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07-24-2009, 04:21 AM
does anyone know if its real because i cant click on it and it showed about 16 things in the download box after it popped up and said i had a lot of viruses detected. are they really on my computer? |
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07-24-2009, 04:35 AM
1. Websites cannot scan your computer for viruses. 2. Its an animation, I am willing to bet it is scanning your C drive and processing dll files, since its a dumb site that doesn't know you are running OS X 3. It will tell you you have a virus, then suggest you download their software to fix the problem. I am willing to bet the program is a windows exe file that pretends to be an anti-virus app. In fact the application will insall malware if you download it, but luckily, as it is a windows app, it will not run anyway on OS X In short, ignore the site and do not download any software from it |
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07-24-2009, 04:39 AM
and also for this website is there a way to have answers to my questions sent to my email, like alerting me? |
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07-24-2009, 05:00 AM
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07-24-2009, 07:07 AM
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