If your friends and contacts have received an email or IM message from your Hotmail account with wording along the lines of “I would like to introduce a good company who trades mainly in electronic products… etc” – it is highly likely that your Hotmail account has been compromised.

IF YOU ARE THE POOR [...]]]> http://www.thatdanny.com/2009/04/18/what-to-do-if-your-hotmail-account-got-hacked-the-recent-spate-of-attacks-on-hotmail-accounts/feed/ 419 http://www.thatdanny.com/2008/07/14/what-do-i-do-if-i-have-a-virus-virus-removal-and-virus-protection/ http://www.thatdanny.com/2008/07/14/what-do-i-do-if-i-have-a-virus-virus-removal-and-virus-protection/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:32:34 +0000 Danny http://www.thatdanny.com/?p=149 What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Protection)

This article covers what to do if you have a virus, or suspect you have a virus on your computer.

THE CAUSE
You are usually vulnerable to a virus under the following conditions:

1. You have virus protection on your [...]]]> http://www.thatdanny.com/2008/07/14/what-do-i-do-if-i-have-a-virus-virus-removal-and-virus-protection/feed/ 15 http://www.thatdanny.com/2008/06/23/yahoo-malware-virus-report-what-to-do-if-you-get-this-june-08/ http://www.thatdanny.com/2008/06/23/yahoo-malware-virus-report-what-to-do-if-you-get-this-june-08/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:34:01 +0000 Danny http://www.thatdanny.com/?p=113

Yahoo virus / malware report is a false positive (Avast)

Yahoo virus and malware reports from around the globe were found to be a false positive, captured by anti-virus program “Avast!”.

Concerned users were reporting the following message when they accessed yahoo.com:

“A virus was found!”
Malware name: VBS:malware-gen
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