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2010-12-31 , 12:52
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Try connecting the n900 to the computer and running antivirus and anti spyware programs. Make sure that when using the programs the n900 is included in the scans.
Personally I would use:
AVG free - http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

and

Spybot search and destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
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2011-01-01 , 03:54
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Originally Posted by mattbutsko View Post
Yeah but how many Windows viruses are out there to destroy NOT-Windows? Like, maybe four. As possible as it may be, we gotta think realistic.
They don't have to be designed specificly for non-Windows file systems, with all the non-standard ways to read and write to drives they can come up with to avoid certain types of detection, and considering virus makers usually don't care for keeping the user's data and hardware safe, the odds of viruses ****ing up your non-windows partitions isn't small at all.
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2011-01-01 , 04:10
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Disable autorun on all computers. I believe windows 7 has that disabled by default. That's how viruses execute themselves when you plug-in your flashdrive.
 

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2011-01-01 , 04:17
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
They don't have to be designed specificly for non-Windows file systems, with all the non-standard ways to read and write to drives they can come up with to avoid certain types of detection, and considering virus makers usually don't care for keeping the user's data and hardware safe, the odds of viruses ****ing up your non-windows partitions isn't small at all.
Right, but 99.999% of malware written for windows is made to attack Windows. You gotta think realistically, although it's possible, it just generally doesn't happen.
 

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2011-01-01 , 04:42
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Originally Posted by retsaw View Post
But it makes it a pain to connect to the computer, you could use ext2ifs so Windows can read it, but then once Windows can read the filesystem a virus can infect it. So you might as well just not bother to connect it.

In my experience even when you only use Linux using regular Linux filesystems for removable storage is a pain because of permissions.
Windows permissions are a pain, too.

Is there any single OS in the world which:
1. has only one user, with only one password;
2. before allowing a program to read/write to a file/directory, asks user and then writes down permissions for this program (with hash and full path of the program, so that when the program is modified/infected/updated/moved to another directory, the user is asked about all the permissions again).

Thus, it would be not files which have different permissions; it would be programs which have different permissions.
 
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2011-01-02 , 00:15
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Originally Posted by aligatro View Post
Disable autorun on all computers. I believe windows 7 has that disabled by default. That's how viruses execute themselves when you plug-in your flashdrive.
Some weeks ago i read about this technique that exploited a flaw in the way Windows deal with program icons that was being used to run a virus even when the the user did nothing but open the folder where it was stored. Autorun isn't the only alternative, you can never really be 100% secure.
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2011-01-02 , 00:58
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I'm to tall for this actually
me being a actor on tv
 
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2011-05-24 , 10:57
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hi all,
i am not an expert in mobile or computer tecnology
i am using n900 and yestrday i downloaded some datas and podcasts. my n900 working very very slowly after this. i have also installed some softwares to it.
now i am facing a big problom.
i think my mobile affected by virus.
is there any anti virus for n900.
please send me details in step by step
please send me link too
mails2aju@gmail.com
i am waiting for your help
 
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2011-05-24 , 11:02
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how can i formate my n900...
what will hapens to my already installed softwares like flashlight,gpodder,games ets by formating
 
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2011-05-24 , 11:05
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[Edit] This is a very old thread which has been restarted. Please post your problem in a new thread to prevent misinformation from previous posts.
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