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    Caught a virus from someone here

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by scorpionfalcon, Dec 25, 2010.

  1. scorpionfalcon

    scorpionfalcon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys, there was a post yesterday someone put up that gave us instructions on how to put up a customized desktop that had an animated ASUS logo on it. I believe the program it had contained a Trojan virus. In fact, the post was taken off yesterday as well.
    My question is, if I restore my ASUS back to factory (I forgot the function key I have to press, was it F2?), will this undo the new vbios I installed that fixed the GSOD issues? Thanks everyone!!!!
     
    scorpionfalcon, Dec 25, 2010
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  2. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    no, the firmware changes are permanent.
     
    Chastity, Dec 25, 2010
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    rorage Notebook Evangelist

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    but if you want you can "downgrade" your vbios
     
    rorage, Dec 25, 2010
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    josh22 Notebook Consultant

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    the customized destop thread you speak of was how to enable dreams in win 7....I am using it and there was NO virus in it... :).....not sure your problem
     
    josh22, Dec 25, 2010
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    Kaelang Requires more Witcher.

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    I'm using it as well and there was no virus present.
     
    Kaelang, Dec 25, 2010
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    BattleNut Notebook Consultant

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    There are a couple Anti Virus programs that are giving a positive on the virus check for these downloads. It must be a false positive that they are seeing and when this is seen they think they have a Virus of course.
    I had three calls on this yesterday but on my system it did not see anything wrong nor find a Virus .
    If a virus program throws up a positive then most users are going to assume that it has a virus even if it is False .
    I do not blame anyone for reporting this as a Virus as they have no other way to tell other than to take the word of there Anti Virus program.
     
    BattleNut, Dec 26, 2010
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  7. scorpionfalcon

    scorpionfalcon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, that is what happened. My AntiVirus software said it was a virus. To clear it up, the thread was already deleted by the time I started this post.
     
    scorpionfalcon, Dec 26, 2010
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    The thread in question violates Microsoft's licensing agreement, you cannot distribute windows components like that, so it was removed.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Dec 26, 2010
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