Re: smiley central virus?



Robyn da Bobbin wrote:

on my pc, i use a lot of the emoticons that are evailable to add from
other
people. when i wanted to send a smiley from smiley central, it came
up with
a lot of numbers, letters and emoticons which i have on my old
account. ( i do not have them on the new account which i am currently
using) it really annoys me becasuse i change my password, secret
question(if it a hacker) and when the 'bug' cures, all i have to do is
either sign off completely or sign
onto another account and it is wrecked again:-(. microsoft
anti-spyware does not detect anything if there is something hacking or
what have you.

please help because messenger is realy useful and i use it all the
time, many thanks.


I'm actually a little unclear about what you are asking. Could you
please rephrase your post. You may want to use a numbered list to
organize the issues better. Here is a link to help you:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

As for Smiley Central, it is a known source of malware. If you have
installed anything from there, uninstall it and go through these
malware removal steps:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke
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