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Mobius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 06:45 AM
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I had 3 viruses and was DUless for over a day! Ask me anything!
:cry:
viruses all gone now
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Mobius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 06:50 AM
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1. I can see everyone gives a shit
lol
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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 06:53 AM
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2. Do you know how you got them
welcome back.
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gonefishing Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 06:57 AM
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3. How did you get the viruses?
Did you open any attachments?

One of my sales guys got a virus last week and I spent a half a day cleaning up his machine. We identified an email he received that caused the virus (he opened the attachment). I am now really paranoid and am updating my virus signature every day and doing netstat almost every hour.

I was just wondering if you can get the viruses if you don't open any attachments.
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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 06:59 AM
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4. Turn preview off in email
some get thru that way.
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gonefishing Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 07:01 AM
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5. Thanks
Edited on Thu Mar-04-04 07:04 AM by gonefishing
I did not know that. I have been thinking of just using mail2web.com for all my emails instead of using outlook. Do you think that would make a difference?

Between SPAM and Viruses I am loosing more and more of my already shortened days.
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demsrule4life Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 07:26 AM
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6. Virus checker, virus checker, virus checker, virus checker
Any questions?
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gonefishing Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 09:29 AM
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10. Yea
It akes two hours to run a virus scan on my laptop?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 08:09 AM
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7. I'm glad you're back!
Sorry about the virii.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 08:10 AM
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8. Did you miss me?
:D
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Mobius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 08:16 AM
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9. I downloaded some naked pictures
:evilfrown:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 09:32 AM
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11. That's what ya git - ya dang pervert!
;-)

Just kidding...anybody famous? LOL!
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Mobius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 10:40 AM
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14. I found some really good fakes
by this guy called Yovo.
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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 09:52 AM
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12. The biggest problem there is with the stealth dialers
some sites try to install.

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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 10:25 AM
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13. can you see my precious angela davis avatar?
...that you made??? huh? thanks much.

i got mozilla firefox yesterday to help hide from the nasty viruses.. it's nice and fresh and squeaky clean still.
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 10:53 AM
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15. my computer was riddled with viruses
after I went to a Clark yahaoo message board. Might be where you picked it up, too. Someone had a bad virus that she passed to a lot of people there. (NOT clarktopia)
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 11:58 AM
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16. Withdrawal symptoms
after a day without DU I walk around with a glazed look, slobber, lose feeling in my extremities, it's a major pain. I got an attachment from someone in my address book, this person has never ever sent me anything with an attachement.
So, before I said oh that's safe I listened to my inner voice sent them a mail asking what they had sent, and got the reply that they hadn't sent anything.
Now, anyone who sends an attachment has to verify it.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-04 02:30 PM
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17. Glad you are free
Make sure you run an AV and update it. :hi:
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