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Nope. I'm trying to remember if I've even accepted attachments from people...and the only ones I can think of are the ones off Blackboard that my professors post for schoolwork.
I mean, I kind of wonder if I got it from a website somehow, but my only daily-visited sites are Hatrack, Livejournal, Myspace, and Gmail.
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Lots of ways. Download a pic with it embedded seems likely, since you're seeing it in your temporary files. It shouldn't get activated by default, I think, but if you were to download that particular pic and double click it . . . there could be issues, depending on other settings.
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I recently had to go through an amazing process in order to remove the w32.sinnaka.a@mm virus. That was interesting.
It installed a Yazzle Sudoku program and a bunch of other "Spyware cleaner" programs that were malware themselves...at the very end my friend and I were able to clean it out, but it was a fiesty sonuvagun.
Google is your friend in a lot of these cases.
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I have an antivirus, which supposedly found and destroyed the problem. But it's weird that it would come back. The first time I found it, I had over 2000 infected files. This time, I had three or four.
Bwar.
I don't THINK I have any anti-spyware stuff beyond Ad Aware...I don't have a spyware problem unless I use IE.
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The first time you found it it was likely a true infection. This time it was likely just sitting in some temporary internet files, inactive.
Also, its not necessarily the same virus. That's a generic identifier for a class of virii. Unfortunately, its not a pleasant class.
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