Computer Virus

Nearly every TR member has probably encountered a computer virus. The most important things to know are that when you get one, how are you going to get rid of it, and how to not let it trick you. I have learned a bit over the past 48 hours. I went on a website, and all of the sudden it froze up, and apparently a fake windows antivirus came up saying I have 27 trojan viruses. It popped up every time I opened up something, and so the only thing to do was to pull up my menu with ctrl alt dlt, and terminate the process, eradicating it until I opened something new up. It was all a trap, to try to get me to buy some antivirus online, which would probably just give me a program that would truly screw up my computer. Luckily, I knew I had nothing called windows antivirus, and kept from clicking it or messing with it much. I currently use norton antivirus, which somehow was not getting rid of the virus. Luckily, this morning when I logged on, it popped up and told me a trojan virus posing as av.exe has been eradicated. I am free at last.

So, basically, this thread is to say if you have had any viruses in the past, and how you have dealt with them. Or, if you haven't dealt with them, and they are still plaguing/plagued your computer, so other people can try to help you.