Do i have a virus? help much appreciated
i was browsing on firefox on my macbookpro 15 inch and suddenly a new window opened itself saying "you have a trojan, high risk" etc and then offered me a file to download with anti virus software on it, OBVIOUSLY this was a virus, unfortunately i was foolish enough in my panicked state to download it, thankfully i didnt install it and deleted it immediatly after realising what i had done. Am i fine because i didn't install it or should i be worried?
Many thanks for any response, Harrison
Those are just designed to get PC users scared into buying their software, it's not a virus it's just fear mongering. I'd guess what you downloaded wasn't a Mac programme anyway but as you didn't run it no harms been done.
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