no, but i follow all standard practices to avoid infection, and this was
my first virus at home
had a few at work when someone opened an invoice, that wasn't really an
invoice, clicked on the attachment and the entire company was infected
in seconds...
norton was unable to remove it, so i loaded up microsoft security
essentials which deleted the infected backup .dll and automagically
downloaded a new one from the net for the system32 directory and the
backup to that.
*nice*
On 12/16/2013 6:29 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
Allen, do you have any evidence that gadgets were the way you got
infected?
This article:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/gadgets.aspx
seems to suggest that with proper and up-to-date anti-malware
software, gadgets are no more dangerous than other installable programs.
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Allen Elwood RR wrote:
Tech Alert *TURN YOUR GADGETS OFF* before you get hacked
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn261332
:shock:
hacker's found a way to get inside your gadgets and take control of
your computer
this explains how i got hacked last month - my computer was acting
odd and really slow - the hard drive was thrashing like crazy and i
knew something wasn't right so i walked to the wireless router and
pulled the power cord. did a full disk virus scan and had a couple of
really nasty trojans and 250+ spyware apps all active at the same time.
wonder WHY it was so slow! :lol:
they also got my password to my roadrunner email and started blasting
spam, i started getting mail delivery failures, put 2+2=5 together
and changed my password. after that i immediately got a spam - kinda
like a "nanner nanner we got you" thing.
gadgets off now. i miss them already. the clock gadget disappeared
and i started looking around to see what was up and found this alert
by Microsoft
you know, you'd a thunk maybe they'd let us know???
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