computer virus

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Stacey @xstitcher (39006) • Petaluma, California 30 Sep 21

Long time no see, it seems like. Well, a little over a week ago today, my computer got a virus. I took it to a shop, and called once, and the lady I spoke to said that the guy (it's an independent business) was...

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Attacked by a ransomware

rsa101 @rsa101 (40952) • Philippines 25 Sep 19

One of my officemates was attacked by these ransomware virus called nesa and literally locked all his files and encrypted it. He was not able to restore everything in his computer and he was asked to pay him some money to...

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My Fake Penis.

The Horse @TheHorse (238275) • Walnut Creek, California 12 Apr 19

After work today, I was cruising through my SPAM folder, doing the delete thing (there were only five, happily), but when I read the headline "My Fake Penis," I had to stop and click on the email. Apparently, the author of the...

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Got the Flu From My Laptop

L. Jenkinson @MarymargII (12422) • Toronto, Ontario 10 Feb 17

This post is a warning to all- you could be in danger of picking up a virus from your computer, like I did. It had once of those scams invade my laptop the other day but I did get out of it by closing down my computer. Then my...

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Computer Virus?

minisam @miniam (9151) • Bern, Switzerland 9 Dec 16

Was looking to contact a former someone l knew online some time ago(not too long ago). After looking for weeks,l managed to find him through his new website.(worst idea from me in a very long time). When l went to the site,a popup...

popup virus

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Troubled Start of September

Anna @LadyDuck (502189) • Italy 2 Sep 16

If you have not seen me around yesterday, it's because I had a difficult start of the month. When I and opened a web page, the Avast antivirus blocked that page, warning about a virus, that it fixed. I opened a new tab, but I...

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wild boars

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pricejs.net Malware virus in browsers!!

Rajesh Podder @14393510 (13) 7 Aug 16

I have noticed some urls like f.pricejs.net/info are running in my browsers ( chrome , IE or firefox ).. When I googled about it, I was shocked its malware virus.. I don't know how to remove these stuffs from browsers. I didn't...

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Alarming behaviour of a Facebook app

Gina @Gina145 (3949) • Johannesburg, South Africa 10 May 16

Yesterday I mentioned some crazy messages I got while I was doing one of those silly quizzes doing the rounds on Facebook. As I ignored those messages I didn't take them too seriously, but the comments I received on that post have...

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malware

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Scams - What a load of rubbish!

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 13 Apr 16

Some random Indian sounding dude called my landline saying he is from WINDOWS, which private number he got from the satellite, which he says shows that our internet connection is faulty and the government have traced as having a...

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Computer Virus Doesn't Inspire Us

Steve West @zebra2222 (5268) • United States 1 Nov 15

A computer virus doesn't inspire us. It makes us mad. It takes time to fix. The worst part is if you have to call a technician to help fix the problem. That's when your blood pressure is likely to rise. Ah, I like my Google...

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Infected by Virus

wiLLmaH @wiLLmaH (8801) • Singapore, Singapore 13 Oct 15

What you will do if you received an email from one of your biggest client with an email subject “New Project” with an attached filename “Payment Scheme”. Our account department open the email and downloaded the attached file....

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Computer Health

wiLLmaH @wiLLmaH (8801) • Singapore, Singapore 19 Sep 15

Who are taking surveys that they knew that there might have been tracking cookies in it? Now my question is, do I need to worry about this if I am using an Apple product? Because if tracking cookies can penetrate also a Mac I...

computer virus

tracking cookies

online surveys

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Why there is no silver bullet for computer virus?

ketanm @ketanm (68) • India 13 Mar 13

I saw today that anti-virus program on my laptop is consuming so many resources and sometimes it slows down the laptop and hamper my productivity. Also as I read, the number of new viruses keep on increasing and now-a-days even...

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Android Virus? Do Android gadgets could have android virus?

kirknet12 @kirknet12 (17) • Philippines 30 Nov 12

PC virus does harm to our pc computers and gadgets. It destroys our files that are valuable to us ( pictures, videos, music, etc. ). I am just wondering since Android smartphones, tablets, and gadgets are now popular in the...

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Got Rid Of A Virus And Now FireFox Doesn't Work

Deborah L. Alten @gtargirl (5376) • United States 18 Aug 12

Anyone have any suggestions why my browser, FireFox won't load anymore? I had a few trojan horses viruses which I managed after a couple of days to vamp out. Then I rebooted but FireFox won't load anymore. Any computer wizards out...

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what is cashgopher?

missjahn @missjahn (4572) • Philippines 27 Jul 12

would you please tell me what is cashgopher? it serves as a treat to my computer. the microsoft essential is cleaning now. why it is treated like this? is cashgopher a virus? well, do not know why it was recommended to delete it...

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Computer problems: A couple of obnoxious brats!

sherrybelle @sherrybelle (707) • United States 10 Jul 12

Yesterday was not a good day for my netbook. As soon as I would log in to use my computer I found I only had a minute or two before it would automatically restart. I was able to keep my computer on long enough to learn that...

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HELP ! my computer has been infected by virus !!

syedmuhd82 @syedmuhd82 (30) • Malaysia 17 Nov 11

Help, all my folder suddenly goes shortcut... Anyone know to kill the virus? thanks for advance.

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Online Banking Pages But!

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 14 Oct 11

They are NOT! At least, legitimately that is. Cunning cyber-criminals are designing malicious bugs that, once sneaked into a PC via the internet, masquerade as online banking pages. Experts say the pages are almost...

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I missed you! And you and you and you and you....

Amber @AmbiePam (120574) • United States 26 Aug 11

Late last week my computer got a virus and I was no longer able to get online, let alone on mylot. And as the days progressed I started to get really down. I got a migraine that lasted three days, and usually when I have a lull...

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