Posted by Calvin in Contest & Promos, Security, Software | 65 Comments
We’re giving away 10 copies of Norton 360 version 5.0
Ok guys, if you think it’s time to ditch that free antivirus of yours and want to opt for a more secure and all-around antivirus, you may want to join this simple contest.
Norton from Symantec has given us 10 copies of their latest Norton 360 version 5.0 (SRP: P2,700). This is Norton’s most complete version of security suite. It has AntiVirus and Internet Security combined plus a lot more features without compromising your system’s precious resources.
These copies we’re giving away are not just for one license but it’s good for a year’s subscription for three users. So if you have three PCs in your household then you might want to take this opportunity.
Ok, so what do you have to do? It’s simple.
- In less than 100 words, tell your worst virus attack ever by leaving a comment here. Did you lose a month-long worth of work because of it? Did it corrupt your school project? Did it infect other machines in the household?
- If you have Twitter, follow @NortonOnline on Twitter.
- Or if you have Facebook, like their page at www.facebook.com/norton
- (Optional) Add us on Facebook at www.facbeook.com/officialPTB
- Finally share this post on your Twitter or Facebook!
NOTE: If you don’t see your comment right away, it means it fell into the spam box. I’ll fish them out manually from time to time.
Deadline of entries would be on the 22nd of April. I will be picking the 10 most cleverly-written but still believable answers who would be getting a 3-license copy of Norton 360 version 5.0. I know you can fabricate your story without me knowing so help yourself. 
IMPORTANT: Winners should be able to provide a Metro Manila shipping address or else we’ll have to choose another winner.
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Hi! My comment was caught in the spam filter. Kindly publish. Thanks a lot.
A week before design project deadline(circa 2002). After ruining a 2nd project PC I made sure to back up of project files at home. Unknowingly, my cousin had been visiting and using our desktop to download stuffs and copying my mp3 files which ultimately infected our computer.The AV notification update kept on popping up and I kept ignoring thinking it was just delaying our work. While opening one of our files, I watched in horror as the screen was slowly being reduced to a blank page as if a someone was chomping off the screen.
Followed Norton on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/#!/maarja_yasmina/status/60080673460977664
my worst virus attcak happened in an internet cafe, I lost 2 gig worth of files, including the homework I was about to email!
Good thing i burned a back-up file of that homework in a CD. whew!
I was doing (read: cramming) a presentation for school. It was around 4 AM when my laptop suddenly shut down. I turned it on and it loaded until the Windows logo appears but would shut down again after. I kept turning it on hoping for some miracle but nothing happened. I was really panicking. I felt so helpless. I couldn’t go to a repair shop that day because I was short on cash. I had to wait for my mother who was visiting over the weekend. It was my first and worst virus attack. The whole experience was pure torture!
So quiet, so still was our library. My classmate and I were using one of the few computers in library… copy-pasting our homework when we decided to add some Wikipedia article.
Ecstatically – we opened the Internet Explorer. Boom! Our blood rose up in our head. The librarian yelled, “Hoy, wag kayo magporn!! Bawal yan”. Every got a glimpse of what was happening on our computer. REDTUBE.COM , homepage.
So quiet, so still – we went out. Ashamed. It was indeed not our intention.
SoWar.Vbs was the culprit. We did not pass our homework and went home. Thanks, sowar.
–liked norton and ptb on fb.
YES! Our company finally allowed me to work from home and it feels like heaven! What can go wrong? My first day began with our IT guy remote accessing my laptop to install some programs that I would need to my home based work. As I go watch the magical cursor fly all around the screen I was all smiles when suddenly – BOOM! – a blue screen error! A fatal virus… nice. Now I have to wait until my laptop resurrects before I can work from home (which lasted longer than I expected… just great).
its a big disaster.. imagine, i was just doing a check with my email, since i am a contest lover i always check my email for updates and i dont even care about scams.. then, i notice “FedEx” sent me an email that my packages are coming 10 days from the email has been sent.. for tracking numbers i can download the file that has been attached to the email so that i can view it and track it too. what i did was, i download it.. and it destroys my applications and some of my files that has been installed in my pc and i wasn’t able to open my computer for a week.. i brought my pc to the nearest repair shop (SM).. so they told me what to download and not especially if it comes to someone’s email whom i dont even know.. a lesson which ive learnes so much.. and having a temporary anti-virus doesn’t help at all..
but luckily all are okay..
