Not since I was like 10, I got a friend of a friend to burn me a CD with some games on it, there was one game in particular I wanted, well, that one game I was especially interested in out of the 3 or 4 on the disc had a virus, and I thought "ah, I have to copy it to my HDD for the AV to clean it because the CD is read only" (not realizing that "cleaning" to an AV means deleting the file)
But nothing happened when I copied it, I expected my AV to automatically scan it and warn me. So not knowing how to run a scan on just those files, I figured "I'll run it, the AV will pop up and prevent it from starting and then I'll be able to clean it" but I was wrong. I lived for a few months with constant crashes, slowdowns and full screen blue McAfee warnings, before my uncle reinstalled Windows on it for me.
But nothing happened when I copied it, I expected my AV to automatically scan it and warn me. So not knowing how to run a scan on just those files, I figured "I'll run it, the AV will pop up and prevent it from starting and then I'll be able to clean it" but I was wrong. I lived for a few months with constant crashes, slowdowns and full screen blue McAfee warnings, before my uncle reinstalled Windows on it for me.
I have Nox, and I haven't experienced those issues. My AV usually warns me about bundled malware anyway.
