I think DU has been infected - Democratic Underground

catmandu57

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Tue Nov-09-04 04:17 PM
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I think DU has been infected

everytime I come here I'm infected with smartsearch, I have to run my coolweb shredder to run my media player, anyone else experiencing this?

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Burma Jones

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Tue Nov-09-04 04:18 PM
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1. That's why I switched to Firefox..............n/t

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mirandapriestly

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Tue Nov-09-04 04:19 PM
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2. I have Norton Anti Virus

which told me yesterday that a worm was trying to attack my computer when I was on here. I don't know if that is the same

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OldEurope

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Tue Nov-09-04 04:22 PM
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4. when did you get the last update from Norton?

Did this today, and now the warning did not occur again.

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flyingfysh

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Tue Nov-09-04 04:21 PM
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3. it sounds like it is your machine that is infected.

I have no problems with this site at all, but obviously you do.

Run Ad-Aware (free from www.lavasoftusa.com), also Spybot Search & Destroy (Google to find it).

I'm not sure what "coolweb shredder" is. There is something called "CoolWeb Search" (or something like that) which is a well-known obnoxious piece of spyware.

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