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Originally Posted by abigsmurf
Doesn't matter if you open a suspicious file or not. All you have to do is go to a web page with a malicious PDF embedded in it (or the adverts). The player will automatically try to open it and the malware will install itself. Doesn't matter if you're running Firefox or IE either.
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I had a really tough virus a couple of years ago while looking for some product information. The antivirus program I used at the time
said that it caught it. It took about 3 or 4 hours to clean it up.
My wife thinks that you get a virus from porn sites. I had an anti-virus program on her computer but for whatever reason it was turned off. One day she's pounding on her keyboard yelling that I had to get her a new computer, hers was too slow. Needless to say, I couldn't connect to, or download from, any anti-virus web sites. I downloaded one from my computer to a USB drive and installed it on her computer. It found more than 350 pieces of spyware, malware, and viruses.
I now use the free version of
Avast. It'll give you a pop-up when it detects a web page that tries to sneak something nasty into your computer.