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  1. mscheesecake mscheesecake is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2007 (2/7/2007 10:24pm)

    I have no arguments with any advice given out so far. I do however have one more thing to add from a story that happened to me about eight months ago if you all are amenable.

    Never open an attachment unless you were actually expecting it (even if it comes up clean in the virus scanner as the one I'm about to describe did....). I opened an attachment from my dad. Upon opening this, my computer crashed and I lost the use of my speakers and had numerous random memory errors.

    A few days later, a company I ordered prescriptions from online called me to ask what I had attached to the email I sent them because they don't open attachments unless they know what they are. (In the meantime, my dad had told me his computer is acting up and he wasn't sure why). I told the pharmacy that I never emailed them, so they shouldn't open it.

    As it turned out, somehow, someone got infected with a virus that just emailed itself to entire address books and it just spread indefinitely. Now the only reason I'm boring everybody with this is...a couple months after I had my credit card numbers stolen. I thought it was random or maybe another one of my exhusband's "games", but after reading about the keyloggers it got me to thinking we can't be too careful. Be safe everybody....
  2. ChuckSty ChuckSty is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2007 (2/7/2007 10:55pm) in reply to mscheesecake

    it would be beyond wild if your exhusband was mr.bigcheese
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