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Ok this is strange andI'm not sure how this happens but here goes...

I got an email in my hotmail account that when I click on to open flashes a black screen up really quickly (I managed to read the words 'remove' and 'disable') & makes my PC restart. Hotmail support is of no use (suprise surprise!) but I want to know what the heck is this thing?
My firewall shows no new or unusual connections & my virus scanner comes up clean.... anyone know what this is?

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Originally Posted by LadyLexa
Ok this is strange andI'm not sure how this happens but here goes...

I got an email in my hotmail account that when I click on to open flashes a black screen up really quickly (I managed to read the words 'remove' and 'disable') & makes my PC restart. Hotmail support is of no use (suprise surprise!) but I want to know what the heck is this thing?
My firewall shows no new or unusual connections & my virus scanner comes up clean.... anyone know what this is?
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Thanks for the help!

I changed to setting to get the 'blue screen (XP)' and got a message about IRQL not less or equal (whatever that means!). But everything seems to be ok, my main concern was that this was some sort of attempt to get into my system but after running virus scans, trojan scans, adaware etc etc and everything coming up clean, I think I'm ok!

Thanks a bunch!
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Originally Posted by LadyLexa View Post
Ok this is strange andI'm not sure how this happens but here goes...

I got an email in my hotmail account that when I click on to open flashes a black screen up really quickly (I managed to read the words 'remove' and 'disable') & makes my PC restart. Hotmail support is of no use (suprise surprise!) but I want to know what the heck is this thing?
My firewall shows no new or unusual connections & my virus scanner comes up clean.... anyone know what this is?

Ta!
I finally fixed this issue... I posted the fix on my bulletin board at

http://204.96.180.26/novell/YaBB.pl?num=1227559810/0#0

I hope this helps someone.

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Hotmail has had alot of JS errors over the years... (I remember when i used to get white screens (Bad coding))

Thanx for that link,nice looking site!!

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May be this is a rootkit problem.try a scan from avg internet security
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I finally fixed this issue... I posted the fix on my bulletin board at

http://204.96.180.26/novell/YaBB.pl?num=1227559810/0#0

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks,
Sam
Please note...I'm moving my bulletin board to a new server. If the above URL doesn't work, please go to the following link:

http://support.csilogan.com/novell/Y...num=1227559810

Thanks, and again, I hope this helps someone.

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