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Originally Posted by retsaw View Post
A fair proportion of viruses actually come from the ads these days, so it may have been one of the ads you were served that infected your laptop (assuming it was from that page). There are quite a few dodgy looking ads on that page, so it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe you should use an Ad Blocker, or an OS not prone to virus infections, or both.
Maybe better still if posters thought about the link they were directing people too? I don't think I will go out and buy a new laptop just to look at links from this website! Anyway it is the first time this particular laptops ever suffered a virus attack so it is something fairly unusal about the website. .
 

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