I lent my usb to my friend because she lost hers, said it’s for research. She returned it to me on time and for that I thought there were no problems. That day, my dad told me to back-up his files. So without caution I inserted the usb and copied his files. Damn, not only were my father’s files corrupted, his computer’s totally busted! I asked my friend why there were a lot of virus in my usb and she confessed to me that she used it in a public computer and forgot to scan it at home. Grrr!
Followed on Twitter: @verapao and RT
What I recently experienced on my computer was a proper computer virus attack. Despite the fact that I was the one who got its base of 500 MB on my computer, but little had I known something like this could happen. If you’re Torrent addicted like me, then I can only say one thing better be very very careful while choosing a torrent to download and when someone says something like it is unreliable and the torrent gets deleted from the database, then they really mean it. I thought they were just saying that because of copyright claims.
What happened to my computer could be expected if I had known that the whole thing was a big fat virus. I searched up a torrent for one of the soviftwares I wanted really bad. A very recent torrent with a lot of seeders, just what I was looking for and it was approximately 570 MB. Once it was downloaded, I didn’t get the time to install it instantly so after 2 days, I went back to it’s torrent page to look for it’s key and the torrent website displayed “Torrent deleted”, I thought that was because of copyright problems and continued to the setup.
Worst Computer Virus AttackI had recently deleted the Trial version of Anti-virus guard from my computer and now tried to install kaspersky which was giving me key problems, so I was unprotected in terms of an anti-virus. As I tried to install the software I had downloaded, I got an error. I felt a bit fishy about that but then I saw a folder which said setup, I double-clicked that and there was this file of about 40 MB which said setup and looked just like it, I opened it and nothing happened. Acting impatient as I am, I tried to open it again and then I saw this Command Prompt window which said ‘Copying file 1 of 1′. I closed the window and saw all of my desktop files being deleted and new files being added to the desktop. I tried to open Task Manager, but it said “Task Manager has been disabled by the administrator”. Although I am the administrator on the computer. I felt freaky about that, but now there was no way to get to My Computer and once I got there, Drive C and D were hidden.
So overall, Task manager was disabled. Desktop was deleted, drives were hidden as well as My computer. Browsing could not be done, and there was kind of a complete ban on downloading. There was no way to open Run or to Log off. The computer wasn’t detecting a USB either. The wallpaper was changed to an image which said ‘Your privacy is in Danger’. Out of nowhere this website was popping in and out asking me to download their anti-virus, when I tried to do that my computer restarted automatically. Its base file were write-protected by now.
It was more like a free country being taken over by a whole army of outlaws and goon masterminds. Some knowledge that I had of these things of an operating system, I managed to enable the task manager in the safe mode using group policy. But that was it, I knew nothing more about it, I couldn’t get an anti-virus without which there was no way to get the virus out, I was just left to one choice. Format the whole computer and say good-bye to all the good stuff I had in there.
I lost all of the important things on my computer, and learned a lesson for once. Never download a bad torrent. But how do you know if it is a bad torrent? Now you can check my post about finding the best torrent although the points below are important:
Only download torrents which are at least 1-2 days old.
Read their comments and take them seriously.
Make sure you have a good anti-virus
If you feel fishy about the whole thing , then ask an expert before proceeding on the whole thing.
Viruses are usually in the disguise in torrents of softwares.
It was our first WinMe .So Being a noob I tried of using generic scanner cuz I don’t care so much. I keep on downloading stuffs and going into unsecured sites cause of my carelessness. One morning came I was surprised I cant open the computer neither connect to the internet. So Several tweaks i did but still the virus still there. Upon several days passed We’re shocked one day the computer failed on us, it exploded! Maybe because of long hours of using it, the computer became slower that it overheated. Eventually motherboard break and so we cry.
(shared your post and followed norton@FB http://www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=161123343947627&id=100001994136158 )
Bout a year ago, I downloaded what I thought was the movie Stealth. (I had just gotten broadband and hadn’t learned my way around the scene just yet. Was using limewire).
I downloaded what I believe was a package installer. The first problem I had was that my computer suddenly had to restart, so i did it.
When I booted up what do you know, my bios password had been changed! Keep in mind, this was with an older PC and I hadn’t dealt with BIOS screw ups in the past. I ended up using a school computer to discover how to flash my bios.
Okay, that was good, had it booted again. Or not. The thing was slow. SLOOOOW. Like maple syrup on a icy day SLOOOOOW. I booted into safe mode, still SLOOOOW, and ran my anti virus. No help. Ran spyware. Natta. Did everything in the book. NOTHING WORKED. Ran Hijackthis! The damn thing stopped scanning as soon as I hit the go button.
Eventually I just formatted my HDD and reloaded windows onto it. Never had a problem with the bios again. Never used limewire either actually.