WarrensWorld Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 If you want to completely wipe your HD, use Dariks Boot and Nuke, also calleg DBAN. It will wipe everything off your drive. The US Department of Defense, use it to wipe their computers. Make sure you make a back-up of the files you want to save...... Once started DBAN wll erase everything and I do mean everything....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 That's right, the only way to totally destroy any traces of files, sites visited/material downloaded is to beat the HDD to pieces with a hammer then burn it! ....which, even then, isn't infallible. I've seen surprising numbers of intact files recovered from a fried hard disc by professional data recovery companies. Burning a disc will damage the platters inside that hold the data, but it's unlikely to completely destroy every byte on all of them, so it will still leave something in a recoverable state. In fact, the safest practical method is to employ a data recovery company to wipe the disc for you, although that carries an expense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Just bumping this up instead of starting a new thread Bought a new netbook for Uni a few weeks ago and still haven't got antivirus... Are people still using AVG and/or Avast? Might try AVG and see how it gets on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Hubby bought a new Samsung netbook a couple of weeks ago & is very impressed by the free AVG programme. Less impressed with the Norton that came with it & was the very devil himself to remove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Mine (Packard Bell) came with Norton too, pops up all the time telling me to buy it ... Uninstall Just downloading AVG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Used AVG free for years here, brothers job is computer forensics and he swears by it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Ditto (apart from the brother, obviously ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Used AVG free for years here, brothers job is computer forensics and he swears by it I use AVG on the advice of a friend who is in exactly the same job I also have K9 parental control for Rosie's profile. Lewis, I'd recommend that you also use Lavasoft's Adaware (also free) as it gets rid of all those keyloggers which can steal your passwords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickric Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Less impressed with the Norton that came with it & was the very devil himself to remove Norton is notoriously difficult to remove completely via the normal methods, it best to use there own removal tool here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Lewis, I'd recommend that you also use Lavasoft's Adaware (also free) as it gets rid of all those keyloggers which can steal your passwords. Uni have some thing on here 'cos if you use the same password as any of your Uni passwords for any other purpose, it'll lock you out of all Uni stuff and you need to go + see them to get it changed Will have a look though Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 It's worth having it on your lappy for when you are using it elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 We all use AVG here after a few run ins with Norton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 I use Avira, they are getting rid of their ad's by next month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janepie33 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 I have just downloaded a more up to date version of AVG and run a whole computer scan. It says that there are 6 infections that are too big to remove or quarantine. Help!! What do I do?? And does that explain why my debit card details keep getting hijacked (this last time someone in Chile was trying to spent £600 of mine!! ). Apparantly I have 6 Trojans. AND the latest AVG seems to have locked me out of the Omlet quiz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 SIX trojans!!! Were you not using any anti-virus before then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janepie33 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I THOUGHT I was!! It seems AVG wasn't working properly - I can't even uninstall it!! Have changed to Avast now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 You have to make sure that you run scans regularly, or schedule them to run and make sure that you configure it to update the program regularly too. I've never had problems with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Run a scan with avast NOW, hopefully it will kill the trojans, but if not, back up any vital files and format your computer and do a fresh install of your operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 My computer search for something brought in trojans last week and the antivirus picked it up but there were shortcuts already put on the desktop to porntube!! - my daughter was very quick thinking and removed me from the wireless connection and the internet very quickly and brought me in a spyware programme from a fellow computer buff to get rid of them - they took ages to get rid of but its fine now and all healed and sorted - nightmare at the time though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
