two weird ips

helix.hex · Sep 23, 2010

i got two emails from my mom with links in them with nothing else in them- not even a subject. so i click on the first one considering i got avg, spybot, and avira as well as commodo for safeguards along with peerblock. nothing happened so i took steps to ensure that nothing was in my computer by scanning the HD-nothing.

my question is this: how i know whether or not the two links that were in the email are Trojans? i am not going to post them yet due to the fact that some people in forums just randomly click on anything(i know i done it too at one time or another.)

also i new here so if i placed this in the wrong please forgive me i a newb in here.

TimW · Sep 23, 2010

If none of your protection software flagged it, then they may not have been malware. I would advise you, however, to either keep AVG or Avira and uninstall the other one. You should only have one real time AV program running.

helix.hex · Sep 23, 2010

thank you for your help and quick response. now all i have to do i clean my moms computer out.....and figure out which is better:AVG or avira....

TimW · Sep 24, 2010

Either AV program would be good, its just a matter of which you prefer.

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