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Received Notice of Spam from my network

Silk · 2009-05-10T18:22:53+00:00

Wife's Facebook account sent out messages with a link to a malware site. I checked her machine and found the koobface virus. Attempted to qurantine it using either AVG or Counterspy. Can't remember which. Subsequent AVG and counterspy scans found no additional problems. However, we are still experiencing problems on our network and her machine. - Her PC shuts off/reboots at random times. It reboots every time I try to clear the IE or Java cache. - Our network connectivity is slow and dropping in and out constantly. Both her and my machine. Started after Facebook incident. - Direct connect to the modem with my PC and there are no connectivity issues. - There is a router between the modem and our machines. I loaded the latest firmware. Same issues. Her machine connects through wireless. - Received a browser redirect on my machine today from my ISP (RR). It was a message that a machine from this modem was sending out a large amount of spam. - She informed me she had clicked "OK" to downlo

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chryssi2001

May 28, 2009, 6:54 PM UTC

As your problems appear to have been resolved,