Number six - I was using the term 'virus' in the layman's sense: any malware that infects your PC. So a Trojan would count, for example. As would a worm.

Like some others I've had just one many years ago. Was it before we realised how *real* a threat the whole internet is and before we all took protection seriously? Yeah, probably!

Just been given some documents on a pen drive -
autorun.inf [L] BV:AutoRun-S [Wrm] (0)

Person had uninstalled AVAst from his machinee because it kept telling him he had viruses (viri?)

My avast flagged it up when I inserted the drive.
AVAST remove the virus to the chest but it was also hiding in a recycler on the drive but another scan with AVAST found and removed it.

I had a virus about 18 years ago, long before I started using the internet. It actually came on a new build PC where the company tested it before delivery. It would not allow me to use the floppy drive so I returned the computer thinking that it was a faulty drive. It took the company all day to sort it out as it only became apparent that it was a virus when another customer complained of the same problem. Dr. Solomon sorted it out and myself and the other customer both received a copy of it with instructions to use it to check all our floppy disks. Despite the fact that the virus would apparently not let the drive work it had managed to infect every floppy that I had tried in it. Lesson learnt and I have taken precautions ever since.

Not sure what it was, but a few years back, the computer that I was using came up with all the red warning messages and the computer went into distress. Got it sorted by the local computer repair shop.

Had a couple of possible trojans, but they were taken care by the safety devices installed.

False-Positives. Now thats another past subject, mainly caused by ignorant downloading :O(