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a wierd Anti-virus problem

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ok my Anti-virus program just desided to disable itself with out any real warning (everything else works fine but the virus database won't turn on).
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Lord Revan wrote:ok my Anti-virus program just desided to disable itself with out any real warning (everything else works fine but the virus database won't turn on).
i expect it needs updating.
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Zac Naloen wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:ok my Anti-virus program just desided to disable itself with out any real warning (everything else works fine but the virus database won't turn on).
i expect it needs updating.
impossible (I can't update it until the database is initialized, and that's exactly what it won't do)
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Which program are you using?

I'm not quite sure, but I think there are viruses and worms out there that can disable some AV software when they infect a machine, and something like this is what I'd expect them to do.

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Is it fsecure?

My mom and dads fsecure crapped out today and I do not know why.
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Faram wrote:Is it fsecure?

My mom and dads fsecure crapped out today and I do not know why.
They've had some problems with the updates lately. Last week the network in my school got totally fucked because F-Secure had some problem with the way the updated evrsion interacted with the server, especially logins.

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Um, guys, not to sound paranoid, but you might want to take a look at this.

http://www.lurhq.com/blackworm.html
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yeah it's F-secure Internet Security 2005 OEM 5.10
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First thing you want to do is read any FAQs, news and known issue articles on the F-Secure site and proceed from there. I've never uysed that particular AV software, so I can't help you any further.

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this just keeps on getting weirder, now the problem is gone with no trace of why it happend in first place.
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