Boy-oh-boy.....we were googling the new furnace we are getting this afternoon, and Rick clicked on what looked like a very legitimate link..and all of a sudden the computer locked up, saying the website wanted to run something...well we didn't want it to run anything, BUT it wouldn't let us get out of the link or close up or anything...finally I got it to let me hit the "x" in the top right corner..then just as it was closing it up something came up saying the computer may have been infected with a virus.... -- Piggy's Pad

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Date Posted: 7:24:13 pm, Sat, 12/01/07
Author: Kate
Subject: Boy-oh-boy.....we were googling the new furnace we are getting this afternoon, and Rick clicked on what looked like a very legitimate link..and all of a sudden the computer locked up, saying the website wanted to run something...well we didn't want it to run anything, BUT it wouldn't let us get out of the link or close up or anything...finally I got it to let me hit the "x" in the top right corner..then just as it was closing it up something came up saying the computer may have been infected with a virus....

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So I immediately ran my anti-virus software and sure enough it found a trojan horse something....I nearly died!! I am so careful about clicking on anything...I rarely even click on a link from someone I know in their e-mails because I'm afraid they might not know what or where they are sending me....I will open them from people I completely trust, but honestly my SIL loves to send me crap to open and jokes and stuff that have links and I never open them...I know she visits a lot of different sites and I doubt very much if she has a clue whether or not her computer may be infected with anything....So, anyway I ran my anti-virus software twice (once when it originally found the problem and said it was deleted and then again afterwards and the second scan came back clean) also ran my spyware and my adware programs twice.... (NT) -- Kate (again), 7:33:19 pm, Sat, 12/01/07
It just amazes/scares me how easily this happened to us today....I can't imagine anyone with kids who just don't pay attention or care...their computers have to be loaded with bugs!!! (NT) -- Kate (again and again!!), 7:36:13 pm, Sat, 12/01/07
How scary, I would have had a heart attack! But, luckily with this new Dell, I have a great anti virus program that scans everything coming in and going out. It even lets me know if something is the least bit suspicious and tell me why and lets me decide to delete or not. KNOCK ON WOOD, I haven't had any problems with this new one. (NT) -- Ramona, 7:16:04 am, Sun, 12/02/07
my computer does the same thing...but not when we clicked on a link that we googled.....it was too late when by the time we hit it,,, (NT) -- Kate, 8:20:15 am, Sun, 12/02/07
I would have totally freaked out myself and if it were a weekday, I'd have been on the phone to Gerry immediately. Right now, he has all of our anti-virus, spyware, etc. running twice a day, once at lunchtime and again during the middle of the night. And since I'm such a non-techie (except when it comes to phones), if I run into a problem when I'm on the computer, I call him. He was really upset a couple of weeks ago at work..........he picked up a "drive by" trojan at work and had a terrible time getting rid of it. I wish people would spend their time doing *good* things and not writing computer code to screw us all up!!! (NT) -- Sandy, 10:31:40 am, Sun, 12/02/07
you and me both Sandy...I just couldn't believe how what we thought was an innocent search on Google could end up with such trouble.....and with it happening the way it did, there was just no way (that I know of) to prevent it...???!!!! (NT) -- Kate, 7:51:55 pm, Sun, 12/02/07
I know Kate! WHen my g'daughter lived here I started getting way more spam but with pop up blocker and 2 anti virus programs, firewall etc. I haven't had your problem for a long long time. I remember when it was pretty common for a site to lock you in and it made me so mad when i couldn't close the page and then got pop ups too. My antivirus runs every night now. Good luck with the new furnace! Glad the old one lasted for you! (NT) -- Denise, 5:29:27 am, Sun, 12/02/07

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