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Recently, a client mentioned that their employee had “the twitter virus” on their computer and they were wondering how to get rid of it. The employee had opened an email they thought was from twitter, which was so convincing that they clicked a link in the email. Unfortunately the email was not from twitter and the link took them to a website that placed a virus on their computer. The virus then placed pornography on their computer and told them they had to pay hundreds of dollars to have the virus removed. Instead of paying the ransom, they took the computer to a legitimate tech support company and had them remove the virus. The spammers did not make money on the transaction, but my client still had to pay out-of-pocket to have the computer cleaned up.
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