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Virus warning!!!!

smle2009

smle2009

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Hi every one
one to watch out for is a e-mail re msm messager to know who has blocked you..DO NOT open it,it askes for e-mail address & password! Will not allow you to junk it, these can seemingly be sent from friends ect(who have not sent it),next you will get junk e-mails advertising viagra & some thing about gaining 31"! these contain trojans,allso you will get a rouge antivirus called system pro telling you that you are under attack,DO NOT CLICK ON SCAN OR ATTACK VIRUS set your own a/v on all files and scan,took me two hours to track down 12 viruses!!!!!
Regards Tony
 
smle2009 said:
Hi every one
one to watch out for is a e-mail re msm messager to know who has blocked you..DO NOT open it,it askes for e-mail address & password! Will not allow you to junk it, these can seemingly be sent from friends ect(who have not sent it),next you will get junk e-mails advertising viagra & some thing about gaining 31"! these contain trojans,allso you will get a rouge antivirus called system pro telling you that you are under attack,DO NOT CLICK ON SCAN OR ATTACK VIRUS set your own a/v on all files and scan,took me two hours to track down 12 viruses!!!!!
Regards Tony
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Yep ive been getting these viagra emails everyday and allsorts of instant remedies for this that and the other,which all i have been able to do was install spam fighter pro which has junked 4000 odd emails in 9 months:sad:

This was caused by a good friend of mine in the states who had his email
hi jacked and i unwittingly opened one up:tinysmile_cry_t4:

Getting a guy around to go through the system and straighten things up
soon,although my email is still safe

Best phil
 
waffenamt said:
:xd::xd:...


Seriously though chaps,ive always found MSN to be virus-riddled. I always warn my nephew not to go near it when using my PC.

cheers

waff
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Hi Waff, I,ve never used MSN but these MSN e-mails still get through!
Satan 18 ,I also use a spam filter,they do not stop this virus,on my anti virus report after the dust had settled,asked me to fill in a questionere, as it as unknown...like to get hold of the tosser who programed it!!!
 
the nudie virus

The only time I had virus trouble, it had to be cleaned by my server and a system restore. The server told some scoundrel had been viewing porno on my machine and I sure would like to catch the culprit that was watching nudies on my machine (probably one of my boys)!! Now I don't open email that is even in the least suspect..Dano
 
Hope this helps....

MSN ,,,ah the bain of our lifes with viruses, and of course the odd bit of pervin :)
viruses are rife wearever you go on the internet, I get so many that seem to be
originated from Poland, any way we use the following and never any trouble in last 3 years,,, only when i forgot to extend the liscence and fotgot my server,,,,,,baaad move,,,very baaad, but all good now.

Nod 32 by Eset is one,if not the best a/v proggy out there.
it does drag the pc down to a grinding halt like Norton av does.

The following links are to the three main proggys that seem to sork for me.

A/V protection small subscription but well worth it.
http://www.eset.co.uk/?gclid=CLaszffVip0CFcQB4wod8j242g

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Adaware Se Personal edition
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php


Regards
Nick
 
Just to ad to that..

On every machine I setup, I use Spybot Search And Destroy as mentioned, but as for Anti-Virus, the most reliable I've found is Avira AntiVir. It picks up more than the rest of them, doesnt impact the performance of your machine and has a free version, you just have to click OK on a window that appears whenever it updates itself.. but thats a small price to pay for reliable protection.

For additional Spyware/Malware protection I suggest trying out Malware Antibytes.

If I know a machine is infected, I install Spybot, Avira AND Malware Antibytes, then Run scans with all 3 in windows safe mode. That should clear any problems.
 
Hi bolo,
I use Avira as well, at first it did not pick up these virus because the default was set to smart extensions while doing a scan,changed it to scan all files and it picked up 12 virus's! I agree with you it is a good system,one thing I like about it is that you can scan a download ect with it with out doing a full scan,you can get rid of the file download box by ticking the don't show this message again box....wish could get rid of the upgrade pop up though!!
Cheers Tony
 
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