Computer Security & Viruses/graboid video

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my computer recently got a virus. i had graboid video on my computer do you think the virus could of come from this
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Hi Mandy,

From what I found on-line, AVG reported a false positive regarding this program but that has been taken care of. See the following:

http://www.graboid.com/avg-trojan-warning/

The odds are that you computer was infected by another source, from an email message, an attachment or from a web site. The important thing is to keep the anti-virus program up to date and to run a virus scan at least once a week.

Hope this helps!
Lorry

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I can answer most questions regarding viruses/Trojans and help to remove them.

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This happens to be of interest to me as it boggles my mind that people have nothing better to do than to write a virus. Wish these people, the ones who write viruses would put the knowledge to good use instead. My job as a local tech involves removing viruses and/or spyware.

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