busyglen
18-01-2008, 2:31 PM
I have been waiting and keeping my fingers crossed that I would not fall foul of a computer virus. I have all the necessary protection in place, and on the whole try to help myself by never downloading anything that is suspect. In fact, apart from various files transmitted to me by family, which are scanned anyway, I rarely do much downloading.
I get the occasional pop-up from Symantec warning me of an attempt, which is handy, as I know it is doing it's job.....however, this morning I had the fright of my life!
When I first logged on, I went to read my emails, and one was from a niece who had sent a belated e-card. I hadn't at this time opened it, but I had a message pop up with `Virus Alert' `High Risk' `Unable to Repair' with Virus name of `Downloader'. Oh ....! The system seemed to go slow, and I lost my internet connection, and really started to panic....so as soon as I was able I started a complete virus scan. I left the programme running and came back some time later when it had finished.......I opened the screen, and hey! All files scanned and nothing found. When I re-logged in again, everything has been running perfectly normally, so I think...as per usual with me...I panicked unnecessarily. Thinking about it, it was probably the usual warning of an attempt, and I read it as an actual threat.
Do you think that this is all it was? Everything seems ok now, and the pc is not running slow.
Glenys
I get the occasional pop-up from Symantec warning me of an attempt, which is handy, as I know it is doing it's job.....however, this morning I had the fright of my life!
When I first logged on, I went to read my emails, and one was from a niece who had sent a belated e-card. I hadn't at this time opened it, but I had a message pop up with `Virus Alert' `High Risk' `Unable to Repair' with Virus name of `Downloader'. Oh ....! The system seemed to go slow, and I lost my internet connection, and really started to panic....so as soon as I was able I started a complete virus scan. I left the programme running and came back some time later when it had finished.......I opened the screen, and hey! All files scanned and nothing found. When I re-logged in again, everything has been running perfectly normally, so I think...as per usual with me...I panicked unnecessarily. Thinking about it, it was probably the usual warning of an attempt, and I read it as an actual threat.
Do you think that this is all it was? Everything seems ok now, and the pc is not running slow.
Glenys