1567 Viruses

If your computer has 1567 viruses, it is either:

a. You do not take care of your computer,
b. You surf the internet without a firewall,
c. You are not yet on Windows XP Service Pack 2, or
d. All of the f***ing above!!!

In my case - I mean the case of our computer at home, the answer is the letter 'D'. Congratulations to my family for breaking the old record of, say, less than 20 viruses.

Actually, we have Norton Antivirus 2002 - yes, an original copy of it. We even had it registered over the internet. We could even get live updates... that is, until 2004. It is when the live update licensing had expired. It's like Norton telling us, "Want to keep protected? Buy the new one."

Thank God I was able to connect the laptop to our home computer. After a few adjustments, I was able to sweep our home computer with F-Secure Anti-Virus.

After scanning drive C, the Anti-Virus reported that there were 4 viruses. Okay... not bad... for a drive partitioned for 300 MB.

Drive D was insane, especially when we got to the Windows directory. I was performing the virus scan on a command prompt window (like DOS). When the scanning reached System32, the viruses came out like machinegun fire! It was an assortment of all kinds of worms, trojans, and spyware! I laughed hysterically when I saw this. Pretty amusing.

After the scan on our computer, I decided to scan my laptop as well (for safety reasons - I don't know how tricky the viruses are in our home PC). Zero.

Maybe it's time to scan your computer as well. What do you think?