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help please, trojans and worms is it a scam

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nuttybongo

nuttybongo Report 29 Aug 2009 16:29

hi there,
think i may have fell for it, yesterday a page came up teling me i had at least 11 trojans and several worms, said i had to quarnantine them, thinking it was one of my anti virus went ahead, only to come to a page asking for money, didn't do it. Then couldn't delete it from my bar at the bottom ran one of my avast and spybot and they only came up with one trojan and got rid of it. Had to back date computer to get rid of icon on bar. Was this just a scam to try and get me to buy the product or perhaps try and put a virus on my puter,worried a bit. thanks folks.

Researching:
Wood, Westnedge(spelling variants) padley, parkin, coulthard, (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, ) Jenkinson,Pashley, Moss (America) Meechan, Meehan, Mofatt, (Scotland and Ireland)

MrDaff

MrDaff Report 29 Aug 2009 16:33

Yes, it probably was... I fell for one, too, and it took me ages to get rid of them all.... one of mine looked as though it was an official Windows 32 download!! Another was similar to the one you had... I really do wish I could get my hands on the nasty little so and so's who concoct these things! Grrrrr!

Love

Daff xxxxx

nuttybongo

nuttybongo Report 29 Aug 2009 16:40

thanks for that. Worried me as it kept coming up in different parts of the computer telling me that windows this and photoshop etc had a worm that was reading my personnel passwords and data. Panicked a bit on that one. Thanks again. I hate these things. Thanks for the comfort

Researching:
Wood, Westnedge(spelling variants) padley, parkin, coulthard, (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, ) Jenkinson,Pashley, Moss (America) Meechan, Meehan, Mofatt, (Scotland and Ireland)