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Did I just get a virus or was that a glitch?

Something weird just happened to my computer that I have never seen before. I clicked on something in my email ( NOT unknown recipient or anything like that) and then tabs titled “blank” or something similar, just started openeing by themselves, one after another after another. Like 40 or more and still going. So I tried to close them out but nothing was responding. I didn’t know what to do because they were opening and multipling so fast. I just reached over and shut it down. Has this happened to anybody or sound familiar? What the crap just happened?

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Answer #1

#1. when you are trying to shut down a flurry of pop-ups USE THE HOT KEY combo W. I guarentee you can shut those suckers down. (Hold the key down and tap the key.) #2 Get “Spybot, Search and Destroy” and “Ad-Aware SE”. Both are free and both are VERY good at getting rid of spyware. #3 Make sure that you are running a firewall #4 Keep your anti-virus definitions up to date

Hope this helps. Good Luck!!

Answer #2

viruss this has happend to my computer. Run a virus scanner to find it. if you have one . then shut down your computer. It helped me

Answer #3

okay it definately has to do with this site because it just happened again. when I open one of the funadvice responses. This tiome I used windows task manager and was able to shut them down but it took a long time. Whats going on? I have ‘okay’ virus protection. so whats happening?

Answer #4

Ok, I just sent you a fun mail as well.

  1. we don’t install anything on a computer when you use our site - so, it must have been from another site
  2. are you running IE or FireFox? FF is FAR more secure than Internet Explorer.
  3. Mac or Windows?

Is activex disabled on your PC, if you’re not on a mac? That will protect you from a lot of viruses, if you disable ActiveX.

Last, run spybot & see if that picks up anything on your box, and it’ll help remove it, etc. Spybot is also free.

Answer #5

that would be a killer virus.

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