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Thank u everyone for some excellent suggestions and ideas. thank u.
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Thank u everyone for some excellent suggestions and ideas. thank u.

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My OS is windows 7 and I have PC Essentials and also McAfee installed on my pc. &nbsp;<br />
One of my friends forwarded me an email purported to be sent by me asking him to click on a link, which took him to a web site called brizy.com. &nbsp;Earlier on someone had sent me a link to join this site, and I signed up thinking that it might serve as a good marketing tool. &nbsp;<br />
The email that was sent also mentioned my IP address.<br />
How could this have happened and how do I clean this up. <br />
Thank u.<br />

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My OS is windows 7 and I have PC Essentials and also McAfee installed on my pc.  
One of my friends forwarded me an email purported to be sent by me asking him to click on a link, which took him to a web site called brizy.com.  Earlier on someone had sent me a link to join this site, and I signed up thinking that it might serve as a good marketing tool.  
The email that was sent also mentioned my IP address.
How could this have happened and how do I clean this up. 
Thank u.


Virus

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

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Vulnerabilities

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