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"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Johnson, Tracy
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Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:09:02 -0500
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I don't recall seeing them.  This list probably blocks attachments.

(Or my employer spam blocker caught them, 50:50 either way.)

Tracy Johnson
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of scott petersen
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:58 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [OPENMPE] Spam E-mail appology
> 
> Everyone,
>  
> I am sending this e-mail to everyone in my HOTMAIL e-mail 
> address book.  Last week I believe that you may have received 
> 2 (or more) e-mails from me.  It is my belief that these were 
> SPAM of some type.  I am not sure what was being harvested or 
> what was being done other than sending e-mails to people in 
> your address book.
>  
> I hope that you DID NOT click on the link, but some of you 
> may have done so.  I AM SORRY THAT I WAS SPOOFED.  I believe 
> that I have corrected my issue.  I used 2 tools to complete 
> this task.  
>  
> TOOL #1 was CCLEANER.  This can be found at 
> http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/ .  YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY 
> FOR IT.  Simply install.  During the install it will ask if 
> you want to make CHROME your default browser and to add a 
> GOOGLE bar to your browser.  I would recommend that you 
> UNCHECK both of these and NOT install those options.  After 
> the program is installed you need to CLEAN the files 
> ("Cleaner - Run Cleaner" - option).  Run that 2 times.  Then 
> when that finishes, you need to select "REGISTRY" and then 
> ANALYZE, then "FIX".  This should be repeated until it 
> reports that your registry is clean (or atleast reports the 
> same few entries).
> 
> TOOL #2 was MALWAREBYTES.  This can be found at 
> http://www.malwarebytes.org/ . YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY FOR IT. 
>  Simply install.  After the program is installed you need to 
> perform a FULL SCAN.  If it finds anything, I recommend that 
> you DELETE, PURGE, EXPUNGE, or whatever term they use to say 
> get this OFF MY MACHINE. This should be repeated until it 
> reports that you do not have any issues on your computer.
>  
> Finally, I changed by HOTMAIL password after this was 
> completed.  I am not sure which fixed the problem, I just 
> know that now things appear to be better.
> 
> 
> Scott T. Petersen 
> 
>  		 	   		  
> 

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