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HEADS UP ! Trojan Alert

by Mac McMullen May 6, 2007 8:48AM PDT

IF, if, a screen comes up, looking like a Windows Screen, and tells you that your copy of Windows has been activated by someone else, and offers you a simple step by step way to reactivate your copy.......run away....run away.....run away....and run a virus scan.

Take a look: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/2840

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Is it a pop up?
by duckman May 6, 2007 9:02AM PDT

or do you have to do something to catch it?

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not a pop up
by jonah jones May 6, 2007 1:15PM PDT

and you have to be infected with the trojan for it to run at start-up


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How does it get in?
by Angeline Booher May 7, 2007 7:15AM PDT
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