viruses invaded my PC!

the viruses came from my pendrive! and how did the viruses get into my pendrive? i suspect from the church computer on good friday.

all along i had been using my pendrive everyday in my office and at home – nothing happened. then on good friday i used it on the church’s computer for the ‘stations of the cross’ projection on LCD. when i went back home, i used the pendrive as usual, suddenly 3 viruses were detected and ‘healed’. so i thought that was that. that was on friday night.

saturday as i was at easter vigil and returned late, didn’t use the PC much. but on sunday i started using it. then it dawned on me that my AVG anti virus was not updated so i updated it and scanned my pendrive again and this time, it gave me a great shock!! more than 300 viruses were detected!! all in the word documents!!  anyway AVG ‘healed’ the viruse but then i was surprised to see suddenly all my word document with .doc extension turned into a .exe extension making it application format. i didn’t know what happened but i try opening the document.. and it open as usual under word. so suspecting nothing, i keep opening a few documents to edit and type.

then slowly it suddenly dawned on me that the PC is not working right/properly. like when i try to post to my blog, i can’t attach the image. then several of my posts disappeared after i deleted only 1 draft post. then some dialogue box popped up saying something about what message can’t be read or open. i try to close that box but it just won’t close at all!  then at one stage i notice suddenly AVG detect a virus in the c drive of the hard disk. ah. suddenly it dawned on me, my PC must be infected with the virus from my pendrive. aiya! why i so stupid one. should have realised it earlier and try scanning the whole PC.

anyway on the next day (monday) i try to use AVG to scan my PC but AVG won’t work! so i try to download other anti-virus software. all 3 that i downloaded just won’t run at all! must be the virus disturbing it. i have no other choice but to run to my brother for help. i hope today he will come and checked for me. if not, it’ll be another day again i can’t use my house PC. (now i’m using office PC. staying late).

i notice that the viruses detected on my pendrive are called ‘generic 12.BAYC’. found out that it is a trojan horse worm. very difficult to remove them.  hope after removing, it won’t affect data on my PC. well the date on my pendrive were affected! still can access them but through a round-about way.

as this weekend the PC fair is on, think i’ll purchase a genuine anti-virus software like bitfender, which i understand is less than RM50.  better be safe than sorry. problem is my own fault… forgot to update the anti-virus software lah. next time must discipline myself to update it.

well if tonight my PC is not back to normal, i won’t be able to made any posts. i hope i can get connected to the internet with my notebook then. can use my notebook to surf and post. yesterday i try to connect my notebook but i don’t know what happened – the internet connection on my notebook was not working. hopefully it will work tonight.