Why did Microsoft send me a computer virus?

[Nathan]

I'm going to have to go with love. They did it out of love bro.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I rarely turn my computer off, so last night when I did, I let it do those stupid update things I don't give a damn about. Now I get a stupid virus popup every couple hours that says "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting". Yeah, and my computer just froze up two minutes ago... it's never done that before.

Can I sue Microsoft? Why does my computer ask me to do updates all the time, and then the one time I actually let it do it's thing, it infects me with a freakin' virus?

I hate computers. Yeah, let's put the entire world online when every company and it's mother is fighting over proprietary crap. There's gotta be someone I can sue or drop-kick or something...

Microsoft, as massive as their OS installation base is, has long become an easy target for viruses. That's fucked up though. I for one am happy with computers now being that mine is finally up and running with a new cpu, heatsink and cooling fan. Eventually I'll upgrade from scratch but in this day and age being without a computer completely like I have been the past two + weeks is a royal pain. My PS3 browser held me over for the internet but I'm relieved to finally be using the fully functional Firefox once again. Not to mention a keyboard/mouse combo.

Perhaps these will help-

http://www.crime-research.org/news/10.04.2005/1125/
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

You could also try doing a system restore to a date before you did the update.
Use the hard drive reformat /OS reinstallation options as a last resort.

 

[jack sparrow]

Yep.

Tried a program/hack to change the registry number, but it didn't work.

See refer to post #17.

 

[puddlemonkey]

FireFox

 

[samoth]

See refer to post #17.

Can I borrow $2,000?

 

[samoth]

Microsoft, as massive as their OS installation base is, has long become an easy target for viruses. That's fucked up though. I for one am happy with computers now being that mine is finally up and running with a new cpu, heatsink and cooling fan. Eventually I'll upgrade from scratch but in this day and age being without a computer completely like I have been the past two + weeks is a royal pain. My PS3 browser held me over for the internet but I'm relieved to finally be using the fully functional Firefox once again. Not to mention a keyboard/mouse combo.

Perhaps these will help-

http://www.crime-research.org/news/10.04.2005/1125/
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

You could also try doing a system restore to a date before you did the update.
Use the hard drive reformat /OS reinstallation options as a last resort.

It's not an email scam... it's "technically" not a virus. It's from Microsoft themselves.

 

[jack sparrow]

Can I borrow $2,000?

If the green dots and crowns were real, I'd buy you ten of them bor.

 

[samoth]

If the green dots and crowns were real, I'd buy you ten of them bor.

I know

But I seem to recall reading about some way to circumvent this MS virus thingy, so I thought I'd bump this.

 

[jack sparrow]

See refer to post #17.

I hate when I'm on the phone and posting...I always fuck up my sentences.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

It's not an email scam... it's "technically" not a virus. It's from Microsoft themselves.

What 3rd party anti-virus software are you using, and is it updated?
If your pc never froze up before doing the MS updates I'd call or email them and get them to fix it.
...Unless you were still using XP service pack 1 when you tried doing the update...you need service pack 2 for them to work.