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IronNoggin

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Nasty Virus Alert!
« on: December 18, 2013, 06:27:33 PM »
Heads Up Folks!

Today I received an Email titled: "Your Amazon.com order (and then a sequence of numbers...)".

Now I well knew I personally had NOT made any orders through Amazon...

But...

Maybe The Missuz did! 'Tis that time of year after all... Hmmmmmm...

So I Stupidly decided to Sneak A Peek and maybe just find out what She might have got me for Christmas...

MISTAKE!  :o

Although two of the AV programs caught it, the damn thing managed to disable one of them (taking an hour to get back up to snuff) and was a Real PAIN to eventually get rid of! Keep in mind I run 4 AV programs at all times. This one was NASTY!

Thought I'd letcha all know, Be Careful out there!!

Cheers,
Nog - Thankfully Back Up & Running...
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Fillibert

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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2013, 08:38:38 PM »
Get a Mac?...
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2013, 11:18:15 PM »
Why a Mac???...Just as many bugs for Macs now thanks to Stevo....lol ;D
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2013, 11:20:21 PM »
Quote from: IronNoggin on December 18, 2013, 06:27:33 PM
Heads Up Folks!

Today I received an Email titled: "Your Amazon.com order (and then a sequence of numbers...)".

Now I well knew I personally had NOT made any orders through Amazon...

But...

Maybe The Missuz did! 'Tis that time of year after all... Hmmmmmm...

So I Stupidly decided to Sneak A Peek and maybe just find out what She might have got me for Christmas...

MISTAKE!  :o

Although two of the AV programs caught it, the damn thing managed to disable one of them (taking an hour to get back up to snuff) and was a Real PAIN to eventually get rid of! Keep in mind I run 4 AV programs at all times. This one was NASTY!

Thought I'd letcha all know, Be Careful out there!!

Cheers,
Nog - Thankfully Back Up & Running...


Got a few of those myself but I know Amazon never sends you a zip file, and another tell tale sign is the file size...why zip a 48kb file??
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2013, 11:46:09 PM »
Download and Run Malwarebytes should clean it up pretty good for you. Its free.  For anyone with nasty malware.
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2013, 12:11:35 AM »
Second vote for Malwarebytes, great program for cleaning infected computers.
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2013, 09:57:46 AM »
Computer viruses are like STDs,the more you screw around the better your chance of getting one.
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Re: Nasty Virus Alert!
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2013, 06:18:53 PM »
I recieved one of those email. I was going to order a book from Amazon untill I found out that the shipping cost was twice the cost of the book. A day later the email appears in my inbox. I went and checked my Amazon account and no I had no book orders there. Delete. I would like to send to the originator a virus  like herpes or aids. You know some thing that they will remember for the rest of there lives.. Maybe even this is too good for them. I lost lots of personal stuff due to viruses.
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