Msn Virus

demon8991 · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:36

OMFG i am sooo stupid, got a message from a mate saying ive got a pic of you with a link so i clicked the link and without thinking clicked run and it installed something on my computer, as of yet i havnt seen an effect.

But i want to get rid of this thing anyone had it/know how to get rid of it?

Cant believe i did this im normally so carefull.

Raymond Lin · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:40

Step one - Go give your mate some grieve
Step 2 - Wrong forum
Step 3 - Download Adaware and use a decent Anti Virus.

YoungBlood · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:41

Your "mate" sent you a virus :confused:

surely you have McAfee or something to do a quick scan, but it's proberly nothing. Maybe some joke or something...

demon8991 · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:42

Sorry i didnt explain myself correctly, its one of those automatic chain virus things that automaticaly sends itself to everyone in your contacts without you knowing, he wernt being an arse.

SiriusB · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:52

demon8991 said:
Sorry i didnt explain myself correctly, its one of those automatic chain virus things that automaticaly sends itself to everyone in your contacts without you knowing, he wernt being an arse.

He is an arse for not having adequate virus protection.

SiriusB

david334 · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:52

I know someone who got this the other day all he done was done a system restore and his problem was solved

it even corsed him to get BSOD on startup :eek:

David 334

demon8991 · 5 Oct 2006 at 18:54

System restore hey?

Ill give it ago, you dont lose any saved files with that do you?

basmic · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:01

Uninstall MSN.

Download Ad-Aware and Spybot: Search & Destroy, install them, and download all the updates.

Disable your network connection (temporary), run Ad-Aware first - do a FULL scan, to be on the safe side. Delete anything Ad-Aware finds.

With the network connection still disabled, run Spybot: S&D - delete anything this finds, also.

Go to the Temp folder - C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name here>\Local Settings\Temp. Delete all files in there - write down the names of any which can't be deleted.

Do the same for C:\WINDOWS\Temp.

Reboot, cross your fingers and get NOD32 installed. :cool:

Install MSN as soon as you know all is well.

basmic · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:04

Sent you an email to both [email protected] and [email protected] BTW.

Drazic · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:42

Wouldn't that be add to msn before he run the software to get it gone

The amount of N00BS on a forums i use for my rididng that have gotten this amazes me.

It pretty clear it's a doggy link, the amount of times you get it sent, they way it look then the people your chatting to you it kidna would click.

Dwbreeze1982 · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:45

i got the same thing m8 and i noobishly did the same as you, i think the message was something like, OMFG is that you + Link to virus download

Pho · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:57

What site did it link to? If we know where it came from we may be able to find what you were infected by.

demon8991 · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:59

I aint a noob mate, this is the first virus i have ever had, i just wasnt thinking.

Got other things on my mind atm.

robbiemc · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:05

Drazic said:
Wouldn't that be add to msn before he run the software to get it gone

The amount of N00BS on a forums i use for my rididng that have gotten this amazes me.

It pretty clear it's a doggy link, the amount of times you get it sent, they way it look then the people your chatting to you it kidna would click.

Huh?

LoadsaMoney · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:08

robbiemc said:
Huh?

Same here. :confused:

He must be ****** or summit.

VeNT · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:36

best off rebooting in safe mode before you try and delete it
and they will scan faster that way too

Roduga · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:41

*unplugs cable from PC*

It's a scary world out there.

Tobes · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:56

demon8991 said:
I aint a noob mate

Yes you are. For not having decent antivirus. I got this the other day and clicked it. NOD32 came on and told me it's stopped it and everything is now OK

All I am told it does is message that same message to everyone else on your MSN. IMO there's no point in that so it obviously leaves something else on your PC.

EDIT: BTW system restore will do jack. Hows that going to remove a virus? It's just going to roll back on installed programs.

Scythe · 5 Oct 2006 at 21:00

demon8991 said:
OMFG i am sooo stupid, got a message from a mate saying ive got a pic of you with a link so i clicked the link and without thinking clicked run and it installed something on my computer, as of yet i havnt seen an effect.

But i want to get rid of this thing anyone had it/know how to get rid of it?

Cant believe i did this im normally so carefull.

I did the same thing today too, but didnt download it. It is a .pif file btw.

VeNT · 5 Oct 2006 at 21:04

Tob3z said:
EDIT: BTW system restore will do jack. Hows that going to remove a virus? It's just going to roll back on installed programs.

and any virus worth its salt will install itself there
system restore should be disabled, in 99% of situations nothing beats good backups