How did this occur?

**mrdeano** · 09-03-2010 01:15 AM

I was using two laptops at once. The first one was sat beside me displaying facebook while I was building a website on the other.
I wasn't even touching the one with facebook on when all of a sudden my AVG anti virus pops up with a threat.
The pop up listed about 4 or 5 viruses in the AppData folder. So I just clicked 'Remove selected files' but nothing happened or changed.
My laptop suddenly went berserk, I kept getting pop-ups saying 'Application cannot open ***.exe is infected'
I just spent the last hour or so removing the virus and getting my laptop back to a normal state.

I was wondering how this virus got on my system. Like I said, the only website open at the time was Facebook and I wasn't downloading or running anything.

Any ideas?

**OldNutter** · 09-03-2010 01:17 AM

There are face book viruses running around right now, that might be why you got a virus.

**mrdeano** · 09-03-2010 01:19 AM

Do you think I should change my facebook password now?

**OldNutter** · 09-03-2010 01:29 AM

maybe... You should to be safe, but I don't think it steals your Pwd.

Edit: Not making any guaranties about that's were you got the Virus, but yeah.

**Marvo** · 09-03-2010 01:58 AM

If you remember the name of the virus that AVG reported, you should try googling that and see what's up. If you can't remember the name, AVG probably has a log somewhere, that has the name recorded.