But if he throws it away he’ll never really know, and more importantly WE will never really know. And what’s more important a virus-free system or fighting ignorance? I think we all know the answer to that.
I’m going to venture a guess that you’ll be getting an invoice in the next few weeks.
Not going to bet against the virus/rootkit theory though. Just really doesn’t make economic sense as a distribution vector unless they were under the impression that you were a business and hoping to get a hook into a large and/or sensitive network.
Yep, me too. Sounds like a more techy version of the book scam where you get sent endless books (thank you TimeLife et al) and then pestered for payment endlessly.
I don’t know. probably some company sold it - along with a million others, I imagine.
The bank cancelled my credit card and gave me a new one, to foil the scammers. So, I’ll sit back and wait.
BTW. in the OP when I asked about scanning the CD, I meant just putting it in the drive and scanning it there. I can right click the drive and scan the CD for viruseswith AVG antivirus, but not for other malware.
If you have AutoRun enabled on your machine, Malicious software could run automatically on insertion - the damage could already be done by the time you start scanning the CD.