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Re: Virus
Posted: September 17th, 2009, 8:32 am
by BullHound
Make sure your passwords on your accounts are complex. Use capital letters, numbers and symbols to make it harder to break. I had my Paypal account hacked a couple of years ago and they tried to get me for $2000. Luckily, Paypal caught it and I was able to get PAB to stop payment. They were really on top of things at the bank for me. Good luck!
Re: Virus
Posted: September 17th, 2009, 10:17 am
by qoutrage
Lot of good advise above. Wat bullhound sez about passwords is particularly good.
I've been running the 'free home edition Avast anti-virus' on my wifes work computers for several years without problems.. It updates near daily and runs seamlessly.
I don't run any a/v on my personal computers, so have to be careful what I click on and I never open mail from anyone I don't know, and very few attachments to mail from those I do know. That and I use yahoo/aol mail rather than ms OE.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Re: Virus
Posted: September 17th, 2009, 1:02 pm
by red_yakker
boggob wrote:I recently got hit with "PC Antispyware 2010" which appears like a windows update. I normally don't click on such things but this one tricked me. I had to reformat.
Same thing happened to me a year ago, on my work computer no less.....
As I was hitting the "update" button, I saw a typo in the message... too late.