geek malware Q

[shaunbhoy]

I said pedant, not peasant

No point us slagging him off at this time of day. He is already on the "happy bus" back to his digs by now!

[Bagpuss]

AVG let me down a couple of months ago


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HOW SO?

[Platypus]

HOW SO?

I caught a virus from a website (drive by infection). Fscked my PC. So when I came to re-installing everything I omitted AVG and went with Avast. I don't like it as much but what the hey if it works. Of course you usually only know if AV has worked when it doesn't.

[rootsnall]

I caught a virus from a website (drive by infection). Fscked my PC. So when I came to re-installing everything I omitted AVG and went with Avast. I don't like it as much but what the hey if it works. Of course you usually only know if AV has worked when it doesn't.

Avast has served me well for quite a few years, until now

Ad-aware is currently churning through my files, nowt yet.

[Bagpuss]

dont mean to be funny but shouldnt you remove the link from your OP?

[rootsnall]

dont mean to be funny but shouldnt you remove the link from your OP?

Just to keep you happy ! It was so that you could ID the particular bug. I didn't click on the link.

[threaded]

Has anybody else been a victim of sending out the email below to their address list ( via hotmail account ), and then losing their address list. The freebie Avast virus s/w I'm running has done a good job for a few years but I guess may have missed the virus / malware. The problem looks fairly wide spread but I can't see a remedy or proper explanation via google. Another hotmail account using this same laptop looks fine. Is it possible they have hacked into hotmail itself rather than my account ? There is nothing in my Sent folder relating to the email and everything else on the laptop looks OK. I guess I should change my password as a bare minimum !?

********** don't click on the link !!!!!!!

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Your account has been hijacked. Change your password to something sensible. Two unrelated words separated by a number is best, i.e. Tom69Sheep

All your emails are lost.

Your email address list can be recovered. You have to contact Hotmail to do that though.

[basshead]

http://windowslivehelp.com/community/t/175648.aspx

[rootsnall]

Your account has been hijacked. Change your password to something sensible. Two unrelated words separated by a number is best, i.e. Tom69Sheep

All your emails are lost.

Your email address list can be recovered. You have to contact Hotmail to do that though.

I've had the same password since email was invented, so I've had a good run. Now changed.

I haven't lost my emails, that would of really stuffed me up, just the address list.

Any clever ways of downloading all your emails ( and more importantly their attachments ) ?

[rootsnall]

http://windowslivehelp.com/community/t/175648.aspx

I had looked through some of that this morning. There was nothing in my signature. It doesn't give a precise 'fix' as such but is the same issue. I've just removed 34 cookies via Ad-aware, hopefully that has sorted any hangover !? I thought using the Delete All option in the Internet Options of IE tidied up all the cookies but obviously not, it appears to have missed some.

Ta for the various replies.

Is it likely they have cracked my password from scratch, or have I entered it into a dodgy lookalike webpage they directed me to ?

Perhaps it's time to tighten up my banking passwords