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Is there a virus from "Bigfoot.com" ?
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May 27, 2008, 06:10 PM
 
Is there a virus from "Bigfoot.com" ?

Our Dual 800 which gets all our email and we use "Microsoft Entourage" and my friend opens all the email. I do not know which one it was yet since Friday morning I have a box in the upper left hand corner that is indexing our computer. I didn't get the whole name what I did see was some part of the name "bigfoot.com" there is another word in front of the Bigfoot part I will get it next time when I see it indexing.

Points to note is that when Microsoft Entourage is closed it does not happen and it mostly does this when there is no other work going on when the computer just sits there.

That's all I could think of could somebody give me an idea?

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May 27, 2008, 07:20 PM
 
This is probably one of the directory options turned on. Click Tools > Accounts > Directory Service and delete any entries there (assuming you don't use them). Not sure why it's on. I've seen some installations that have it on by default, which is dumb.
     
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May 27, 2008, 09:04 PM
 
Found it and I am very thankful for your help I did not even know where to begin I went right to where you said it would be and there it was. I don't even know who put that there.

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