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MSN Virus Warning!

action9000

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If you come across anything like this being sent to you while you're on MSN:

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hey , it's really your image ? http://msn.farvista.net/viewimage.php?=youremail@hotmail.com

PLEASE Do NOT click the link in your MSN window!  It is a virus!
(Note: clicking the link above in this post will not give you the virus - I modified its location to a nonexistant page.)


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Thanks, action9000, i'll remember that.


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Thanks, I hope you didn't find out the hard way...


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Thanks, I hope you didn't find out the hard way...
I kind of did but I was able to get the virus removed right away with no difficulty.


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I got that virus.......for about 5 seconds.  Once I clicked on it, AVG popped up telling me that I had just been infected and it automatically deleted the file.  I'm not afraid of viruses, spyware, or malware.  I'm mainly afraid of adware, since I have very little protection against it.  Still, if I'm infected with something especially nasty, I just have to spend 2 hours formatting the thing and restoring all of my files.  Such computer worries only make you live shorter.


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Hello:
 Sorry for the late reply, but thanks... I'll have that one noted just in case ;) . I remember sometime ago I wss almost infected by something similar, that's why I alwayd asks the contact for every file they wanted me to send and I tell always before I send a file or a link myself.