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Is this a Virus or what?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeremy14" data-source="post: 1641795" data-attributes="member: 168975"><p>Today I received an email from an old friend with a website link on my iMac with OS Yosemitie. Upon clicking on it a window appeared with the following text.</p><p><span style="color: Red">http://system-kernel-disk-errorx005dsxx-microsoft-windows.errors9987.com</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Possible Privacy Breach and Computer Error Detected Due to Suspicious Activity Found On Your Computer.</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Contact A Certified Live Technician Now:</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">+44 (0800) 756-2985 (Toll Free)</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p></p><p>Whether this was caused by my friend's email I am unable to say. I was then unable to access any website either with Safari or Firefox. I was reluctant to phone the number given as it may have been a scam to take money from credit card in exchange for a repair. Strange as it may seem I am able to use the computer for any other activity including emails. I am sending this from my MBP which isn't affected so far. I am reluctant to have both the iMac and MBP logged on at the same time to prevent cross contamination.</p><p>So, is this a virus and would an anti-virus app repair my iMac?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeremy14, post: 1641795, member: 168975"] Today I received an email from an old friend with a website link on my iMac with OS Yosemitie. Upon clicking on it a window appeared with the following text. [COLOR="Red"]http://system-kernel-disk-errorx005dsxx-microsoft-windows.errors9987.com Possible Privacy Breach and Computer Error Detected Due to Suspicious Activity Found On Your Computer. Contact A Certified Live Technician Now: +44 (0800) 756-2985 (Toll Free) [/COLOR] Whether this was caused by my friend's email I am unable to say. I was then unable to access any website either with Safari or Firefox. I was reluctant to phone the number given as it may have been a scam to take money from credit card in exchange for a repair. Strange as it may seem I am able to use the computer for any other activity including emails. I am sending this from my MBP which isn't affected so far. I am reluctant to have both the iMac and MBP logged on at the same time to prevent cross contamination. So, is this a virus and would an anti-virus app repair my iMac? [/QUOTE]
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