My First Infection of 2009

Although I wouldn’t consider myself a complete geek, I do know a thing or two when it comes to preventing a virus or a spyware  from overtaking the computer. I haven’t had an infection for as long as I can remember. However, when I got up this morning to watch a football match online, I guess I stumbled into a wrong site with my recently bought Samsung NC10, which was somewhat unprotected.

The game was supposed to start at 8am, so I got up accordingly, brought my netbook to my bed, and logged on to the school campus’s wireless connection to watch the game on my bed. While doing a few searches here and there for the game, all of a sudden, I saw that “svchost.exe” was trying to gain access online. Of course, at first, I was a bit skeptical, but something went across my mind and after  a few alerts (this was non-activated McAfee preinstalled on my computer alerting me), I allowed it.

Immediately, the computer wanted to restart and I knew that I had made a mistake. Well, considering that the atch today was a big one (Man Utd. vs. Chelsea), I was pretty mad. As both were important, I got on my other laptop and started to work on the NC10.

To cut the long story short, I had to activate McAfee (which I wasn’t so happy doing as I was waiting for my Kaspersky to arrive. Ironically though, McAfee partially got rid of this trojan and gave me enough time to install Ad-Aware 2008. Ran a test with Ad-Aware 2008, deleted TWO suspicious files and am now running McAfee SecurityCenter. It seems like it has noticed two additional suspicious files.

What a great way to start a Sunday.