Fix The Damn Client!

the client keeps f'ing crashing on me!

now its locking me out

i think i have a virus, avg won't update, it takes 3 1/2 days to f'ing scan.

Which has nothing to do with SL, but would explain why SL is crashing.

Good luck getting that cleaned up!

Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Word of Advice:

Literally unplug your internet connection when scanning for a virus!!

The lil' suckers can re-download themselves elsewhere when they detect you trying to delete them. Same goes for Spyware, etc.

hey thats interesting

Thanks Tod.

A few more words of advice:

If you think you have a virus, you're better off formatting and reinstalling Windows. Seriously. Some virii these days are just too damned hard to get rid of, and none of the antivirus programs can really do a damned thing about it. Besides, it's just a useful thing to do with Windows every year or so. Damnit.

If you have real-time scanning enabled, make sure to exclude your SL cache folder - if you don't, rezzing takes forever.

More words of advice:

Stay away from porn sites and the related downloads.

Stay away from all the peer-2-peer file sharing programs.

Make sure your computer is up to par before you blame the client.

Reformatting the hd doesn't work with all of them. A lot of the viruses are writing themselves into the boot sector of your harddrive nowadays, so they get themselves running in memory even before the OS is active...

Alternatively just protect yourself properly against viruses rather than taking all the fun out of the net.

you call trying to run SL on a 386SX *fun*?!?

1gb of ram

256mb PCI card

built before 2003

so maybe by pc is old

it only happend when my freinds large 2 story aircraft uin sl rezzes

If your computer is that old, I'm surprised you can get on SL at all!

Time to upgrade

Don't most BIOSes scan for boot sector viruses? If a HD wipe and reformat can't fix it, what will???

Also, on reinstalling Windows: I have a LOT of applications. Every time I've done a clean install, I've had to not only reinstall the OS, but all the apps, too. AND their updates. It's darn near a two day process. Is there an easier way?

PowerQuest DriveImage or Norton Ghost will take an image of a virgin installation of OS and applications and subsequent periodical backups which would include the updated drivers, apps, etc. I had to go to a 4 month old image once only losing my emails in the interim. Things like Organiser or Money files can be saved in multiple copies for even more frequent backups.

Great advice for... about 4 years ago. The threat has moved far far away from porn sites these days - they just don't give a good rate of return for the guys trying to infect you, and the people making an honest buck out of naked pictures have no need of the bad rep that the infectors leave them with.

(in fact, it's all upsaide down: the basic purpose of most viruses is identity theft, so that the perps can use your credit card to download... porn)

The most risky sites now are smaller businesses with mom-n-pop web hosting who can't participate in the giant arms race, and - bizarrely enough - fake computer security package downloads!

But the thing about P2P programs is spot on. It's a howling desert these days, populated with gibbering idiots.

Kiboe, as other have mentioned deal with the virus first before you go blaming the client.

And as a professional tech, I agree that backing up your critical data, formating and deleting your partition and reinstalling is surest bet to get rid of the virus. Make sure you have AVG (Through I HIGHLY recoment Avast 4 Home for home users), Adaware, and Spybot Search and Destroy downloaded on a disk as well as any drivers you may need.

If formating is not an option, then I second TrendMicro Housecall online scanner as well, it may well be that you antivirus has be crippled by the virus. Housecall may be able to get that much out and then you can disconect from the internet and retry AVG.

My laptop: 512 MB RAM, 64MB ATI card. It even runs Windlight, with around 6FPS.

yea, i am lucky if i can even handle a greifer particle attack

well, despete whan many think, particles are just sprites, they don't realy affest fps as they are nto objects, just floating targa textures, sometimes obsecne images from the grifers

that, and i did an AVG scan last night, found seven trojan horses

7

trojan

horses, yea, and it was in the sl cache folder, i am wondering if viruses can be embeded in sl.

Highly unlikely.

Them being in the SL cache folder, do you visit websites that objects or profiles list/send you to?


Edit: I missed the AVG part. That 'anti-' program loves to list many things as trojans when they're not.

i was some image from soem website that i downloaded to the cache folder by accident, anyway, its gone now

Viruses can be hidden in .jpg files.

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-061310-4234-99

1 2 are correct. But 3 well No your not correct. Alot of problems are occuring with this CLIENT and he might be right about it.

Well, it's taking *days* to run a virus scan. This is not normal.

Don't you have a blog to go clutter with comments?