I have spent the whole day trying to remove virus and Trojans from this bloomin' laptop, I knew I had some - my current spyware picked up a few, but today kept getting Security Alerts and my spyware showed "Fake Alert Trojan" and it was going so slow, now all this happened since Sunday and I had downloaded some stuff and now I'm sure it was infected. I also had infected files which I had placed some more downloads in. I decided to do some research and downloaded Spybot which searches and destroys Trojans,worms etc - WELL the result of the scan was - wait for it...... 14 Trojans (which my spyware had not picked all of them up), 1 Malware and 3 browser problems, so they have been destroyed now.
SO BEWARE OF DOWNLOADING FROM ANYWHERE REALLY!!!
I will certainly not be downloading so much stuff from sites or blogs because you just never know nowadays. When I was reading up about the Trojans and worms it was scarey stuff - clicking on the wrong button, site or blog just once and Wheee ! a Trojan could be winging it's way into your system - trying to get personal details etc. I knew all this already and really with all the surfing and browsing I do, I am lucky that it is such a small percentage.
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Ugh! I feel your pain sister! Last year the very same thing happened to my computer. It now sits in a closet, and I am working on my Mothers computer that I basically stole from her! I spent some money trying to fix mine, but it was getting too expensive. It was bad. I'll get it fixed someday, just not any time soon! I am so scared of downloading stuff now!
Yes it's scary Dawn...I have AVG which has a phising filter which is pretty good but none of them are foolproof....I have stopped passing on these e-mails that have been half way round the world....don't know what they contain.
Hugs
kath
xxxxx
Arg computers can't live with em can't live without em :D
Download (don't panic) Avast antivirus it's free and blooming brilliant at catching trojans before they get in,hugs juliet
oh I hate trojans and virus's!
hope you get it all sorted out.
you got much snow?
lots of love
xoxox
Hi Dawn, I know just how scary and frustrating this is - it happened to me three weeks ago and I was only looking for Penny Black stamps and ended up on a porn site. Not so cute!!! lol. I have AVG, but now I know about spybot and avast I'll find out more. Thanks, hope it sorted now. ikki
ack..that's so scary! yep..i'm so careful and am always crossing my fingers..those trojans are D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S!
aww..hun hope you get it sorted soon.
there is so much happeneing out there nowadays..you got to be very carefull what ever you click on.
hugs clarex
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