Help naming a virus

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Recently I got a virus that basicall renders my button useless. Instead of deleting mail when I push delete it sends the mail again. Things of that nature are acuring quite often and was wondering if anyone could help me name this virus or possibly give me the web page of a site that might be helpful in naming it, thank you very much.
 
Go to Google and type Housecall . This is a great free program which will
scan your hardrive and delete the virus. Jym



psykopenguine said:
Recently I got a virus that basicall renders my button useless. Instead
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of deleting mail when I push delete it sends the mail again. Things of that
nature are acuring quite often and was wondering if anyone could help me
name this virus or possibly give me the web page of a site that might be
helpful in naming it, thank you very much.
 
Try the free online scan from the following link to take care of your
immediate problem. After that install an AV program to keep from having this
problem in the future.
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp

JAX

psykopenguine said:
Recently I got a virus that basicall renders my button useless. Instead
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of deleting mail when I push delete it sends the mail again. Things of that
nature are acuring quite often and was wondering if anyone could help me
name this virus or possibly give me the web page of a site that might be
helpful in naming it, thank you very much.
 
Recently I got a virus that basicall renders my button useless. Instead of deleting mail when I push delete it sends the mail again. Things of that nature are acuring quite often and was wondering if anyone could help me name this virus or possibly give me the web page of a site that might be helpful in naming it, thank you very much.
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Here are two online virus scans:
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/vc_about.asp
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

This is malware (aka crapware); it may not be seen as a virus however.

In addition to looking for a virus, check for, and remove, spyware.
Get HijackThis <http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155> and
Spybot S&D <http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download>,
both of which are free and very trusted crapware detectors and
removers.
1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"),
then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all
recommended deletions.
2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately.
Save the Log.
3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the
following forums (and post it here):
<http://forums.tomcoyote.org/>
<http://63.247.79.145/~coyote/forums/index.php?act=idx>
<http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php?board=17>
<http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?s=8a1e9d7c1978cff54ca06a3210c7c1b0&showforum=32>
<http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?s=68ddc23721b063d5411ece09e5ac93f9&showforum=11>
(The latter may or may not respond for you as I have read reports that
the SWI site is currently under DoS attack). All of these forums
appear to be rather busy right now, so be patient.

Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit
safer.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
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