Brookfield
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Yesterday, when I dialled up, a balloon stated "Connected to Anti-Virus Pro 2006", immediately it started d/loading an exe, smelling a rat, I hit the red X, & had to do this several times as various pop-ups arrived, among which was one that told me that I had four major viruses, in the end it said although I hadn't d/loaded, it would run in the background protecting my computer, I did a search including hidden files, programmes likewise, nothing, I activated AVG, no viruses. was able to get on the'net, but everything was slow.
I rebooted, looked at programmes again, it was there this time, & I uninstalled it & all it's components very easily, I've yet to look in the Recycle bin.
I've posted this as a warning to others, I was told by "my" techie, that had I d/loaded the exe, my spam emails would have increased dramatically, [he's done this job for nearly 20 years] he did say that this particular one is fairly new.
I rebooted, looked at programmes again, it was there this time, & I uninstalled it & all it's components very easily, I've yet to look in the Recycle bin.
I've posted this as a warning to others, I was told by "my" techie, that had I d/loaded the exe, my spam emails would have increased dramatically, [he's done this job for nearly 20 years] he did say that this particular one is fairly new.