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MSN Bug/Virus
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:52 am
by Drakuul
Last night I got a message from a source on my buddy list. I opened the link and it sent exactly the same message to everyone on my list who were online.
The text of the message is as follows
URL changed slightlyto avoid problems
I would have posted this sooner, but it was 3am and my brain wasn't working properly. Apologies to anyone that got that from me.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:54 am
by Talwin Hawkins
yep been done myself. I was gonna have a word with a certain someone as well
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:50 pm
by teleri
As this effects only MSN users who use the MSN client (: I would recommend using another client. Trillian, GAIM, or any of the other ones.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:15 pm
by srn
teleri wrote:As this effects only MSN users who use the MSN client (: I would recommend using another client. Trillian, GAIM, or any of the other ones.
I can heartily recommend GAIM.
It was pretty funny under linux, I must say - "Do you want to save this 'BIN' file somewhere?'
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:09 pm
by Istahire
Well, I loved Trillian so much I actually paid for the thing
May need a little skinning, though...
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:41 pm
by Arieanne
Uh-oh..
I got it from Drak and my MSN sent it ON ITS OWN to everybody from my MSN contact book...
Sorry, if any of you got it from me
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:43 pm
by Talwin Hawkins
*eyes arieanne*
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:44 pm
by Arieanne
Talwin Hawkins wrote:*eyes arieanne*
Ok, ok, shoot me...
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:46 pm
by Drakuul
Well, I got it from someone who wasn't at home and wasn't logged in
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 4:20 pm
by Arcsylver
This is the reason I don't use any MSN product. To insecure with there stuff to prevent such overrides mich like the Outlook client for email.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 5:35 pm
by Talwin Hawkins
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-D ... dl&tag=but
Use spy bot to remove it. the file is called hellz little spy. remove it and your fine.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:25 pm
by Spartan
I had this too only it showed up as wfirewall7.exe
I ran all the anti-virus programs and non of them caught it.
It actualled fucked with my norton and turned off a bunch of functions on it.
To get rid of it I had to do a system restore t a few days ago, seemed to work.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:13 pm
by FireFly
A spy sweeper seemed to work also