My pc was running fine, with Norton AntiVirus and Norton Firewall, untill i had to have the hard drive replaced recently. Upon re-installing both parts of Norton, the firewall wouldnt let me access most of the web, even when set up properly, one day it worked fine, then another it wouldnt. So I decided to uninstall the whole of Norton, and use my trusty AVG Antivirus and re-install BlackIce as my firewall, which I'd stopped using before because it conflicted with norton AntiVirus!
Everything was fine, got the most up-to-date version of AVG, and then decided to see if I could update BlackIce, as this was only a free evaluation version. No problem, got on the site, downloaded the update, then went to install it. It asked me for a pass word if I'd purchased the update, as I hadnt I pressed the NO button to see what would happen. It continued to load the update, so I thought that it must just be a lesser version. On compleation it finished and that was it.
A little while later I moved the messenger box across the screen, and it suddenly went larger than normal, but I couldnt re-size it? :confused:
Then I couldnt open Internet Explorer!
Then somthing else wouldnt open!!
To cut a long process down, I eventually came to the conclusion that this BlackIce update must have done somthing, so opened up settings and tried to open Add/Remove progs,........nothing!!!
Basically I was not in control of the pc at all :(
In the end and after a few re-boots, my only course of action was to do a full re-install of the OS :cry:
As it's only been a few weeks since the new hard drive was installed, I havent lost much stuff on it. But I'm more concerned that this has happened in the first place.
So has ISS, the maker of BlackIce, deliberatley sent me a virus, on the understanding that I havent paid anything to them, so they'll Fvck my pc up. If so, is this leagal????
And if they havent, how the hell did it happen :confused:
Your views and comments are more than welcome.
Oh! And as I said, it was an evaluation copy, and not pirated software, so i beleive that makes it freeware.
Right, this is a moan and a warning!!
My pc was running fine, with Norton AntiVirus and Norton Firewall, untill i had to have the hard drive replaced recently. Upon re-installing both parts of Norton, the firewall wouldnt let me access most of the web, even when set up properly, one day it worked fine, then another it wouldnt. So I decided to uninstall the whole of Norton, and use my trusty AVG Antivirus and re-install BlackIce as my firewall, which I'd stopped using before because it conflicted with norton AntiVirus!
Everything was fine, got the most up-to-date version of AVG, and then decided to see if I could update BlackIce, as this was only a free evaluation version. No problem, got on the site, downloaded the update, then went to install it. It asked me for a pass word if I'd purchased the update, as I hadnt I pressed the NO button to see what would happen. It continued to load the update, so I thought that it must just be a lesser version. On compleation it finished and that was it.
A little while later I moved the messenger box across the screen, and it suddenly went larger than normal, but I couldnt re-size it? :confused:
Then I couldnt open Internet Explorer!
Then somthing else wouldnt open!!
To cut a long process down, I eventually came to the conclusion that this BlackIce update must have done somthing, so opened up settings and tried to open Add/Remove progs,........nothing!!!
Basically I was not in control of the pc at all :(
In the end and after a few re-boots, my only course of action was to do a full re-install of the OS :cry:
As it's only been a few weeks since the new hard drive was installed, I havent lost much stuff on it. But I'm more concerned that this has happened in the first place.
So has ISS, the maker of BlackIce, deliberatley sent me a virus, on the understanding that I havent paid anything to them, so they'll Fvck my pc up. If so, is this leagal????
And if they havent, how the hell did it happen :confused:
Your views and comments are more than welcome.
Oh! And as I said, it was an evaluation copy, and not pirated software, so i beleive that makes it freeware.
DAVE