Good advice Alan C! Rude words do not do these ******s justice!!
The main thing - and it always amazes me why some people whose computers I
end up going out to fix don't take it on board - is for heavens' sake get
AND KEEP UPDATED a respectable antivirus package! It does not involve much
effort once installed and what it will save you in time and possibly money
should something get in is well worth the initial effort.
Email worms such as are doing the rounds right now will if triggered take
your address book and fire off infections to everyone on it. Some people
with relatively little IT experience will then accuse a friend of "sending
them a virus". This is nonsense as it is the virus itself that is busy at
work propagating itself round the WWW, but I have come across cases where
people have bitterly fallen out over it - totally unnecessarily.
The wonders of modern technology, eh????
Cheers - John
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