A friend of mine had a virus infection that her nephew dealt with by re-installing Windows. The infection was present for a week or so, and her...
Thanks for the info. Three different scans all have come up clean. I see now that the addresses that are getting the spam from her account...
I am running Malwarebytes right now, remotely. There are no spams shown in the Outbox of Outlook, so it appears the spam did not come from her...
My wife tells me that some of her friends have received spam advertisement emails that show my wife's name in the "FROM" field. Her antivirus...
When you go to a site that has the LizaMoon malware and the first pop up appears, is it true that you are not yet infected at that time? And...
I received that same hotmail message 2 weeks ago. I ignored it.
OK thanks. I've had the UAC slider at max since I installed W7, even though people were telling there was no significant reason to do so.
So then this will not happen on a standard user account?
Thanks, those were interesting reads. But it seems that a large number of the advantages cited would be in reference to a standard user account...
Thanks, MrBrian. So according to the second paragraph, it seems that even Standard User accounts are somewhat susceptible to this way of being...
Thanks for the information, what you've said makes sense to me. What I would still like to find out is the specifics of what additional...
On a Windows 7 computer with only one user, is there any higher protection from malware infection to be gained by running as a standard user?...
I've set up 3 Win 7 machines where I demoted the admin account to standard user, have had no problems. Same thing on a Vista machine.
OK, thanks to all for the info.
Thanks for the replies. From poking around in Norton's rules, it does indeed seem to allow outbound for all applications. Does it have any way...
The NIS 2011 firewall never asks me for permission regarding outgoing communication, apparently because it is updated with info on what is safe or...
Thanks to all for the replies. I've just installed V4 from Comcast. And I am experiencing the same results as Pleonasm stated was to be...
OK thanks to all for the info. When I open Norton and click About, it says the version is 3.8.0.4.1 Is this a Comcast version number, or...
I've installed the Norton 360 product that Comcast offers. For the most part it is similar to Norton on another computer that I have, with the...
I just checked Hotmail Inbox and Deleted for that date, I did not receive it. I guess I'll just write it off as a Hotmail error. Thanks for...
I am not receiving notifications at my Hotmail account, even though the thread I am posting in shows me as subscribed. Not in Junk Mail either....
Thanks to all for the replies. This quote from the link in IBK's post seems to say it all: This detection looks at many different aspects of...
I downloaded a free version of the software shown below. After I downloaded it I sent it to Virustotal to check the file. It passed with all the...
I see it now. Thanks
OK thanks
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