• From: A black hole in deep space
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Topic: Virus

I recieved an email from someone I know to be a friend with a link so I follwed the link and all hell broke loose my anti virus program (Avast free) lit up like a christmas tree and nabbed the varmint I dont know how this was pullled off because I know the person who's name the email was supposed to be from and would never do anything like this so someone had to have hacked into one of the sites and obtained the email address of both the sender and myself and there are only two sites that we share in common and Chordie is one and the other is Facebook. This is not the first time nor will it be the last so a word of warning be careful which link you follow in an emai even if its from someone you trust.

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Re: Virus

Thanks for the heads up russell,thats why I think Iam going too take my facebook thing down.

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Re: Virus

I've had it happen to me. People in my e-mail contacts send me a reply saying they got an e-mail and they know it wasn't something I would send. Just a couple days a go I got one from my wife. Her Facebook was hacked somehow . I think Facebook has lots of leaks within their apps.

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
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Re: Virus

There are two more possibilities I will do some checking and contact the support centers and mention it along with facebook,Chordie to my knowledge dose not give out email addresses I know you can email someone from Chordie but  the other persons email address is not displayed Which narrows it down.

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Re: Virus

THis has happened to me wayyy befor FB.  It has nothing to do with FB.  They (the sorce of the virus)  have a program that will find stuff from websites you have even just visited or a e-mail you have sent and they fowrwarded or anything you have bought online  ect.   

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  • From: The Land Of Song
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Re: Virus

there is someone or something that hacks into your address book then sends the virus to all your contacts, it happened to me recently, it took me ages to get rid of the little bugger. lesson?....dont open links

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
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Re: Virus

Phill its to bad there slimey people who have nothing better to do then sit on there butts and make life miserable by excreeting there "expertiese" and creating viruses to see how much damage they can inflict it would be justice if there was a anti virus program that could send one back to the source that completly wipes out the hard drive and disables the owners pc forever.

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  • From: Inland Waterways of England
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Re: Virus

I think that it's a False Positive on the part of Avast. They have created a lot of problems for people and were a little slow in sorting it. However they have now brought out a manual update which fixes their problem and all is now well.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=104142.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSES … c=104163.0
gives the details. Hope this helps

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Re: Virus

i second that one russ and add that as it burns the hard drive it sends a 50,000 volt surge up his/her rectum.

i've had no problems with avast, my problem came before i installed

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
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Re: Virus

Im a little in the dark when it comes to tecky talk but I have been using avast for several years and have never had any virus disable my pc I also installed it on my new laptop.

Just Tel wrote:

I think that it's a False Positive on the part of Avast. They have created a lot of problems for people and were a little slow in sorting it. However they have now brought out a manual update which fixes their problem and all is now well.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=104142.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSES … c=104163.0
gives the details. Hope this helps

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
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Re: Virus

Ouch!!! lol that would really hurt.

Phill Williams wrote:

i second that one russ and add that as it burns the hard drive it sends a 50,000 volt surge up his/her rectum.

i've had no problems with avast, my problem came before i installed

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  • From: Inland Waterways of England
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Re: Virus

Russell_Harding wrote:

Im a little in the dark when it comes to tecky talk but I have been using avast for several years and have never had any virus disable my pc I also installed it on my new laptop.

Just Tel wrote:

I think that it's a False Positive on the part of Avast. They have created a lot of problems for people and were a little slow in sorting it. However they have now brought out a manual update which fixes their problem and all is now well.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=104142.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSES … c=104163.0
gives the details. Hope this helps

It didn't disable my PC but it did throw up several files as being infected by a virus. It was only after I had moved these files to the virus vault did I find out that Avast had experience problems today and after installing the update had to move everything back from the virus vault. A lot of unnecessary messing about.
My comment was simply to warn others of today's problems from Avast

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Re: Virus

Now if the term "nabbed the varmint" isn't techy talk, I don't know wat is.

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
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Re: Virus

I see your point,but its better to be safe then sorry and thanks for the info and links smile

Just Tel wrote:
Russell_Harding wrote:

Im a little in the dark when it comes to tecky talk but I have been using avast for several years and have never had any virus disable my pc I also installed it on my new laptop.

Just Tel wrote:

I think that it's a False Positive on the part of Avast. They have created a lot of problems for people and were a little slow in sorting it. However they have now brought out a manual update which fixes their problem and all is now well.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=104142.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSES … c=104163.0
gives the details. Hope this helps

It didn't disable my PC but it did throw up several files as being infected by a virus. It was only after I had moved these files to the virus vault did I find out that Avast had experience problems today and after installing the update had to move everything back from the virus vault. A lot of unnecessary messing about.
My comment was simply to warn others of today's problems from Avast

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