Bad News

[Unreal4Eva]

I opened an email this morning and I wasnt thinking before I opened it and there was a virus in it ! I had already re-installed Windows and I have to reinstall UT3 again !

 

[TurdDrive]

thats why your worse than me with computers.

get antivirus.

 

[Unreal4Eva]

I have avast antivirus. It detected but won't remove the virus so I reformatted and re-installed Windows.

 

[Phoenix_Wing]

E-mail viruses are *generally* not that bad. I've never had luck with any paid anti-viruses (yes you norton and your PoS!). Spybot S&D, Malware Bytes, and a good ol Live CD gets 95% a good majority of the viruses out there off.

Reformatting is a pretty big step, dont jump to conclusions about reinstalling, try Safe Mode first, then if its on there use a Live CD with a pretty recent AV database on it (Pretty sure Hirens has AV on it, along with Super Windows and Win PE boots)

 

[Wormbo]

A virus from opening an email? You definitely use the wrong email program.

 

[Unreal4Eva]

A virus from opening an email? You definitely use the wrong email program.

Thanks for the late warning lol. I should have used Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express .

 

[Unreal4Eva]

The game is set & ready to play! Thanks guys!

 

[synister]

Opening an email does nothing harmful. It's the clicking of suspicious links or opening suspicious attachments in your emails that you have to watch out for.

 

[Wormbo]

That is only true if you use a program that handles emails in a safe way. Outlook (Express) does definitely not belong in that category.

 

[BobTheBeheader]

I would imagine that the safest bet is to use a webmail client.