[SSJKarma]

LEDMONKEY: yes, coding in HEXADECIMAL is very possible, tho its a very very very unlikely used technique ! it is more used for hacking already made programs more then creating those programs !

VIPER: AIM, MSN and basically all programs that are PEER TO PEER like that are very different then those WEB SITES... web sites requires you to accept any files, but ya gotta admit it... if in AIM ya clicked the LINK that brought you to the site itself, then ya clearly accepted what was about to come at you, so in a case i was still right !

in any cases about programs like MSN or AIM, they are on SERVERS all around the the place, if one is infected, it takes on the network and travels by it !

gotta test that at home if ya want to know this... place two computers, doing a network, share both computer to have full access to each other, infect one and see that the second computer gets infected at almost the same time !

so like i said, the best thing to do against any kind of viruses, is to not accept anything that you don't know about !

if its a friend and he infected ya, then sorry about it, he got infected or he voluntarily infected you, its either one or the other, nothing else !

RYU'SREVENGE: i would check it out entirely and wouldn't save any EXECUTABLES, they are the one who gets infected ! in any cases yousbnhould look for the name of the trojan, and look for a CLEANER for it over the net. i passed so much time in the channel #AID on IRC that i know that the worst common problem people have is trojan viruses...

basically, your anti-virus software detects it, gives you the complete name for it, then go onto the net and find yourself a CLEANER for that type of trojan, it will clean it for you !

as the reason as to why it is un deinfectable, is because the whole program is the virus, only way around is to kill it !

the CLEANER should get rid of it in an instant. then you won't have to restore anything !

be on the look out for some other things...
the file you usually get has maybe too extensions, winbdows, may it be 98SE and less, will only see the last one. so it can be a trap unless you make your windows change config and show you all extension.

also, they can usually change the name of the program, thus changing his extension, but as soon as you try to run the program, even if it starts with the wrong thing, it will infect you !
also the size usually happen to be different. as in, how can a simple text file be over the meg limit ? this is impossible unless it is a book of more then 300 pages !

so again, ya gotta look for the files you receive and whihc files you execute. tell yourself that no files auto-execute itself ! ya always gotta give it the start, and then it will auto-execute itself at each start of your computer !



Edited By SSJKarma on Jan. 24 2004 at 02:26