Frank Cazabon wrote on 2010-08-10: > > oh (expletive deleted)! > > I don't think I made a recovery CD, but I'll check as I may have done > one ages ago. If not, should I just go straight to reformatting and > starting over from scratch? > > How come all these virus scans never picked up any infection? I am > concerned about all the other PCs on my network now. Should I run > combofix on those too? What about my backups, how can I be sure they > are not infected? > > Would you believe in 20 years of computing, this is the first time > I've ever had a virus? > > Frank. >
Frank, Yes. They have decided to attack the advert farms since they have been less secure than the sites you log into. AdBlock is a nice plug in. Need to use a proxy type service for IE. http://www.privoxy.org/ is one such example. As for your network systems and backups? Better safe than sorry is my thoughts. Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/000d01cb38a7$1243d3c0$36cb7b...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
