How do you know you may be infected with a virus?
Symptoms may be:
- unexplained messages or images appear all of a sudden
- unusual sounds or music is being played when not expected
- your CD-ROM drive opens and closes mysteriously
- programs start suddenly
- your firewall alerts you that some appl wants to connect to the Internet
- your friends mention they have had messages, which you did not send
- your mailbox contains a lot of messages without a sender's e-mail address
Secondary symptons could be:
- your computer halts or freezes or encounters errors
- your computer slows down when programs are started
- files and folders have been deleted or emptied or changed
- your harddrive is accessed too often
- Microsoft Internet Explorer freezes or functions erratically or you cannot close the application running
If someone knows more please add to this listing.
It is not complete.
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