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On 07/02/12 16:26, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> Any comments anyone...? > > Viruses/Trojans haven't trashed computers for a very long time... A > working PC is much more valuable to a remote scammer than a broken one. > > So I'm very suspicious about this - possibly just sheer coincidence that > the drive crashed - possibly with a bit more load on it as a trojan > scanned it for email addresses, etc. ? (guessing, but that's what I'd do > if writing some malware to send spam email) > > Gordon > OK. Once his computer has been fixed I'll find out exactly what happened to it if I can and let you all know. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq