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Where do I download viruses to infect my PC?

Bobdude161

Bobdude161

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Mar 12, 2006
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No joke. I want to infect my own PC with some viruses so I can then try to remove them. If there's not a place to specifically download them, then what websites would you suggest that offer such services? :D Thank you.
 
Well that means you are looking for trogans. My advice if you are stupid enough to get them. Go look for porn and install the software they need you to install to "see the video"
 
Just turn off your firewall and virus protection, leave it connected to the internet, and wait.

No joke. My netbook got infected a few weeks after I bought it. I had turned off virus scanning, thinking "pshaw, I don't surf dubious sites, I'll be fine". Apparently not.
 
install a program like morpheus and all the addons with it. that's always a good start. then click on ads involving punching animals.
 
notjustjay said:
Just turn off your firewall and virus protection, leave it connected to the internet, and wait.

No joke. My netbook got infected a few weeks after I bought it. I had turned off virus scanning, thinking "pshaw, I don't surf dubious sites, I'll be fine". Apparently not.
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Sticking behind NAT should take care of most internet background radiation.
 
also use ie so when u surf the questionable sites they'll ask u to install activex components. please do
 
notjustjay said:
Just turn off your firewall and virus protection, leave it connected to the internet, and wait.

No joke. My netbook got infected a few weeks after I bought it. I had turned off virus scanning, thinking "pshaw, I don't surf dubious sites, I'll be fine". Apparently not.
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I never used an antivirus on my old dell. Never got a single virus, despite using torrents, P2P, and other questionable online activities. You have to be smart about what you click.
 
STSNorthstar said:
I never used an antivirus on my old dell. Never got a single virus, despite using torrents, P2P, and other questionable online activities. You have to be smart about what you click.
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if you never used antivirus software how do you know you never got one?
 
haha, very cool. Thank you for the suggestions. i'll refrain from the porn sites :p, but installing activeX without restraint is a good idea, and I like the idea of DLing from torrents and Morpheus, I'll go one step further, Limewire and bearshare and clicking on all the phony downloads. Also DLing every possible toolbar for IE would help too, no? Keep bringing them in! I want to demolish this thing in hopes of restoring it (which i doubt will happen).
 
BANNER ADS!

click every single banner ad you see

and purposely type URLs wrong so it redirects you to those annoying fakesearchengieneinstalspywareonmachine sites.

I have always wanted to demolish a PC but why do you want to?
 
notjustjay said:
Just turn off your firewall and virus protection, leave it connected to the internet, and wait.

No joke. My netbook got infected a few weeks after I bought it. I had turned off virus scanning, thinking "pshaw, I don't surf dubious sites, I'll be fine". Apparently not.
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i think hes trying to download them so he can monitor where exactly they are
 
Well a couple hours later and I have killed it. Went out with several memory exceptions. No boot sounds, no video, no HD movement, just the fans blowing and CD-drive whirring. Now I will attempt to fix it! Thank you all for your help! ;)
 
Last time I had to fix a friends PC from virus problems I had to rebuild their entire Hard Drive from scratch. The drive became so fragmented that there was no space to do anything and all I could do is erase the whole kit-n-kaboodle. The machine was 5 years old, a HP with only 40GB HD. All she did was email on AOL but god knows what was on her attachments from friends.
 
Malfoy said:
if you never used antivirus software how do you know you never got one?
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You can tell by monitoring the machine. Watch for extra network activity, memory usage, HDs constantly spinning, etc. And of course, the obvious homepage hijacks, popup ads, and the like. Of course, that was way back in the old days. With modern malware, it is a bit more difficult, since many of them just stay stealthed and don't do anything until called up by the botnet owner.

I agree with STS, though. I have never gotten an infection on any machine I use on a regular basis. Like the OP, however, I have actually infected a machine on purpose. It was amusing.
 
Out of curiosity why are you infecting your computer with viruses?

It is your computer?
 
Eidorian said:
Virtual machines only make this more fun.
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Oh yeah, I love virtual machines. You can try anything you want, and it doesn't matter. Blue screen it? Reload! Crash and burn? Reload it!

The machine I infected on purpose happened when I worked for a computer consulting/repair shop. We had a few old test PCs lying around to try different stuff. One of our guys loved to brag how he could clean up any malware infection, and have the machine back to normal with no trace of the bad stuff. I always argued that it was best to just back up data and reload the machine, since you can never be 100% sure you got everything. This was especially important if you are charging customers by the hour.

Anyway, I hooked up one of our test machines, and went to work on it. I then handed it over to my co-worker and challenged him to clean the machine up completely. He took it home and worked on it over a weekend, and he brought it in and pronounced it clean. I plugged it up to the internet, and within a couple of minutes, it was crawling, and laden with popups. It turned out he had missed a few things. (This machine was fully patched and had AV running, btw)
 
Bobdude161 said:
No joke. I want to infect my own PC with some viruses so I can then try to remove them. If there's not a place to specifically download them, then what websites would you suggest that offer such services? :D Thank you.
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Search "porn" in internet explorer and just "click around" you'll find something. ;)
 
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