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IM VIRUS
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:38 pmby Kaibashi Shintaro
To all those now using any popular IM service AIM, Yahoo, and MSN. You may recieve a message advertising a piece of software leting you know who is blocking you. Do NOT use this, it is a trojan horse. I'm trying to get rid of it on my pc, but to no avail. DON'T CLICKwww.block-checker.comDon't CLICK Do NOT click that link, I'm uncluding it for refernce purposese if anyone has encountered this previously. If you or anyone you know knows how to kill this thing, let me know.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:03 amby Demon
smart move by making it an ACTIVE HYPERLINK to an infected site..
too bad I didn't click the link.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:28 amby Kaibashi Shintaro
Demon wrote:smart move by making it an ACTIVE HYPERLINK to an infected site..
too bad I didn't click the link.
My mistake. I didn't mean for the formatting to go through like that. Fixed it.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:39 pmby Derian
I don't undertand how people get infected with all these crazy IM viruses. It must not ever occur to people not to click on random **** if they don't know what it is.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:37 pmby Mawr
It's like internet Darwinism. Except the computer gets screwed up instead of their genitals.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:56 pmby Sheik
Who doesn't like to click on random ****?
Thanks for the warning Kaibashi Shintaro, although it will not be much help for me because I do not get that many instant messages.
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Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:48 pmby Digoza
One of my friends/one of the people on my buddy list has that pop up every time I start a new convo with them. I clicked it once just to see what the hell it was; and I was like "meh, whatever, not DLin' that" So, yeah, as far as I know, I don't have it.
Posted:
Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:17 pmby Kaibashi Shintaro
Digoza wrote:One of my friends/one of the people on my buddy list has that pop up every time I start a new convo with them. I clicked it once just to see what the hell it was; and I was like "meh, whatever, not DLin' that" So, yeah, as far as I know, I don't have it.
I'll admit, I messed up in this respect. I decided to post this as a warning for anyone else, don't make my mistake. also, for informational purposes, seesm like this thing is rpetty common. I managed to fix it by virtue of System Restore though
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Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:36 pmby Demon
Be sure to double-check though: nowadays most malicious software is designed to embed itself in system restore files.