Should I be worried?

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Artreid

I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it got
there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were it is
waiting for me to enter a password.

Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got there
and make sure it gets totally removed.?
 
Artreid said:
I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it
got there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were
it is waiting for me to enter a password.

Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got
there and make sure it gets totally removed.?
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Kill the chickens, hens, roosters and turkeys if you want to stop any
"fowl" play.

Seriously, reinstall Windows if you want to be totally sure your
computer is clean.

Alias
 
Artreid said:
I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of
my online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas
how it got there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon
screen were it is waiting for me to enter a password.

Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is
got there and make sure it gets totally removed.?
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I suspect it's more likely that you accidentally "dragged" the address from
the address bar or bookmarks of Firefox on to your desktop thereby creating
a shortcut.

Check the shortcut properties and make sure it does actually direct to the
genuine login page and not to some sort of spoof or "phishing" log in page.

Personally I'd just delete it and move on.

Tim
 
Tim said:
Personally I'd just delete it and move on.

Tim
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I agree with Tim.

Have a good spyware detector, like MBAM or Spybot Search and Destroy
and update and run these program on a regular basis. Saga
 
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