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