from downloading F.E.A.R Combat from fangaming.com
2007-03-26 12:03:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It all depends on where Fangaming.com got the file to begin with. If it came direct from the game manufacture, the chance of a virus being attached is very, very low. If they got it from a third party, the chance increases each step the software was finally received from the original manufacture.
Any time you download software and the original manufacture did not supply the file, you take a chance that someone else attached a virus to it.
2007-03-26 12:11:20 · answer #1 · answered by seamus1066 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People now advise you to install Windows without your highspeed attachment to the net till you can get the firewall up, all the service patches (I download them all separately), install an antivirus, then plug in the ethernet cable, connect to the Internet, upgrade the antivirus definitions and away I go. But now I mostly use Linux where viri aren't an issue yet.
2007-03-26 19:09:32 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could lose everything based on the virus but if u have a virus scan you should be ok
and example of this would be the blue screen virus it destroys everything
2007-03-26 19:12:27 · answer #3 · answered by omega101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard of a few viruses that can upload themselves into the motherboards firmware, if that then there is no fix and the pc would haft to go in the trash!
2007-03-26 19:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by Spyro The Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the virus, but you could lose everything in your machine with some viruses.
2007-03-26 19:06:17 · answer #5 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