Malware, Adware and Spyware

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Originally Posted by aaronbr28040

I dont remember what site or forums I read it on but just the other day I read where some guy was having to register with his state as a sex offender due to child porn. He swears that he never went to those sites but it was a popup program that continually opened windows while he was browsing that sent him to those sites........It would really suck to have been falsely accused of something such as this. Remember you are responsible for the content that is on your computer.
-Aaron

If he could prove he had a virus he probably could beat that rap. Someone infected our work computers with a virus a couple of weeks ago, and I was the first one to notice something was wrong because I'm very aware of oddities involving my computer (computer security is what my computer Guru does for a living). Well, when our computer department finally came to the conclusion that something had indeed slipped past their firewall and virus scanner (and weren't they just eating crow...), they ran the necessary programs to clean my computer up and found lots of porn ads and what not. I was pretty embarrassed and made some comment about them now knowing how I spent my lunchtime, but they quickly reassured me that it was typical with this virus (and later I read about the virus on the Net and they were right).

Thanks Texan and Jake for the tips on "shoot the messenger" and reformatting. I'm also going to try to run some of my scanners in safe mode in case there are "problems" that initiate themselves on start-up. I use the Net a lot, but I rarely download things or register for things, so I'm a bit miffed by all of this.

Heidi

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yes, I know I actually use words like miffed