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MSN Messenger's New worm

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  • #2
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    thanks for that man, i actually came across this the other day, and clicked on the link, but when the warning came up asking if i wanted to run the file i didnt, i knew there was something up with it.


  • #3
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    haven't gotten it but word passed to the office yday to turn of msn while MS updated their servers.
    no sign of it today.


  • #4
    jonnybadd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭jonnybadd


    Aye i got the message but didnt click the link, someone wanted to be added then the first post being a link to somewhere i didnt know is a tad suspicious.

    I didnt click the link so is there any chance i could have gotten the worm?


  • #5
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    no i doubt it.

    i clicked the link but when i did, security warnings came from everywhere asking me am i sure i want to run it, so i bailed out of there. think im safe though since the file didnt actually run.


  • #6
    Kenny_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭Kenny_D


    You should be ok unless you ran the file which I did. It was a dos file which opened with a picture of topless busty lady. Which then froze screen for a few mins. Ran a number of tools and had it removed in about 30 mins. Norton have a special tool to remove it called fixbropia (for the virus I got anyway). I also then ran ad-aware, spybot, mcafee and trend micros online scan. Didnt do any damage but I'm glad I got rid of it when I did. Others may do more damage


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  • #7
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Damage, sure, but you got a busty lady; surely that evens things out?


  • #8
    pushpop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭pushpop


    I got stung by it on monday. A link to a file called cute.pif came up in exactly the same font and colour as that of the girl who i was talking to, and i clicked it, then my other friends on msn started asking what i just sent them. It knocked out Norton immediately, and the only notification I got that it was spyware came from SpySweeper which told me that new programs had been added to windows startup.

    Check your windows task manager; you may not have gotten rid of it, because I have two running processes called PCsync and CThelper that I can't identify, and I can't actually find them in the /system32 directory which is where SpySweeper says they are.


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