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Trojan warning

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webhamster
webhamster Posts: 258 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
Msn messenger 7.5 has a thing coming up as a link , block-checker.com....if you see it dont click it it links to a trojan.

warned by avg.

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  • Fran
    Fran Posts: 11,280 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    I can't find any info on the AVG website, do you have a link to the info?
    Torgwen.......... :) ...........
  • Toxteth_OGrady
    Toxteth_OGrady Posts: 3,958 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's not a trojan, it's just extremely irritating adware that spams all your Messenger contacts to go download the same. Removal is pretty straight forward.

    Just google for "www.block-checker.com" [with the quotation marks] and you'll get over 700 hits describing the little beastie.

    :cool:

    TOG
    604!
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