On 19/06/2013 19:26, Charlie Cunningham wrote:
Thanks for the info. I know that I did receive the "Jim Koshmider" e-mail
just this morning and I did click on it to see what it was and got no
warning. Wish I had seen your post first!! Any tips/pointers on how to check
my machine for the infection, and how to remove it?
If you have a reasonable virus protection, it will have blocked it if
you did click on it. There are lots of AV solutions on the market,
some free and some paid-for. Opinions vary widely, but I reckon the
free ones are as good as the paid-for: I use Avast Free (you have to be
persistent to find that on their website, because they try to sell you
the paid version).
AVG Free is also generally well rated. You can pay $100 and more for
AV, and not fare any better than with the free ones.
If you think you have an infection on your computer, then the generally
favoured way of checking is to run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Google it
(I don't put links in e-mails - guess why!). You may find that it wants
to install, then download more, then update that. It's a bit of a faff
sometimes, but when it's all done it will check your machine and tell
you what problem (if any) you have.
Yahoo's mail server was hacked a couple of weeks ago - I've had spam or
virus e-mails from most people I know who have a Yahoo e-mail address.
I don't know if Yahoo are acknowledging the problem yet.
I spent some of last week clearing out the computers of a couple of
ladies in our congregation, and setting them up with decent AV (Avast,
needless to say). The friends whose accounts were used to infect them
were not to blame in any way - their address books were copied by the
hackers and used to send the nasties.
It's all part of the fun!
Keith
G3OIT
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