My mom's email account has a virus on it. Whenever she wants to send a message, there is this letter of spam on the bottom about some bank guy in Europe. This is annoying and we don't know how it got there. Does anyone have any suggestons how this virus can be removed?
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http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Use the free version, update, do a scan
All are good but a lot of people do not update after they get them.
And it only takes a couple of minutes.
Make sure you update everday they are not automatic
Get an anti virus progam also male ware program and use scans on both.
Pick they are free. But only 1 anti virus and 2 male ware programs!!!!!!!.
Download these free scanners from these websites:
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://malwarebytes.org/
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Also the sight you get them from are legitimate.