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Is This Viral?

by MLBW Nov 5, 2008 11:22AM PST

Okay, I read on this forum that MacBook's don't get viruses.

But...

Today, I started to copy web addresses and try to paste them within a window on Firefox and no matter what the actual address was, the only thing that would paste is this:

http://windowsxp-privacy.net/?id=12193338844

If you click on it, it is some sort of popup or something. I can't copy and paste web addresses while using Firefox.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Sorry no. It does not infect the MacOSX.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 5, 2008 11:58AM PST

That's the bad old XP Antivirus and it's kin.

I'd still avoid any site that is trying to infect PCs with that.

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