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Hi
I use Avg but I dont think it catches everything because I think I got a very nasty trojan about two weeks ago.
It came from an email from ups.com. It looked completely legitamate but I was suspicious because I had not had any dealings with them. It was in a zip file. I inspected it with avg and it was pronounced clean so I backed up an image of my computer then opened the zip. It contained an exe file. I also investigated it with avg but no problem found. I was still suspicious so I looked at the hexcode under DOS but there was almost no ASCII type data.
I was curious to what it was so knowing I could kill the operating system and start again I ran the exe file. Nothing happened. I erased all the stuff and re-loaded my image thinking that all would be OK.
However I now believe it was trojan that hijacked my hotmail contact list (held by hotmail of course) as now I can't email any address on the contact list and I can't edit it. If the address is not on the contact list it appears to work OK
I also got back to UPS with the details and they confirmed it was not theirs.
I am investigating it at the moment.
Barry
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