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sharon b 04-13-2010 02:24 PM
Originally Posted by brushandthimble
I had these pop up's that would not go away saying they were Vista security that I had a serious virus that my computer was at risk, that I had spyware and a worm. I could not open email, asked for permission to open. I never gave permission and kept clicking the x to close the vista security message.
I went to all programs, there is no vista, it wanted me to purchase a security program. My security program is Kaspersky.
I am afraid it may be hiding in the background; but there is nothing to indicate it.
Do I just wait and see?
Why am I spending $ for a security program and end up with a virus anyway?
Have you tried to manually run your virus protection and see if it picks it up ?

brushandthimble 04-13-2010 02:32 PM
Yes, it said I have 1 virus, the pop up said 29.
All is well today....

sharon b 04-13-2010 02:38 PM
Well just keep running the virus protection manually til it shows you don't have any :thumbup:

sewcrafty 04-14-2010 03:00 AM
Originally Posted by brushandthimble
Yes, it said I have 1 virus, the pop up said 29.
All is well today....
The program that hit me told me I had over a hundred virus'! When you get rid of the one, there aren't any others.

tmg 04-14-2010 03:09 AM
My husband did that same thing and we had to take it in and let the professionals clean it out.

Shadow Dancer 04-14-2010 06:16 AM
And this is the reason why I got rid of Windows as an operating system and installed Linux on my computer. And the best part is.... Linux is FREE!!

Rhonda 04-14-2010 07:16 AM
Originally Posted by Shadow Dancer
And this is the reason why I got rid of Windows as an operating system and installed Linux on my computer. And the best part is.... Linux is FREE!!
I'm just not much of a techie person. I do know how to download stuff and install and uninstall but I wouldn't have a clue how to get out of windows and go to Linux. I do want to do whatever I need to to not have this happen again! But I did this to myself. I thought I could close it out and get rid of it so I clicked on it and I never should have done that!!

sharon b 04-14-2010 07:17 AM
My son got me onto Mozilla Firefox :wink: but he did it for me :lol:


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