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TreasonousBastard

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3. I haven't clicked on a bogus email (yet), but I have seen popups...

Reply to Stonepounder (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 04:45 PM

Oct 2018

telling me I've just gotten a virus, and "click here" to get rid of it.

Laughable, right? But it read my bios, or something, and identified my machine so it looked scary real.

Fully backed up, I thought about clicking just to see what would happen. Then I thought-- maybe not.

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

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One moment's inattention. [View all] Stonepounder Oct 2018 OP

Very likely what happened to your computer was that it displayed a mostly harmless Web page royable Oct 2018 #1

Hope so. Stonepounder Oct 2018 #2

I haven't clicked on a bogus email (yet), but I have seen popups... TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #3