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Old 06-25-2012, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 View Post
We got hit with a particularly nasty computer virus last Monday. It poses as an anti-virus service and if you click on it after it asks if you want to search for viruses on your computer, it plants one. Personal Antivirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very ironic. We had a lot of guests over the past 10 days so we are not sure when and how this virus got on.
These types of viruses often are contracted from visiting a website. However, these sites are often very "normal" sites. These also usually pop up immediately upon visiting the infected site.
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