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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: lands on August 30, 2007, 08:55:36 pm

Title: Urgent - Virus
Post by: lands on August 30, 2007, 08:55:36 pm

Do not open any emails entitled "invitation".

Is doing rounds and eats your entire C drive

Pete

Title: Re: Urgent - Virus
Post by: Jaybee on August 31, 2007, 01:29:31 am

Incorrect - this is a hoax virus that does not exist and the only viral element of it is people passing on the word. This is almost always the case with these types of "virus"

Title: Re: Urgent - Virus
Post by: murky on August 31, 2007, 01:23:10 pm

Also watch out for avsystemcare. They ask you if you want your system cleaned as it appears to be running slow, it also has the same logo writing as wanadoo so I fell for it.

Getting my system cleaned at the weekend.

Murky

Title: Re: Urgent - Virus
Post by: calmore on September 03, 2007, 06:54:29 pm

EVERYONE should have a virus scanner. There is an EXCELLENT free one here: http://free.grisoft.com/