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« on: November 14, 2003, 07:31:22 pm »
I posted this on the other board as well.  I wanna give you all a heads up.
There is a virus going around that's being passed through instant messenger. If you see a link in your buddies info that says "woaaa...look what i found, click here" and nothing else is in the box, DO NOT CLICK! I fell for it today and it took over my info and I lost my buddy list and away messages. Uninstalling and redownloading AIM will not work. I do not know the fix to this virus, so if anyone does please post and help out people who have the virus. thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2003, 08:33:03 pm »
yikes that sucks! people are lame!
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2003, 05:15:51 am »
I don't know if it'll help getting rid of that virus you have, but you could try to install Avast
( go to this page and pick one )
I had virusses too, and that's what Pete (Logikal X) recommended to me.
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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2003, 08:03:40 am »
thanks for the warning![/img][/b]
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2003, 09:09:26 am »
yeah be careful guys, i know a ton of ppl who have it.. and its really easy to just click on links like that without really thinking about it. but its definately a virus. :?
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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2003, 10:32:41 am »
Quote from: "Gina"
and its really easy to just click on links like that without really thinking about it

I'm the queen of mindless link clicking!  
Thanks Si, I'll give it a try if the program i have doesn't catch it.
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2003, 04:28:01 pm »
Herre's something I've noticed...

Porno bot's on AIM will come read your subprofile..Leading to their screen name being left on the list of people who have viewed your profile, Example: "Supersexysteph45" and then you click their name to IM them and if you read their profile, it looks like they have a subprofile...But it's text that they've linked to their site,  so it could be easy to fake:

Subprofile: Click To Continue

See?

Plus people do that kind of thing on message boards where it looks something like this:

http://www.LinkinPark.com

Ya see, you think your clicking to go to LP's site, but in reality it is NESSAholics forums...

People are sad.
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2003, 05:44:54 pm »
lol...Today I flipped out on one of my friends because it was a virus and I clicked it. thank god for norton and it picked it up. lol now I feel bad.
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Re: AIM Virus
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2003, 06:05:04 pm »
Quote from: "Dancernl"
I posted this on the other board as well.  I wanna give you all a heads up.
There is a virus going around that's being passed through instant messenger. If you see a link in your buddies info that says "woaaa...look what i found, click here" and nothing else is in the box, DO NOT CLICK! I fell for it today and it took over my info and I lost my buddy list and away messages. Uninstalling and redownloading AIM will not work. I do not know the fix to this virus, so if anyone does please post and help out people who have the virus. thanks!


hmmm...... just clicking on a link cannot give you a virus. There has to be something else going on there......
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2003, 06:11:48 pm »
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Quote from: "Dancernl"
I posted this on the other board as well.  I wanna give you all a heads up.
There is a virus going around that's being passed through instant messenger. If you see a link in your buddies info that says "woaaa...look what i found, click here" and nothing else is in the box, DO NOT CLICK! I fell for it today and it took over my info and I lost my buddy list and away messages. Uninstalling and redownloading AIM will not work. I do not know the fix to this virus, so if anyone does please post and help out people who have the virus. thanks!


hmmm...... just clicking on a link cannot give you a virus. There has to be something else going on there......



you click on the link...and one of those download boxes pops up. Then it gives you a really hard time saying you need to click the box to see it. It's really hard to unclick out of the box then. But you can click the link if you want to. Just don't click YES on the security box.
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2003, 08:12:19 pm »
Quote from: "Grakthis"
Quote from: "Dancernl"
I posted this on the other board as well.  I wanna give you all a heads up.
There is a virus going around that's being passed through instant messenger. If you see a link in your buddies info that says "woaaa...look what i found, click here" and nothing else is in the box, DO NOT CLICK! I fell for it today and it took over my info and I lost my buddy list and away messages. Uninstalling and redownloading AIM will not work. I do not know the fix to this virus, so if anyone does please post and help out people who have the virus. thanks!


hmmm...... just clicking on a link cannot give you a virus. There has to be something else going on there......

you're right, it was spyware.  You just have to click control alt delete and end the task.  It's usually a letter or number followed by .exe, in my case it was B.exe  all fixed now though!
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Re: AIM Virus
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2003, 07:56:26 am »
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hmmm...... just clicking on a link cannot give you a virus. There has to be something else going on there......

you're right, it was spyware.  You just have to click control alt delete and end the task.  It's usually a letter or number followed by .exe, in my case it was B.exe  all fixed now though![/quote]

Ah. Makes more sense now.  Yeah, if you click YES to a download box or a permissions box you are asking for trouble unless you know EXACTLY what you are downloading/installing.

Even if I get a non-descript email from a friend that says "haha, this is sooo funny" and has a download on it, I NEVER download it.  Unless it has something in the e-mail that shows me that this e-mail was actually composed by my friend.... it's too easy for a virus to compose and e-mail and send itself out.

Good universal advice when dealing with the internet.
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« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2003, 08:44:00 am »
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Ah. Makes more sense now.  Yeah, if you click YES to a download box or a permissions box you are asking for trouble unless you know EXACTLY what you are downloading/installing.

Even if I get a non-descript email from a friend that says "haha, this is sooo funny" and has a download on it, I NEVER download it.  Unless it has something in the e-mail that shows me that this e-mail was actually composed by my friend.... it's too easy for a virus to compose and e-mail and send itself out.

Good universal advice when dealing with the internet.

well the rediculous thing is that when i clicked no it wouldn't stop.  I got a box that said "download incomplete, must click yes to cometinue" and there was no x-out button on the top.  It was such a pain.
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2003, 12:26:29 pm »
Woah I randomly looked in my AIM profile and I see.. WOAH look what I found click here..

I was like OMG.

I deleted it.
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2003, 06:11:36 pm »
I just got an accept message from basketbuttplayer with that woooaa look what I found. I mean the basketbuttplayer was bad enough to know not to click it.

But I did remember seeing this so thanks.
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