MSN Bug/Virus

Drakuul · Post by **Drakuul** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:52 am

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

ROFL is this you?

pictures.tetes4friends.com/pictures.php?email=XXXXXXX@hotmail.com

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.

Talwin Hawkins · Post by **Talwin Hawkins** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:54 am

yep been done myself. I was gonna have a word with a certain someone as well

teleri · Post by **teleri** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:50 pm

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.

srn · Post by **srn** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:15 pm

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?'

Istahire · Post by **Istahire** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:09 pm

Well, I loved Trillian so much I actually paid for the thing

May need a little skinning, though...

Arieanne · Post by **Arieanne** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:41 pm

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

Talwin Hawkins · Post by **Talwin Hawkins** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:43 pm

*eyes arieanne*

Arieanne · Post by **Arieanne** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:44 pm

Talwin Hawkins wrote:*eyes arieanne*

Ok, ok, shoot me...

Drakuul · Post by **Drakuul** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:46 pm

Well, I got it from someone who wasn't at home and wasn't logged in

Arcsylver · Post by **Arcsylver** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:20 pm

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.

Talwin Hawkins · Post by **Talwin Hawkins** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:35 pm

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.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:25 pm

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.

FireFly · Post by **FireFly** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:13 pm

A spy sweeper seemed to work also