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Old 04-18-2009, 06:30 PM   #1
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Don't go to UTube.com

Last night I wanted to see the Dominos Pizza Video and heard it was on YouTube so I mistakenly typed UTube.com and whammy I got hit with several spyware viruses and it took like 6 hours to clean my PC. I had pop-ups coming every 2 minutes.

Why do these stupid sites exist and why can't the Govt' shut them down - I know they are usually run from foreign countries.

Just an FYI.

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Old 04-18-2009, 08:17 PM   #2
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fact of life.

To combat, use:

MS Windows One care Live - http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?s_cid=sah

Trend Micro's Housecall - http://prerelease.trendmicro-europe.com/housecall/ui/html/default/stage1i2.xml?locale=enus&impl=applet/html/java

Trend Micro's HiJack this - http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis

Malwarebytes - www.malwarebytes.org

All FREE!

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Old 04-19-2009, 05:27 AM   #3
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Interesting, thanks Lil Bastard. I didn't know about those tools.

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Old 04-21-2009, 11:50 AM   #4
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A Dell support tech recently installed the malwarebytes on my PC while investigating another problem. It found 6 key loggers my other systems had missed.

Google MajorGeeks for all sorts of free stuff to D/L.

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