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all your base are belong to us
Yeh, it sucks. The Innernets are broken, especially email.
The more surface you touch on the Internet, typically the more exposed you are. And like herpes, once your infected...
What can you do? Don't forward the chain letters. All you've done is verified your email address.
Run your computer updates weekly at minimum. You will be more secure, 'cept for the occasion when a MS patch breaks something (yes, this happens).
Run Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware on ALL of your computers and keep up to date. The only thing that running your 6 year expired Norton 2004 does is give a false sense of security. Free AVG is adequate, Kaspersky is pretty good. MS Security Essentials - jury is still out.
Update, update, update.
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