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Old 11-16-2012, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by chachacha View Post
be careful of installing updates to adobe flash player...i installed one the other night and must have had malware...i did not sign into any of my pages so this morning i was able to uninstall the last update and now my computer is fine again...thought i would have to buy another one...was told that if you transfer data from current computer to new computer, would probably transfer all viruses as well! that is scary!
I think you are right. That happened to me as well. An update popped up, not like the usual one that sits in the tray and waits for me to click it. It was as though it wanted me to install the program rather than update it. I was having to go through hoops to do it and decided to abort it because it was suspicious.