Windows Non-Defender

Article = none, personal experiance.

I had the most interesting experiance today involving windows defender.

It had automatically set itself to scan for viruses at two in the morning , but of course I don't let my computer run all night, I only run it when I'm there to watch it and make sure it's not doing anything weird (a primary security precaution no one should skip , by the way).

So it started running it's scan. Ok , it's a quick scan , and I am running xp , though I always use Firefox so I doubt it will find anything.

Yep. It found nothing. It even openned up a nice window to tell me it didn't find a thing.

Except that that window was , you guessed it , Internet Explorer , or as we techies and former techies like to call it , Internet Exploder.

Then I got that annoying box "take a tour of Internet Explorer 8" which I always close and it always opens again whenever I open it. But I hadn't asked to open it ? Then it popped up this big full screen ad saying an Online scan (what was something online doing scanning my computer without my permission ? ) had detected several million billion zillion viruses and trojens on my computer and I should really download this file right now this very instant DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED YES !!!! .

I said no.

Started up my online game.

10 minutes into the game , that annoying YOU HAVE TEN ZILLION VIRII ON YOUR COMPUTER DOWNLOAD THIS FILE RIGHT NOW !!!! came up again , and by the way got me killed in the game.

I was pissed.

Tried to update the virus definitions in windows defender. No go. Couldn't upgrade. Check fire wall, yes, windows defender is permitted to contact the internet ?

Went to Internet Exploder , disabled every single add on. Including two of them that mysteriously had no name ... considered the matter solved.


Didn't I read somewhere that after windows defender got tested and showed up to be the worst virus defender in the world microsoft stopped supporting it ? Yeah ... I couldn't find any updates for it because it was a dead scanner, no updates were anywhere to be had for it.

Uninstalled Windows Defender. It wouldn't be loading up that virus flea trap Internet Exploder on me anymore , if nothing else.


ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT EVERY DRIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER HAS ZILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF VIRII DOWNLOAD OUR SOFTWARE NOW DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED = YESSS !!!!!!


Now I was really pissed.


Tried to find an online scanner. Kept getting redirected to advertising sites. Well , advertising site, the same site over and over , no matter what I searched for. The virus had hijacked firefox on me.

Found AVG , using Opera , not firefox, and certainly not the Internet Exploder.

Downloaded it , installed it , started her scanning.

Still scanning. found 9 viruses and trojens so far. SHeur2.AGJK , FakeAlert.KJ, stuff like that. No I can't look it up ,that just redirects me to the same sales site that is obviously owned by the virus maker and would only make my problems worse.

*sigh* 30 min later. Oh yes, I pay for my online game with my credit card. I've typed it into this comptuer several times. Oh well...

Phone credit card company. Explain to them my computer is infected with a virus I no longer trust my credit card I think the program stole the information and is gonna go on a spending spree. They told me 7 days, new card, new number, it's in the mail.

Scan complete. 16 virus found. Rebooting.... I'll be back.

(edit ...I'm back)

OMG I AM SUCH A TECHIE GEEK !!!

LMFAO (means laughing my fat (ahem) off)

Firefox didn't work. Popped up an error about proxies refusing connection. But Opera did ! I used opera to hunt down a help file to find the proxie settings on Firefox , and fixed them , and now fire fox works !

Ha ha ... the virus don't know what it did , you know.

It thinks it was taking it's petty revenge by sabataging fire fox and preventing me from getting online when I removed it. But really , all it did was TEACH ME TO SABATAGE THE INTERNET EXPLODER and keep that virus claptrap off line permanently !

I'm gonna go sabatage the Exploder right this instant ! That thing is never EVER getting online again. I've been searching for a way to do that for ages. Thank you SHeur2.AGJK , I appreciate that.

Ha ha ... I love it when I get the last word in. ha ha ha.

(Edit ..again)

Since I so kindly openned the internet exploder , to sabatage it's proxy settings, it so kindly PROMPTLY REINFECTED MY COMPUTER AGAIN !!! . But thats ok. This time I sabataged the settings first , and waited a while. And got treated to the site of it openning a blank page automatically about 10 minutes later.

Scanning again. This time it's over. I hope. Since this virus doesn't seem to understand that such a thing as opera exists, I'm editing this post on Opera now. Remind me to pick up another browser, someing free , and highly obsure, not used by very many people, it just saved my behind.
and opera plays youtube.video's real nice too.

Didn't apple try and put out a browser recently "? Yeah ... Safari ..lets try safari. I never hear of it much , so thats gotta be pretty obscure.
(edit ..yet again)
Ugh ! Safari uses the default windows settings for proxies , the very same ones internet exploder uses, the ones I just finished sabataging to a fair thee well. UNINSTALL ! I'll keep looking ...