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Do I have a worm or virus in my system? What to do about it?
3 contacts have forwarded me emails that have my name as the sender, although not my email address. The contact of the email is a link. In the emails forwarded to me I can also see a list from my contact list -i.e. that this mail from not my address was sent to various contacts and will appear as though it is from me.
Is this a worm or a virus?
Is this something I can take care of myself?
I am on Windows 7. Currently booted in safe mode with networking as precautionary measure. I was using AVAST and would like to change to Kaspersky Internet Security as after this I would like increased security. Would Kaspersky sort out the worm or virus or does it need other skill?
There were difficulties reported on this forum in the past about removing AVAST and installing Kaspersky - is this still problematic?
I use different email clients - I have 2 work email addresses, a yahoo address and a gmail account. I use outlook on my laptop and sometimes access email through Firefox browser. I also access email from my Android Samsung S4 mini. On the Android the mail is accessed through gmail app (the work addresses feed in here) or yahoo app.
There have not been reports of such emails since 17 August when 2 different versions were reported.
Much appreciated
Lynda
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