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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My computer was attacked by a nasty virus after opening Heritage site a few hours ago..Had to go through a file recovery.Just be careful.Went right around my protection and firewall.
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Valued Member
United States
323 Posts |
Wow, thank you for the warning! That is really scary that it is at the Heritage site. Do you know the name/what the virus did?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1523 Posts |
It attacked with the fake attack warning with fake offers to buy virus softwear and blocks you from trying to clean it up.It was nasty.
Edited by Halfwitty
05/25/2010 7:13 pm
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Valued Member
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Are you positive? My friend had same said virus and I can tell you he'd never visit Heritage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1523 Posts |
Was working all day with no problems and as soon as I signed into Heritage the pop up hit me and froze my comp.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think the timing is coincidental. I did a scan of the site using a proxy and came up with nothing. I went in person and came up blank using IE/Chrome/FireFox
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1418 Posts |
Earlier this year, I got attacked with a virus from coin community. It wasn't the site, just a coincidence.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
My son had not used his computer for 2 weeks.. he went to Google and the same one popped up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1523 Posts |
Hummm. I hope that's the case because I like Heritage.I will just wait for awhile before going back.That was a major pain.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4846 Posts |
WOW!this might be a country wide virus, or maybe its targeting coin collectors only  NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2335 Posts |
That virus is one of the biggest scams ever. My In-laws have had it 3 times & I got it about a month ago. My Father In-Law has the bad habit of clicking on links he shouldn't. I picked it up when I accidently clicked on an advertisement. The darn thing is hard to get rid of.
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Here is someone else who got it yesterday: http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/in...83;topicseenCan't vouch for the program they recommend to clean it up, but they say boot in safe mode. I like my Mac, even though she's getting old. Not Heritage's fault or targeting coin collectors. lol... Edited by realpenny
05/25/2010 8:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1418 Posts |
I had to use McAfee security center to get rid of it. They charged me 100 dollars for something their program should have prevented in the first place.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I had to pay 49.99 from HP.I have McAfee as well and it went right around it.I hope it never hits here although now I know how to get rid of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You know how to get rid of that one. If you get a different one, you're stuck.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1523 Posts |
My HP has a recovery system. I just go back to a date before the attack and wipe it out.
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Posted 05/25/2010 5:29 pm
