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Bad new virus out there ...
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Actually it's called a "Rogue" or "Misleading" computer virus. And I caught it about 3 days ago right here on good ole' Big Church. So I'm going to tell you all about it cause I don't want you to get hooked up with it in any way!! The biggest thing to know about it is it's a fake and a scam to get you to give your personal information and credit card numbers. It isn't actually a security program at all. So be aware of this. It came to me as "CYBER SECURITY" and "CYBER PROTECTION CENTER". It has other names dealing with security and anti-virus issues. I already have Norton 360 has my anti-virus agent - so I could not figure why this thing was coming up - I even turned on my anti-virus to scan and it didn't pick this one up because it is so new. It's vicious. It starts out with pop-ups saying you have a bunch of threats on your computer - trojans and such - it will be a high number like 30 or 40 of them - it freaks you out. If you hit the little x in the upper corner to close it down - that action actually starts the downloading of it rather than closing it out - a trick - a deception. THIS IS IMPORTANT - IF YOU GET A POP UP THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE - TO GET OUT OF IT HIT THE ALT BUTTON AND THE F4 BUTTON - TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME. IT DELETES THE POP UP WITHOUT IT DOING ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER - I'VE TRIED IT AND IT WORKS (even with the good pop-ups). The Norton 360 guy told us about this! It practically took over my computer - I tried to get into Big Church and it wouldn't let me in - it said it was an unsafe site. The same thing happened with my email sights - it wouldn't let me print out a coupon from Kohl's - then it finally told me Internet Explorer was an unsafe sight - and so on and so on and so on. So I got on my lap tap and looked up Norton 360 - found out about this virus and also got a phone number to call their help desk. They were very helpful - but it did cost me $99 to get the virus removed and they did it remotely while on the phone and I can't get it back. The reason it wasn't covered by Norton 360 is because it is very new and more vicious than the previous version of it. It's a very frustrating virus - I hope you don't get it - please remember to do the ALT & F4 button thing with any pop-ups that don't look right to you. Blessings to all!! How can we NOT praise Him - Marilyn |
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11/3/2009 9:11 am |
Thanks for the heads up. 
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11/3/2009 11:15 am |
Thanks for the info. Have a virus-free day! Salvation is of the LORD
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11/3/2009 2:22 pm |
Your welcome Foraseason and Jeremiah!! Blessings!! How can we NOT praise Him - Marilyn
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11/3/2009 3:19 pm |
spirit, there was no way you could have gotten back into bigchurch and run things normally on your pc without doing anything about this so-called virus?
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11/3/2009 3:22 pm |
well i had something like this before happen a few times a year but it came and went. I didn't even think i had to remove it because my pc ran normally as it always would. If you exited it then I don't think you had to call Norton. It didn't really do something again so it's really sinister that you even had to pay to get rid of it.
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11/3/2009 5:52 pm |
Similar thing happened to me few days ago. I believed it. But at the time I wanted to downloan the program, Norton warned me so I stopped and hopefully my Norton got rid of it. Thanks for the warning. God bless.
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