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Dummy Buggy Email/ Virus Questions

POSTED BY: RahlMaclaren
UPDATED: Sunday, March 7, 2010 23:46
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RAHLMACLAREN

Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:42 AM

Psst... *nudge, nudge*

What's a good free virus scanner, that also works with win98?

I was using AVG 7.5 until it stopped supporting my OS. Gorramit. How's a guy supposed to keep an old rig running right these days.

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BIGRICHARD

Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:39 AM

Almost didn't finish reading your post, was just going to say AVG!

It seems BitDefender would work for you...I just checked and their free edition says it works with Win98...
http://www.bitdefender.com.au/PRODUCT-14-au--BitDefender-10-Free-Editi
on.html#requirements

(sorry about the aussie site, automatically redirects me..not sure how it will take a cut-paste link)

Unfortunately, that's the only one I've heard about (good things too!), other than AVG.
Best of luck!

ECGORDON

Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:46 PM

I am of the opinion that there was no problem with someone hacking into your email account. It only takes about ten seconds for someone to change the "From" designation in any account, whether it be Hotmail or any other type. I did it myself on one of my Hotmail accounts a few weeks ago when I realized I had it set with my real name rather than "ecgordon."

The main purpose for people to do that and make it seem you are emailing yourself or someone is posing as you is to get you to click on some link within that email message. The same scheme is used by sending out "Undeliverable Message" emails, phishing scams by posing as Ebay or PayPal, and lately for me as amazon.com concerning a canceled order. It is particularly obvious when it comes to one of my accounts that is not associated with those companies in any way (I have about six different email accounts, three of them on Hotmail).

BIGRICHARD

Sunday, March 7, 2010 9:02 PM

possibly ecg, and they often do just mirror your email, but the fact that it had somehow accessed his contact list wasn't a good sign. It probably wasn't a hacker, more likely some form of bug or evil cookie, but the fact that it had information from his account, rather than just his email address, points toward something more than just an email spoof. I would've thought.

FREELANCERTEX

Sunday, March 7, 2010 11:46 PM

Rahl: I have Avast and it works pretty well. You have to register it after a time (no money required) because their free one is funky for some reason, but it's been pretty good at protecting my computer thus far.