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Parasites

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Could someone please explain what a parasite is. I signed up for broadband and when the man came to install it he told me that I had a parasite and it was interfering with my internet homepage. Is this serious and can I get rid of it. Thanks in advance.
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  • LMck111
    LMck111 Posts: 29 Forumite
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    A Flea is a parasite and the online dictionary shows..:

    Definition
    parasite [Show phonetics]
    noun [C]
    1 an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it:
    The older drugs didn't deal effectively with the malaria parasite.

    2 DISAPPROVING a person who is useless and lives by other people's work:
    Financial speculators are parasites upon the national economy.

    I like the last one..!!!

    Seriously though....I would imagine the installer meant to say Virus and just got a bit mixed up...!

    Do some virus checks.
  • sicker
    sicker Posts: 1,370 Forumite
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    Do a search on 'google' for adaware.
    Run the free check from there, better still, download and run the free program. This will find and give you the option to delete any parasites found.

    John
  • Coldfinger
    Coldfinger Posts: 571 Forumite
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