PSA - remember to virus check!

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by Mujokan

I "rooted" my Nook Simple Touch recently, and found it all pretty interesting, and started playing round with various utilities and what-not found via Google search. At some point I managed to get a rootkit malware infection on my Windows laptop! I think the second time in my life I got some kind of virus, the first being in the nineties some time.

Luckily AVG picked up the infection on doing a full scan. AVG could not delete it, it would just reappear with a different name. I downloaded a Kapersky utility which removed it, but there was still something screwy with the OS, so I ended up just wiping the drive and installing Ubuntu. Which is great BTW.

I figured I was too smart to virus scan and only noticed the infection coincidentally. So watch out if you've been installing little utilities to do e-book related tasks like metadata editing or whatever. (I am not sure of the exact vector in my case)

Originally Posted by kennyc

I somehow got a nasty rootkit trojan (Zeroaccess) on my main (this one) computer last week. Nothing worked to remove it. I spent several hours trying to fix it with Kapersky tools, Norton tools and instructions, etc. Oh and I do have and keep my virus protection (Norton) up to date. It was alerting me on this one every 5 mins as the trojan attempted to do something. It just wouldn't remove kill it/remove it.

What ended up working was rolling my entire system back to the previous week.

A while back my son in law got a nasty malware on his computer. Had a hard time getting rid of it. It wouldn't let any of the scanners uninstall it. Finally had to start his computer in Safe Mode. Then ran Malwarebytes. That got rid of it.

Carol

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I love the smell of a fresh OS install in the morning.

Spoiler:

Or should I say after a root-kit discovery.

I want to install Win 7 on my Vista machine. I dread the thought of re-installing everything.

Carol

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by Apache

It did mine. I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in January of this year. I elected to forgo the surgery my Urologist wanted to do. Instead I went with Proton Therapy. This is a short ranged radiation treatment. The benefit over regular Photon Radiation is the healthy tissue behind the tumor is not damaged since the radiation stops at the tumor. For example Proton Therapy, for treatment of cancer in the left breast, does not harm the patients heart. And the results of treatment of brain tumors, in children, is phenomenal.
The side effects for Proton Therapy are minor compared to surgery too.
Apache

Saved my husband's life too. He was diagnosed in 2008. He opted for the surgery. When they biopsied it they found more tumors than they originally thought. He is doing fine. Early detection is important.

Carol

[RDaneel54]

Originally Posted by kennyc

There are other opinions as well. It's quite controversial. The main thing is to get and evaluate ALL information, not to slavishly follow "standard procedure."

I'd rather be checked out and not need it than vice versa.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by RDaneel54

I'd rather be checked out and not need it than vice versa.

Absolutely. It's just a simple blood test. What you decide to do if elevated is between the men and their doctors.

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by Apache

It did mine. I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in January of this year. I elected to forgo the surgery my Urologist wanted to do. Instead I went with Proton Therapy. This is a short ranged radiation treatment. The benefit over regular Photon Radiation is the healthy tissue behind the tumor is not damaged since the radiation stops at the tumor. For example Proton Therapy, for treatment of cancer in the left breast, does not harm the patients heart. And the results of treatment of brain tumors, in children, is phenomenal.
The side effects for Proton Therapy are minor compared to surgery too.
Apache

I've heard good things about Proton Therapy.

Carol

[Apache]

I will be 56 in a week and a half. The Biopsy found one sample positive out of twelve. The only reason they found it as early as they did was a kidney stone. They did a PSA test while I was being treated for a 21 X 8 mm kidney stone. And you do not have to be old to have prostate cancer. There were men being treated as young as 42 while I was in treatment. A simple quick blood test is worth it especially if they catch it early.
Apache
Apache

[Apache]

Originally Posted by sadievan

I've heard good things about Proton Therapy.

Carol

I can not say enough good things about it. Even the atmosphere is incredible and upbeat. Proton Therapy is the only treatment with it's own fan club. I am serious here.
I own my own business and could not afford to take two months off for treatment. I drove two hours, one way, five days a week for two months. My only side affects was an difficulty and an urgency to urinate and that did not start until the second month. Also, the long term results are as good or better than the other options. there are now 10 centers around the US and they are building a lot more. Considering that start up costs are 100 to 200 million dollars this says a lot about the results.
Apache

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by Apache

I can not say enough good things about it. Even the atmosphere is incredible and upbeat. Proton Therapy is the only treatment with it's own fan club. I am serious here.
I own my own business and could not afford to take two months off for treatment. I drove two hours, one way, five days a week for two months. My only side affects was an difficulty and an urgency to urinate and that did not start until the second month. Also, the long term results are as good or better than the other options. there are now 10 centers around the US and they are building a lot more. Considering that start up costs are 100 to 200 million dollars this says a lot about the results.
Apache

I think there weren't any around us at the time my husband was diagnosed.

Glad it worked out good for you. Good luck to you.

Carol

[Apache]

Until recently most people didn't know about it. And most Urologist still do not recommend it because they are surgeons first.
The actual theory was suggested in 1946. The first use was in 1954 at the Berkley Radiation Laboratory. In 1961 The Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital started collaborated to use Proton Therapy. For a long time there were only two in the US. Loma Linda California and Boston Massachusetts. Now there are 10 in the US and they are building quite a few more.
Apache

[cromag]

My computer got nailed with a bad virus in 2008. It took a couple months to get rid of it completely, with (free) help from the folks at Bleeping Computer (there are other tech sites that will help, too). Since then I changed my antivirus from a well-known brand (that costs $s -- and didn't work) to Avast, installed Malwarebytes (I opted to pay for Premium), installed ZoneAlarm firewall, added NoScript and Cookie Whitelist to Firefox, and installed Secunia (to check for outdated/vulnerable software).

There are 2 programs I use that have no Linux equivalents. Otherwise, I'd be running Ubuntu on my desktop like I do on my netbook. It's not just safer -- it makes more sense, for me, anyway.