Grits, I have had a Mac for six years and just recently, I got a virus on my IBook. It was a fake link for something, don't remember what, but I could not get rid of it. I downloaded some Norton anti-virus software, which promptly cured it.
I hope this was a one time thing.
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09-07-2008, 04:20 PM #1
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09-07-2008, 04:29 PM #2
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I use McAfee, Windows fire wall, AND run CCCleaner every few days and a few sneaky thing still find their way through. So far I've been able to deal with most of them when things start going wonky on the computer but it keeps me on my toes.
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09-07-2008, 06:27 PM #3
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Me too.
I had the EXACT same thing happen to me today. Yahoo account. Same title and message. And it deleted my entire address book. At first I thought I had clicked on some link I shouldn't have... And the interesting thing is this all happened while my account was shut down. I was online but did not have my email open. My dad (my personal computer genius
) said someone must have hacked into Yahoo. I will go ahead and change my password too. That'll be a transition, since I've had the same one for 7+ years.
I did a Housecall scan on my computer and it came up with only a few cookies, but nothing wacky. Dad has a pretty stringent firewall set up and does intense, frequent maintenance on the computers; his last maintenance session was just last week. Keep us posted on what Yahoo says happened. My brother also has a Yahoo account, but nothing weird happened to his.Last edited by liberty; 09-07-2008 at 06:42 PM.
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09-08-2008, 10:17 AM #4
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It just happend to my yahoo account this afternoon.
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09-08-2008, 10:21 AM #5
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Back up or at least copy your address book, just in case!
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09-08-2008, 11:19 AM #6
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Thank you Thank you Thank you for the heads up!!! I am a yahoo'r...nothing yet on mine but I did change my password to a nice strong one! and backed up my address book...
I never open unknown emails...maybe that helps
hope you all get your info back and nothing worse...I am a nobody; nobody is perfect, and therefore I am perfect.
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09-08-2008, 12:20 PM #7
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I just got an email from Yellow to my non-Yahoo email address with this message/link. I deleted it - is that enough?
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