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19452Some very crooked people will go any length to get access to your computer. Some will just screw up everything but others are in it to get ahold of personal info. Right now I am afraid to use my debit card on my machine. My son will place my orders on his computer and have it sent to mine. He places 90% of my orders from E.L. on Sunday evenings or if I go to his house on Sundays, I will
use his computer. He has it where I can sign in on his. I have a strange message that keeps popping up on mine when I shut it down...so, I do not use mine for anything secure!
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11877The one I caught was called rootkit.zeroaccess and it installs itself into the tcip stack used for the internet and renames itself and reinstalls. It is a nightmare! Thankfully I have a cousin who gave me another machine... he says mine is fine, but he doesn't trust it, and I am starting to like this machine!
173691Uhh yep, if it's the same one you're referring to - another fake security virus - then grrr, I've just finished collecting all the tools to fix my daughter's lappy. Thankfully she's computer savvy & called me into her room before clicking on anything, but we had to shut down her lappy because of a storm (we were having power surges), so tomorrow it will be purged. She must have "allowed" the program in (perhaps clicked a suss link) which isn't at all like her, and it's odd that her antivirus didn't catch it. Sigh.
Be warned that it can ask you if you want to delete such & such a file because it's infected, but in reality it's not, and you may delete a system-critical file. If you get infected, go offline (as in off the internet) and get rid of the infection asap. xXx
4309how can you tell it from a real up date?
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by danababes
18 Jan 2012
It will nag you to buy it or register it .. its a scam to try to trick you into buying the cure .. urgh.
by meganne
18 Jan 2012
Real updates are, by default, automatically downloaded onto your pc, unless you have blocked this windows option. Best rule of thumb: don't open ANYTHING unless it is from someone in your personal address list and even then you sometimes need to be careful.
If you have any doubts, before you open it, write to the sender and ask if they DID send it.
by meganne
18 Jan 2012
careful.
If you have any doubts, before you open it, write to the sender and ask if they DID send it.
85867I can't imagine someone with the meaness in them to do something like this. They must have absolutely no life. Thanks for the heads up.
23222Thanks for warning, I had that and also lucky too busy to do it. Frightening as it seems real
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