fett on 28/7/2009 at 21:20
I've been using AVG for two days now and if I see one more attempt to force a Yahoo search bar on me, it's history. :mad:
bikerdude on 28/7/2009 at 23:47
Quote Posted by fett
if I see one more attempt to force a Yahoo search bar on me, it's history. :mad:
LOL... thats another growing feature of freeware these days..:nono:
Bjossi on 29/7/2009 at 03:11
Quote Posted by RocketMan
True but there is a registry key that viruses can infect/change. I don't remember the key exactly but it's something like WindowsFirewallOff or something and it takes a boolean 0 or 1. The virus can change this and boom...no more firewall. Happened to me when I got w32.virut.cf I find it amusing that there's a big happy OFF button for something like windows firewall that a virus can easily get access to. Maybe I'm over simplifying it though.
The registry is a file system in itself (at least the concept is the same as a regular file system; you could look at a registry hive as a storage medium and the keys and values as folders and files...) and is interacted with through a special API. I would be very surprised if Microsoft didn't include some form of anti-malware coding in there, as you said that off switch would be one massive security hole otherwise.
nickie on 29/7/2009 at 06:10
Quote Posted by fett
I've been using AVG for two days now and if I see one more attempt to force a Yahoo search bar on me, it's history. :mad:
:D Yes, more than a little irritating - the last time I downloaded something that wanted me to have it I just accepted it and removed it afterwards.
