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Old 05-09-2017, 11:47 PM #1
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Oh flaming yuk!

We have automatic settings on our machines thank goodness!

Thanks for the warning, Jo.
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Before the critical update was installed somebody tried to infect this laptop with it.

Gmail sorted the message to my spam folder.

I was suspicious of it because it was strange and included a weird attachment which would have been the malware.

Selecting "Delete Forever" was not a hard choice.
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