Should I be worried?

I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it got
there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were it is
waiting for me to enter a password.

Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got there
and make sure it gets totally removed.?

Artreid;1193659 Wrote:
> I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
> online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it
> got
> there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were it
> is
> waiting for me to enter a password.
>
> Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got
> there
> and make sure it gets totally removed.?

Run a virus scan with your anti-virus. See if it picks anything up.


--
CrucialHoax

Artreid wrote:
> I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
> online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it
> got there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were
> it is waiting for me to enter a password.
>
> Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got
> there and make sure it gets totally removed.?

Kill the chickens, hens, roosters and turkeys if you want to stop any
"fowl" play.

Seriously, reinstall Windows if you want to be totally sure your
computer is clean.

Alias

Artreid wrote:
> I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of
> my online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas
> how it got there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon
> screen were it is waiting for me to enter a password.
>
> Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is
> got there and make sure it gets totally removed.?

I suspect it's more likely that you accidentally "dragged" the address from
the address bar or bookmarks of Firefox on to your desktop thereby creating
a shortcut.

Check the shortcut properties and make sure it does actually direct to the
genuine login page and not to some sort of spoof or "phishing" log in page.

Personally I'd just delete it and move on.

Tim

"Tim" <> wrote in message
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>
> Personally I'd just delete it and move on.
>
> Tim
I agree with Tim.

Have a good spyware detector, like MBAM or Spybot Search and Destroy
and update and run these program on a regular basis. Saga

"Alias" <> wrote in message
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> Artreid wrote:
>> I just found an Firefox icon on my Desktop that is pointing to one of my
>> online Retirement Accounts that I did not create and have ideas how it
>> got there. If I click it, it brings me to my Fidelity logon screen were
>> it is waiting for me to enter a password.
>>
>> Of course I suspect fowl play but how can I verify Who/What/Why is got
>> there and make sure it gets totally removed.?
>
> Kill the chickens, hens, roosters and turkeys if you want to stop any
> "fowl" play.

But make sure never to use that INFERIOR Ubuntu

>
> Seriously, reinstall Windows if you want to be totally sure your computer
> is clean.
>
> Alias