Hit by Virus
September 5, 2008 by Fadzuli
Ahhh my laptop was hit by a virus two days ago. Currently my laptop works very strangely especially when browsing the Internet.
This is because the virus affected certain files on my laptop and when the anti-virus detected it, I chose to delete it.
Yes this happens to me a lot of times before but the sad thing is that when I delete the files, the critical files were also deleted together as they were infected causing my Internet browsers to behave in very weird manners. Such as refreshing pages without even clicking the “REFRESH” button. Skipping pages and so on.
I have no idea yet on how to resolve this issue. I’m trying to reinstall the browsers again to see if that is the solution. Worst case scenario is to reinstall windows again. That one requires backing up all my data first and it can just eat up half a day of work.
Last Tuesday, my partner Luqman suggested me to install Linux - Ubuntu cos the Operating System will never get viruses because hackers don’t write virus programs for that. I’m considering it and I think I can do a dual boot system on that.
Currently writing this post using ScribeFire.
I am sorry to hear about your virus problem, Want a faster way to solve this problem,,,, Swith to a Mac. Been on these platform for years and not once I got virus problem..inshaAllah. But what I heard on the ground is that, since the popularitty of the iPhone, those guys are now targeting the Mac operating system. Dont know if it true so I just need to wait and see…
Mac Evangelist reply on September 11th, 2008:
That’s not entirely true. Even if blackhats are targetting Macs, OS X is still extremely secure from the core. Linux and OS X both have a fundamental similarity. They’re both Unix core. OS X uses a FreeBSD unix. And it is more secure than FreeBSD itself.
There are no viruses on the Mac ever since OS X was released 8 years ago. 8 years and counting.
Linux on the other hand has 14 known viruses, all easily patched.
In Unix, the OS is modular and if any vulnerability affects the system, only that module will be affected.
Windows does not have this separation of concerns, and while they tried to apply this modular concept in Vista, MS applied hooks back into the XP systems to provide backwards compatibility. So what viruses that affect XP, will affect Vista, even if Vista is inherently more secure with its more stringent role based system.
Mac OS 9 had as much viruses as Windows then, but after Apple moved away from the old way of doing things, and adopted FreeBSD Unix as the core, and combined it with the Mach Kernel in older Macs, it evolved into the only OS that has yet to be affected by a virus.
Fadzuli reply on September 11th, 2008:
Personally this is what I think..haha..Virus are man made eventually. If that hacker has the intention of getting it done either for monetary gains or just for fun, they be able to write that one virus someday…Till then…
Wah that’s bad news for Mac Users..Ini macam people will start to use LINUX.