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Re: [LUG] Amazon - DHL - problem

 

On 07/02/12 16:26, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 
>> Any comments anyone...?
> 
> Viruses/Trojans haven't trashed computers for a very long time... A
> working PC is much more valuable to a remote scammer than a broken one.
> 
> So I'm very suspicious about this - possibly just sheer coincidence that
> the drive crashed - possibly with a bit more load on it as a trojan
> scanned it for email addresses, etc. ? (guessing, but that's what I'd do
> if writing some malware to send spam email)
> 
> Gordon
> 
OK. Once his computer has been fixed I'll find out exactly what happened
to it if I can and let you all know.

Neil

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