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Hi all,
Strange but simple problem here. Yesterday I recieved a suspicious e-mail telling me NOT to open any e-mails about the World Trade Centre as they may contain a virus. I was suspicious about this e-mail as it was strangely written and had a personal note in to someone's father!? It then asked you to send it on to 25 other people by midnight tonight (which I didn't do), but that made me think of those stupid chain letters. Since I've opened the e-mail the computer has attempted a couple of times to dial up to something (I'm on AOL Broadband), but I have managed to continually hang up the phone or even turn the power off the PC to stop this. I then recieved an e-mail from the person this morning who said they did not send the e-mail, it was a hoax from someone using their e-mail address. I'm suspicious about whether there was a virus in the previous e-mail and whether there is some sort of dialer I can delete. AVG runs daily at 9PM every night and found no viruses either.
Help or experience with the problem muchly appreciated,
Forest Fan
Strange but simple problem here. Yesterday I recieved a suspicious e-mail telling me NOT to open any e-mails about the World Trade Centre as they may contain a virus. I was suspicious about this e-mail as it was strangely written and had a personal note in to someone's father!? It then asked you to send it on to 25 other people by midnight tonight (which I didn't do), but that made me think of those stupid chain letters. Since I've opened the e-mail the computer has attempted a couple of times to dial up to something (I'm on AOL Broadband), but I have managed to continually hang up the phone or even turn the power off the PC to stop this. I then recieved an e-mail from the person this morning who said they did not send the e-mail, it was a hoax from someone using their e-mail address. I'm suspicious about whether there was a virus in the previous e-mail and whether there is some sort of dialer I can delete. AVG runs daily at 9PM every night and found no viruses either.
Help or experience with the problem muchly appreciated,
Forest Fan
Afternoon wrote:
> Did the email contain any type of attachment or link that you may have
> clicked on at all?
No, but it was sent to a lot of people and like I said had a weird message in it.
> Did the email contain any type of attachment or link that you may have
> clicked on at all?
No, but it was sent to a lot of people and like I said had a weird message in it.
Did the email contain any type of attachment or link that you may have clicked on at all?
Sounds like infamous dialer software. Ad-Aware might handle this.
Forest Fan wrote:
> Am doing so now - thanks a lot.
No problem :^)
Did it work?
> Am doing so now - thanks a lot.
No problem :^)
Did it work?
Am doing so now - thanks a lot.
Download Bug Doctor from google. Get a free virus scan to find any errors. I would just ignore the e-mails.
Hi all,
Strange but simple problem here. Yesterday I recieved a suspicious e-mail telling me NOT to open any e-mails about the World Trade Centre as they may contain a virus. I was suspicious about this e-mail as it was strangely written and had a personal note in to someone's father!? It then asked you to send it on to 25 other people by midnight tonight (which I didn't do), but that made me think of those stupid chain letters. Since I've opened the e-mail the computer has attempted a couple of times to dial up to something (I'm on AOL Broadband), but I have managed to continually hang up the phone or even turn the power off the PC to stop this. I then recieved an e-mail from the person this morning who said they did not send the e-mail, it was a hoax from someone using their e-mail address. I'm suspicious about whether there was a virus in the previous e-mail and whether there is some sort of dialer I can delete. AVG runs daily at 9PM every night and found no viruses either.
Help or experience with the problem muchly appreciated,
Forest Fan
Strange but simple problem here. Yesterday I recieved a suspicious e-mail telling me NOT to open any e-mails about the World Trade Centre as they may contain a virus. I was suspicious about this e-mail as it was strangely written and had a personal note in to someone's father!? It then asked you to send it on to 25 other people by midnight tonight (which I didn't do), but that made me think of those stupid chain letters. Since I've opened the e-mail the computer has attempted a couple of times to dial up to something (I'm on AOL Broadband), but I have managed to continually hang up the phone or even turn the power off the PC to stop this. I then recieved an e-mail from the person this morning who said they did not send the e-mail, it was a hoax from someone using their e-mail address. I'm suspicious about whether there was a virus in the previous e-mail and whether there is some sort of dialer I can delete. AVG runs daily at 9PM every night and found no viruses either.
Help or experience with the problem muchly appreciated,
Forest Fan