virus that turns of protection

[Ron]

A few days ago something got into my pc and disabled my anti-virus,
anti-trojan and firewall. This stopped me from running these programs
to check and remove viruses. I disconnected from the internet
immediately as I once had a similar thing happen (before I put the
firewall on) and the pc went crazy sending hundreds of emails
automatically, which the anti virus tried to block, resulting in my
screen being covered in messages.
I have had to reformat my drive and load everything again.
Is this some sort of new virus and does anyone know if it can be
blocked?

Cheers
Ron

 

[dude]

Go here:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

use it.

Cheers,

J

 

[Apogee]

Does panda scan .rar files and all other archive & compression file formats
such as .zip which I should imagine it does. I used it a couple of years ago
and it did not scan .rar files making it at the time not quite "100%"

 

[David H. Lipman]

Maybe you failed to enable "scan archive files" or whatever Panda called it.

Dave

| Does panda scan .rar files and all other archive & compression file formats
| such as .zip which I should imagine it does. I used it a couple of years ago
| and it did not scan .rar files making it at the time not quite "100%"
|
|

 

[optikl]

Does panda scan .rar files and all other archive & compression file formats
such as .zip which I should imagine it does. I used it a couple of years ago
and it did not scan .rar files making it at the time not quite "100%"

Better ask the Dude. He says Panda is the only product that has never, ever,
missed a virus; even "unknown" viruses! I'd go straight to the authority, if
I were you.