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Kabu

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The easiest way to rid yourself of those blasted email viruses is to set up a phony email address in your address book.

Add a new contact named aaa.
List the email address as [email protected].

When an infected email gets through, it runs through you address book and starts at the first name on the list which would be aaa. It tries to shoot an email to aaa but finds that it is a bad address and stops right there. It won't go to the next name on you list. Hope I made that clear.

As for protection, I use AVG Free, AVG AntiVirus, Spyware Terminator, and CCleaner. They are all very good, and the best part is they are free!
 

Kabu

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I have had one virus, politely let in by Norton :frowning: I lost a hard drive, so I dumped Norton and use only freeware and haven't had a problem since. I run AV once a week, spyware 3 times a week (excessive internet user
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I cam e across this post and wondered this myself. If you have a good anti-virus software program loaded onto your coputer, like Cyberdefender, you would be more than protected. Cyberdefender warns you of risky sites and it scan for viruses, malware and spyware. It works great, plus it the 24/7 computer support is very handy!! It's protected me good.
 

Clinton McClure

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Wow.. Bringing up old threads, but ok, I'm game.

On my laptop, desktop and my wife's netbook, I run Norton Internet Security 2009 (3-license version), MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware, Spybot Search & Destroy with active tea timer and Ad-Aware SE with Ad-Watch running in the background. Each week after updating not only my AV and anti-malware programs as well as Windows criticals and security updates, I run a quick scan of each PC. Once a month I run a full scan. I have been virus free ever since I bought my first PC back in '95.

All it takes is a few minutes and a little common sense.
 

Raymond lee Leggs

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Ameatur porn, (You know what I mean!) , Music from dodgy free Mp3 sites that have adverts for "Dating sites" (one night stands), and homade teen girl porn on the borders of each page, Freeware sites that are actually spyware, or conflict with your hardware or do not work (dvdsoft's newest versions). Shopping sites with suspiciously cheap Audio equipment that looks similat to higher end Audio equipment @ entry level quality, you actually will get the equipment but spyware lurks on these sites.
 

Crosbycott

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If you have it, you can use the disk for your operating system to format your hard drive. Formatting will erase EVERYTHING from you drive! If you have not backed up recently you might have a problem. When backing up your files you may be backing up the virus as well and it would re-infest your system.
 

Brett DiMichele

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I got on the internet long before Al Gore invented it, I go to all those sites that you should NOT go to, and in my nearly two decades of PC use, it's ALWAYS been Windows and I don't have these issues.
 

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