayum that's messed.. I feel you though- I have a friend who literally trashed his computer because he was always getting trojaned and adware lol the internet is a sad sad place for new users.. best bet is to play around on your lan- get windows firewall working right.. delete internet explorer and install firefox.. update all the criticals for xp and you should be aight.. rest is just watching what you download and run- that'll come with some experience

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