Virus Scare

[Skillz3905™]

i was pretty stressed today when i went to download winzip off limewire. i found a 16mb file the seemed to be the right size for winzip. so i downloaded it. and the file was called setup.exe, seemed promising. so i click to open it. my computer gave me one last warning to not open file due to not knowing the publisher, but none the less i took one last deep breathe and clicked "ALLOW" shortly after avg appears saying i have been infected by multiple viruses. 33 to be exact all trojan horse variations. AVG said it could force delete the viruses but could cause my computer to crash. I did it. Sure enough, it crashed... I restarted and quickly booted up avg and started a full scan. 1 hour later. it finished. and quickly flushed out my system 32 folder of all infections. and sat back in my chair relieved. Once again AVG hasn't failed me.

you'd be smart to click this- free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

[punk7890™]

Winzip off Limewire? There 2 problems with that, first Winzip is free and has an official site. Second, Limewire opens your computer up to the world basically. Not only that it really sucks. Utorrent would be better.

[Skillz3905™]

i went to the winzip site. it couldnt find the download link at the time i have it now. and limewire works for me sometimes. i got age of empires 3 off it. no viruses.

[snotskie]

yeh, i NEVER would use lime for .exe gets
strictly for muh .mp3's
everything else has too much potetial for spam/virus gets

if its a free .exe youre looking for, try filehippo.com
and if its a free (most of the time) web app, try go2web20.net