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Mon 21-Sep-15
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Hi Danny.....I don't know whether this is in fact anything to be worried about (remember, it's the blonde technophobe here! whistle ), but thought I ought to mention it anyhow.

This morning I was waiting in the car whilst husband was in the boys toys shop (Screwfix  big_laugh ) and decided to have a look at the forum on my mobile phone.  Suddenly, I got a big flashing message from my antivirus programme (Avast) telling me they'd intercepted and blocked 4 viruses  eeek

Obviously I have AV on my phone and laptop, as I expect most of us do, but is this something to be concerned about?

learning to love veg…..except celery :-O

Mon 21-Sep-15
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You would get a faster response if you copy and paste your post on CSH Facebook page, Sue.

I'll try that again!

Mon 21-Sep-15
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I have mentioned it on there as well, Toni, thanks.

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Sue, I have no idea why that should be.

I know that both Val and I had false alerts about CSH when we had security software installed on our laptops - as recommended by our banks. It gave me so many false warnings that eventually I uninstalled it.

However, I will install Avast on my laptop and phone, and run some tests - just to be sure and play safe.

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Mon 21-Sep-15
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BTW - I use AVG AntiVirus and that does alert me to dodgy sites but it has never given me a warning about CSH.

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Thanks Danny......it's only happened today, never before on my phone.  And I've never had that warning from Avast when viewing CSH on my laptop.

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Tue 22-Sep-15
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Hi Sue - I installed it on my laptop and it did not give me any warnings about CSH.

It did warn me about something to do with Internet Explorer (which I do not use, but which is installed on my laptop).

I honestly would not worry about it. If there was something malicious on CSH, then my own AVG anti-virus on my phone would have alerted me ages ago. And other people would have reported something by now also.

Later today I will try installing Avast on my phone too.

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Ok thank you Danny.

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