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PostPosted: May Wed 31, 2006 7:54 am 
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It sounds like a scam. I get pop ups like that all the time from discovery.com and cnn.


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I would ignore it... You do have everything you need backed up, right????

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And good morning and I love you Colleen....

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Calin,
It is probably a pop-up ad trying to get you to buy their anti virus. Since you use Symantic, which is an excellent anit-virus application, you don't need their software. But it may be a ploy to get you to click and then it's possible you could get some malicious download. With Symantic don't let your subscription expire and continue to update the virus definitions frequently if you do not allow the program to do automatic updates.

A good site to get free spyware is the Kim Komando site. You should run at least two spyware applications on a regular basis. I like to use Ad-Aware and Spybot. Both of these and other can be found at kim's web site. There are others there as well. See:
http://www.komando.com/bestshareware.asp#adware

One more thing. I like to use the Mozilla Firefox browser in place of Internet Explorer. Firefox can be downloaded at:
http://download-firefox.org/

Both IE or Firefox have pop up blocker options, which can help with problem you described.

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You have spyware on your computer, it's not a virus, but simular, the newest Symantic software has the spam, virus and spyware all included in one easy to use product. I've been using it for a year now and it works great. These spyware programs really dog your computer down also

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PostPosted: Jun Fri 02, 2006 9:54 am 
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SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. THE THREAT IS CALLED VIRTUMONDE.C.
I HAVE RUN MY SPYWARE, ANTI VIRUS, WINDOWS DEFENDER AND I USE A PROGRAM I DOWNLOADED FROM MSN WEBSITE CALLED MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVEABLE TOOL. THEY ALL SAY MY SYSTEM IS CLEAN.
I DID A SEARCH OF THE HARD DRIVE AND PLUGGED IN THE NAME AND CAME UP WITH INFO ON THIS THAT IS I THINK COMING FROM SOME WHERE IN CHINA AND I THINK ADAWARE IS PART OF IT.
I AM NOT A COMPUTER GEEK SO I KNOW I DONT HAVE ALL THE FACTS ON ALL THIS STUFF BUT JUST BE CAREFUL WH, WHAT AND WHERE YOU GO AND WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD IN HERE.
THOSE CUTE LITTLE AVATARS (SP) YOU DOWNLOAD ARE FULL OF SPYWARE AND OTHER JUNK.
JUST BE CAREFUL


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