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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: Al W on January 16, 2013, 09:17:16 am

Title: Scam Notice with todays pattern.
Post by: Al W on January 16, 2013, 09:17:16 am

Good Morning Folks,

Just a quick note to express my appreciation to Steve Good for the advice concerning the DOJ ransom scam. 

THANK YOU for taking the time to let the forum know about this scam, and there is NO NEED to apologize for putting this type of information on a post about a new pattern.

My opinion.

Al W

Title: Re: Scam Notice with todays pattern.
Post by: troy_curtis on January 18, 2013, 01:40:48 am

DOJ scam? Missed something somewhere. Ok, I read it on the main page. I offer good computer advice. I use a free product called Avast. This software can be gotten at avast.com. It is a free home version and it works very very well. When I was a school tech teacher and the school IT I was at a conference where the president of a major software protection agency gave a lesson on avast. One thing that separates it from most other software is it starts scanning your computer on start up and scans every H-Key in the process. If you do get a virus it will detect it at that point and disable it before it can start working. Steve's advice is good though. Dont try to pay the ransom, just scan for the virus and have it removed.