TehDanMan wrote: What is the reloaded and shifting you speak of?

And Mike, lolz. Really? I sent you a PM.

And what was symantec kicking off about?

I had NFS Shift installed from my legit copy but grabbed the exe off Anreill's pc to use as a no-cd patch and Mcaffee and MalwareBytes haven't found anything so far.
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Did you run the key-gen?

That may have been an oversight on my part... Nope, I didn't run the keygen and didn't even copy it off his PC I believe.

Act like I was never here...
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Hahahaa! fuckers. serves you right for dissing my Symantec.

Anreill, those false positives aren't false. keygens are significant chance of having a trojan tucked along with. When I recently moved my massive directory of game patches to a new hardrive, symantec found several trojans, mostly the keygens, in shit as far back as 2002 for bf1942 and some newer stuff too. It seems every time I do a full scan it finds some. This is like the 3rd or 4th time either by doing a full scan or upgrading drives that its found something.

Buy your damn games already!
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honestly I haven't run any kind of antivirus for years at this point.....I just watch my processes, programs and registry. And a few useful programs that I run every so often (ie Spybot, Hijack This, Autoruns etc....). And even if something does sneak by.....nothing survives a fresh install of windows.....
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I've not run antivirus on any of my machines for personal reasons in years. Only time I run antivirus is on someone else's drive. I've not run hijack anything or spybot in a long time. I don't think I even messed hijack this. I also have no idea what autoruns is.
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I run AVG and Malwarebytes maybe once a week. I have both installed but neither uses autoscan or has it's automatic protection stuff enabled.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Autoruns is a great program that allows you to see processes and where they run from....it provides a great snapshot of your system....
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Cool, I've used filemon for that in the past. I'll have to start using autoruns.
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funny thread!

my advice in general:

if you are on an untrusted network, personal firewalls are necessary
full windows updates, always
nod32 for antivirus realtime and daily scans
malwarebytes and/or spybot S&D for malware scans
firefox with adblockplus and noscript, set noscript not to load his friggin adpage on every update
periodically check to see what applications are listening with netstat or if it is Win7, resmon
send suspicious files to a site like virustotal.com or virscan.org

All of the above are worthless the moment you run untrusted code (like a keygen). All of the above are worthless if someone very skilled or with a new exploit targets you specifically.

These days once your system is compromised at all, you really should clean format and reload if you can't risk identify theft or professional embarrassment.

/lurks sometimes