Alert! Computer Crash!

[ologan]

Last night I was watching the game on the "P2P4U" site mentioned here. I didn't get to watch the first half,and picked it up midway thru the third period. It was spotty at best,but the worst part came when I lost EVERYTHING!!! Then a "rogue" malware site took over and effectively shut down access to everything on my computer. They started scanning everything and came up with site after site I hadn't even thought of being on at anytime. I couldn't even turn the computer speaker down. I was able to start a complete McAfee scan,but it went on till 10:00 am this morning,still scanning. I finally had my wife google it on her laptop and came up with a uninstall guide for malware removal instructions from some other company that had a "trial basis" program (I wonder if they're all connected in some way?). That did the trick,but now it interferes with the malware program from McAfee,whay little good it did me to begin with!
My reason for putting this in this forum is that it happened during the use of this game watching program. I'm not saying it was the "P2P4U" program that was infected,but just be careful. I'm in the process of copying all my files to a flash,now that I have my computer back,for how long I don't know.

 

[sureletsrace]

Last night I was watching the game on the "P2P4U" site mentioned here. I didn't get to watch the first half,and picked it up midway thru the third period. It was spotty at best,but the worst part came when I lost EVERYTHING!!! Then a "rogue" malware site took over and effectively shut down access to everything on my computer. They started scanning everything and came up with site after site I hadn't even thought of being on at anytime. I couldn't even turn the computer speaker down. I was able to start a complete McAfee scan,but it went on till 10:00 am this morning,still scanning. I finally had my wife google it on her laptop and came up with a uninstall guide for malware removal instructions from some other company that had a "trial basis" program (I wonder if they're all connected in some way?). That did the trick,but now it interferes with the malware program from McAfee,whay little good it did me to begin with!
My reason for putting this in this forum is that it happened during the use of this game watching program. I'm not saying it was the "P2P4U" program that was infected,but just be careful. I'm in the process of copying all my files to a flash,now that I have my computer back,for how long I don't know.

Sounds like you're trying to cover something up with wifey. :laugh2:

J/K, sorry about your bad luck. McAfee sucks btw. You should use AVG or avast! Antivirus.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Thanks for the warning, ologan. And I hope you recover and save everything.

 

[Ren]

I use sites like that all the time in preseason the few times something has come up over the years Norton has blocked it, seriously McAfee is kinda crap

 

[burmafrd]

Webroot does well for me

 

[VietCowboy]

yeah

I've got malwarebytes for live protection, and norton (free from comcast) for scheduled scanning.

 

[DIAF]

OP, that was seriously not very smart of you. Anytime you use sites like that..streaming, video sites, or *ahem*....adult sites, you should ALWAYS do a quick google of the site and see if there's any info about them out there to see if they are ridden with malware. Many of them are. Also, if any of these sites pop up with a dialogue box asking you to install something OR just to click "ok" to continue, DO NOT CLICK OK. Immediately ctrl-alt-del, go to task manager, and kill the browser's exe.

 

[67CowboysFan]

Last night I was watching the game on the "P2P4U" site mentioned here. I didn't get to watch the first half,and picked it up midway thru the third period. It was spotty at best,but the worst part came when I lost EVERYTHING!!! Then a "rogue" malware site took over and effectively shut down access to everything on my computer. They started scanning everything and came up with site after site I hadn't even thought of being on at anytime. I couldn't even turn the computer speaker down. I was able to start a complete McAfee scan,but it went on till 10:00 am this morning,still scanning. I finally had my wife google it on her laptop and came up with a uninstall guide for malware removal instructions from some other company that had a "trial basis" program (I wonder if they're all connected in some way?). That did the trick,but now it interferes with the malware program from McAfee,whay little good it did me to begin with!
My reason for putting this in this forum is that it happened during the use of this game watching program. I'm not saying it was the "P2P4U" program that was infected,but just be careful. I'm in the process of copying all my files to a flash,now that I have my computer back,for how long I don't know.

Did you install anything from that site to view the stream? I noticed one of the streams said you had to. I watched the first stream available (which sucked) and haven't had any problems with a virus.

 

[ologan]

OP, that was seriously not very smart of you. Anytime you use sites like that..streaming, video sites, or *ahem*....adult sites, you should ALWAYS do a quick google of the site and see if there's any info about them out there to see if they are ridden with malware. Many of them are. Also, if any of these sites pop up with a dialogue box asking you to install something OR just to click "ok" to continue, DO NOT CLICK OK. Immediately ctrl-alt-del, go to task manager, and kill the browser's exe.

Well,Duuhhhh! Didn't have a problem the last few games. I thought McAfee was supposed to stop that crap. I'll go to someone else from now on.

 

[DIAF]

Well,Duuhhhh! Didn't have a problem the last few games. I thought McAfee was supposed to stop that crap. I'll go to someone else from now on.

Never rely solely on an AV or Malware program. Defensive behaviors are far more important, I think.