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I clicked on a link in a spam email

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some0481

Technical User
Apr 2, 2009
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The link was: (DO NOT CLICK IT!!!!!)

h t t p : / / s e t u t a . c o m / t r . p h p ? 6 7 5 3 4 + my-email-address

The spam suggested that if I clicked it, I could learn more about a course to become a Forensics expert. Sure enough, after clicking it, it redirects to some non-legit-looking educational site. It gets to this site through some unsavory looking sites like affiliates.adiclick.com (?) etc.

I am running Firefox and Windows Vista with User Account Control turned off. Do I need to do anything apart from running a virus scan? (I am using Webroot Antivirus - just ran it and said it found no problems)

I am pretty sure my email address has got harvested and I'll be getting more spam, but the chances of my having accidentally downloaded a keylogger or something equally malicious are vanishly small, right?
 
I'd go for an online scan, it wont hurt and then a HijackThis log.

Appart from that, I think that site is just scam

Cheers,
Dian
 
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