Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#21
Thanks for that Peter, now why don't I recall clicking on to a Polish website? Hopefully having purged my contact list, updated the virus check and firewall etc. I can get rid of it at last.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#22
If you right click on a link (or with some systems, hover your pointer on it), it tells you where the link will really take you. The link itself can be camouflaged to make it look innocent in the body of the message.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#23
Chris maybe the source is the constant stream of links coming up in your name on facebook.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#24
It could be as simple as bots trawling the internet for e-mail addresses and trying to hack them, DF contacts are probably in your contacts and e-mailed from there, so it may not even be your PC affected
I'd also check your webmail and change the password if you can
Been nice knowing you :)
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#25
Got another missive from barryatob@aol this morning. Interesting that all the other recipients addresses started "te...
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#26
Yes just had one of them too Terry. In my case all the emails start with "do... as in my case
dover7@msn.comGuest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#27
The safest option is format your hard disk and clean install Windows.
I had a hellish job dong exactly that recently. It is 99.99% certain to be a virus and not some evil forumite. Virus checkers do not always pick them up once installed.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#28
The easiest way, and just as safe although it costs a few quid, is to take your PC and original software to Dave at DRT Technologies in Priory St and he will do it for you, re-installing clean copies of all your files, etc.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#29
I received an e mail this morning pertaining to be from someone who is on another forum based in Dover (I haven't been on there for about 2 years now) and although I know of the person, the e mail attachment appeared dodgy and sure enough it was spat out by my antivirus.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#30
I've just been informed by two local folks that I've sent emails saying I'm stuck in Ukraine and need funds to get me back home (almost as bad as missing the last bus and trying to get back to Lydden).
I've checked all my security settings and ant-virus and I'm up-to-date so it might be that someone who has me in their address book has been hacked.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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#31
Hi Ray - the message received was quite amusing really. Apparently you'd had to travel to the Ukraine in secret to broker some sort of deal and had enjoyed a successful trip right up to the point where you were attacked on the way back to the hotel. The attackers had managed to wrest from you all your worldly belongings without causing you any injury.
As your trip could not possibly have been viewed as a success had you gone to broker the peace, I can only assume that your secret mission was to foment further unrest
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#32
Hi Neil - sounds like a typical parish council meeting!
I've had several phone calls and texts from kind folks warning me (and in some cases having a laugh at my expense
), but I did meet an elderly lady from the village who had just picked it up on her phone and said to me "Oh, you're back!", so out of the millions of these sent some are believed and occasionally work.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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#33
Didn't have a dollar account Ray. I was going to check in Lydden & Stonehall to see if they were organising a ransom account .