Posted by Larry Hoover on August 1, 2008, at 20:02:34
In reply to Re: lost everything » Dinah, posted by Larry Hoover on August 1, 2008, at 19:41:10
> I went to bed, and my son decided to check on some "cheats" for some Nintendo games. A pop-up came up that asked him to accept or deny some question, and that's all it took for the virus to bypass the firewall and anti-virus softare.....he'd unwittingly accepted something that was really a lie.
BTW, the thing to do with one of these malicious pop-ups is to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Windows Task Manager, and kill the window. Or, just restart.....without accepting or denying whatever the pop-up asks you to do. Before you accept/deny, nothing has happened. Afterwards, it's too late.
Lar
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