Elardus, I totally agree with you. After getting a virus when I consulted in my email, I am super extra careful
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >> PS: it was only my desk-top short-cuts to specific web sites. NOT the 'main' >> ICON on my desk-top. > > What are the properties of those short-cuts? > > Next time, turn off your automatic updates and turn ON any notifications of > installation attempts. > Look carefully at your 'add-ons' in Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10 and disable > all of them. > Turn off all 'pop-ups', 'cookies' and all those annoying nasties. > Activate your antivirus sofware so no auto-install is taking place. > You need to check your installed programs and UNINSTALL everyone you don't > recognize. > > When you download something, check the WHOLE web-page, like Adobe, where some > unneeded nasties are also downloaded when you're not careful. > > Then, on win 7 there are those desktop gadgets, check them and get rid of > those you don't recognize them. > > Mind you, I personally have the absolute minimum software installed on my > work's laptop. If want to have 'funny' software, I will do that on one of my > home computers. ;-D > > If you're having Linux, Firefox, etc, perhaps you're not so exposed, but then > I don't that software combination... ;-D > > HTH! > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
