[or-roots] Computer crash's

wm0g at comcast.net wm0g at comcast.net
Tue Feb 2 22:53:59 PST 2010


Sounds to me more like you were 'had' by a anti-malware virus. IE8 will not give you anything like you described. The anti-malware will and try to send you via a Trojan virus to a false program that will further harm your computer. I think I am fairly computer savvy and I was had by one of these last month. 

 Jack Ciaccia 
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" 
(When all else fails, play dead) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darlene Casteel" <darlene at thecasteels.net> 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 6:38:42 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Computer crash's 

 
I don't know anything about a Virus Soft program, but I have had computer hangups with IE8, and have tried unsuccessfully to uninstall it.  I'm now using Firefox. 

Darlene 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: glenkc7mbm at comcast.net 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:03 PM 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Computer crash's 

When I downloaded IE8 the other night It came with a Program called Virus soft from Microsoft's download site, the Virus Soft program told me all my programs on my computer were infected with a trojan virus and wanted me to download their Virus Soft program, which installed with automatic updates, but to active I had to pay $60.00, I could not open any of my programs or even get into the internet, It would not let me uninstall it or remove it, as I said I had to do a full restore of my computer to get my computer back and I still to not have everything back to normal. 
I sent an Email to microsoft and they will not even reply.   

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kith-n-Kin 
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Sent: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:37:18 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Computer crash's 




Glen 

I’ve had IE 8 on one of my computers for months. No problems yet. No question of 

virus checking programs (of course I already had one on the computer).  Maybe 

there’s some other problem?  

Pat In Tucson 

(73 degrees and holding, rain this evening ???) 







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[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of glenkc7mbm at comcast.net 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:02 PM 
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Computer crash's 

My Computer just crashed this morning, whatever you do, DO NOT upgrade to Internet Explorer 8, it has its own 
virus program, and locks up your computer until you download the program at  $60.00, I had to do a complete restore of my computer to git rid of it, it will not uninstall, or let you into any programs including the internet. 


Glen Jones Portland, Oregon 




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