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dancingqueen · Moderator Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 43111

i had a notepad shortcut appear on my screen this morning, and have no idea what it means Shocked

helo Dadenuk? or Tiki or summer please? Confused

can i just delete it, have run a scan, errmmmm and all that

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summertime · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

what were you doing at the time, was it a pop up from a site or were you in a different programme.

what did it actually say

I think a scan might be in order

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dancingqueen · Moderator Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 43111

the time on it was from last night, 22.15, around the time i said my page kept closing when i spoke to you in chat Confused

only noticed it this morning though

it is a notepad page with an error message in it, i have sent it to D so he may be able to tell me

all i was doing at the time was here on the forum, maybe surfing around, but nowhere dodgy, honest miss Wink

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Tiki · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

Without seeing it I can't help much. Run a full virus scan and run spybot or something similar. You might have touched one of the pre-programmed keys on your keyboard by accident. If it's a shortcut on your desktop. You're safe to delete it.

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dancingqueen · Moderator Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 43111

thanks Tiki

have run spybot and there is nothing there, running a full scan at the moment too

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dancingqueen · Moderator Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 43111

thanks for the advice, im sorting it out at the moment Very Happy

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DOROTHY · Forum Supporter Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 3896

Whats 'spybot'? Not very IT literate!

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Tiki · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

Spybot search and destroy is a nice little free program that you can run to detect and remove adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and web usage tracks from your system

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DOROTHY · Forum Supporter Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 3896

Thanks. Will try it tomorrow.

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summertime · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

ive got that and other free stuff on disk at school dot if you ask me tomorrow

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Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

DOROTHY · Forum Supporter Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 3896

Thank you!

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