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I just picked up a Trojan somewhere. Window's Defender removed it. Now I'm
wondering what I did wrong. A week or so ago, I got a pop-up claiming that I
had no virus protection and saying that "they" were going to do a scan. I DO
have virus protection (McAfee), so I knew this wasn't legit. I had a hard
time shutting it down, but I did. I did three scans in Safe mode (McAfee,
Defender and Super AntiSpyware Free) and found nothing. I am wondering if
this Trojan came from that and just wasn't detected until now. If not, could
it have come from an Email attachment? My friends are always sending me
forwarded things which I enjoy. I do have email scanning enabled, and only
open ones that say "No unsafe attachments detected". Is it okay to open
these forwarded items, or should I not? I have Window's Vista Home Premium.
Thank you for your time.
wondering what I did wrong. A week or so ago, I got a pop-up claiming that I
had no virus protection and saying that "they" were going to do a scan. I DO
have virus protection (McAfee), so I knew this wasn't legit. I had a hard
time shutting it down, but I did. I did three scans in Safe mode (McAfee,
Defender and Super AntiSpyware Free) and found nothing. I am wondering if
this Trojan came from that and just wasn't detected until now. If not, could
it have come from an Email attachment? My friends are always sending me
forwarded things which I enjoy. I do have email scanning enabled, and only
open ones that say "No unsafe attachments detected". Is it okay to open
these forwarded items, or should I not? I have Window's Vista Home Premium.
Thank you for your time.