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Baz94
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About a fortnight ago, a mate of mine had to completely wipe his HD and re do everything because of a load of nasty viruses of which apparently came via the microsoft windows update.
When he told me, I disabled the automatic updatees but from that moment on, I too had aggro including countless trojans and so on.
In the end, my pc was completely messed up and I had to wipe everything at the cost of £58 through DELL.
Aparently this may have been caused via the windows update as it was said hackers got into the MS site and put these files on there to make the viruses.
Is the Windows update safe? Does it have a problem with infecting with viruses or can I update things from there now?
Thanks
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greysts
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Let's think about this logically. Did you hear anything on the news about the Microsoft site being hacked? If it happened it would be the number one news story around the world for weeks. Of course it's not been compromised. Microsoft spend millions of dollars to protect their own servers and if there had been any problems you would surely know about it on every news bulletin you see, hear or read.
Your mate certainly didn't get his PC infected from Microsoft. More likely he uses it on file sharing sites which is where the majority of infections can be found.
Disabling automatic updates is the ideal way to open your PC to infection from the latest viruses. Microsoft create Critical Updates via the automated process because that's what they are - Critical.
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Baz94
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Cheers For that.
Ill get on there and update then.
I agree about the file sharing thing. It does cause some nastiness to PC's. I am too wary of this and will never file share, it really aint worth the aggro.
Thanks again!
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