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   Rodney Pont to Joe Zeff   
   Re: Does anybody know about this program   
   18 Feb 14 21:06:45   
   
   From: mlist4@infohit.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   On 18 Feb 2014 20:35:39 GMT, Joe Zeff wrote:   
      
   >My sister has a laptop running XP, and just received an email telling her   
   >about an urgent security update to Adobe Flash Player, but the link in   
   >the email doesn't lead directly to Adobe, making me suspicious.  The   
   >email was sent by a company selling RegCure Pro, a registry cleaner for   
   >people using Windows.  Does anybody know anything about this product or   
   >company, because I'm not that familiar with Windows anymore, and want to   
   >make sure that she hasn't inadvertently installed malware/spyware on her   
   >laptop.  (At least her desktop is safe; things like this can't muck up   
   >Xubuntu.)   
      
   There was a recent update to Flash player but Adobe did it, not another   
   company. Go to control panel and open up Flash player there and check   
   for an update, on the last tab I believe.   
      
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