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Wed, Jun 23 2010, 10:59PM
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Whilst browsing on this forum at 2254 -  not logged in my antivirus encountered a Trojan virus.  Don't know if it is relevant to this site but just a warning to the moderators if they can sweep for it on their site.

Luckily mine was quaranteed.

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Wed, Jun 23 2010, 11:02PM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

Almost entirely certainly not site-related...

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Wed, Jun 23 2010, 11:05PM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

Great, I wasn't sure if it was from here and it is better to warn other users in case they are browsing with it switched off.

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Wed, Jun 23 2010, 11:06PM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

More likely to be something you've downloaded from elsewhere...

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Wed, Jun 23 2010, 11:09PM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

possibly, I am doing a full virus scan of my system.

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Thu, Jun 24 2010, 12:03AM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

I can help if you get stuck shado

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Mon, Jul 5 2010, 12:38PM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning

Thanks aliEnRIk, luckily the Virgin version which I think is Kaspersky did its job and nothing else was detected.  Just goes to show how important Firewall and other associated Internet security programms are?


If we were to speculate on viruses then I wonder if some are created by the very companies who provide protection against them?  It would make sense from a business point of view...... hmm!

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Tue, Jul 6 2010, 12:19AM
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Re: Trojan Virus Warning
shado:



If we were to speculate on viruses then I wonder if some are created by the very companies who provide protection against them?  It would make sense from a business point of view...... hmm!

 

I certainly wouldnt put it past them. Most markets are corrupt in some way or other

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