Argh, a virus.

**Shaun** · December 08, 2006, 05:40 PM

I seem to have gotten a virus, unfortunetly. It has infected Windows live messenger, it takes over and sends spam to all my contacts, I dont know if it does anything worse than just send them spam though. How can I get rid if it?

**freekyjason** · December 08, 2006, 06:24 PM

there was a post made about that virus here before. not sure what it was called. try an online scan from symantec.

also google for live messenger virus, cause im sure there was a tool to remove it somewhere.

Code:

http://www.uwsp.edu/it/resnet/News/News06-07/100506LiveMessengerVirus.htm

might be it? either way look around cause its pretty common to get a virus through a microsoft product

**Ronin** · December 11, 2006, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by freekyjason

there was a post made about that virus here before. not sure what it was called. try an online scan from symantec.

also google for live messenger virus, cause im sure there was a tool to remove it somewhere.

Code:

http://www.uwsp.edu/it/resnet/News/News06-07/100506LiveMessengerVirus.htm

might be it? either way look around cause its pretty common to get a virus through a microsoft product

Some might argue microsoft products are the virus.

**freekyjason** · December 11, 2006, 10:22 AM

hah, yes well i would tend to agree that microsoft products have virus-like qualities

**SirLoinalot** · December 11, 2006, 10:55 AM

What firewall/Antivirus are you running? You'll want to make sure all of your software is up to date.

Download Avast antivirus free edition, update and run it. Once that's done download an antispyware piece of software such as spycatcher (although this particular piece of software is quite aggressive) run that and bin anything found that looks suspicious.

Post back with your results

**PyrrhusIV** · December 11, 2006, 04:23 PM

Stop looking at pr0n through Internet Explorer 7.

**Shaun** · December 11, 2006, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by PyrrhusIV

Stop looking at pr0n through Internet Explorer 7.

Im a single male, what do you expect me to NOT look at pr0n? And I got it through MSN, and I am a firefox man not an internet explorer guy.

**Captain Arrrgh!** · December 11, 2006, 05:34 PM

Arrrrrghh, tis a dark day indeed when shingle gafs can no loonger patrol the woild woid web fer pr0n, so's tis.
When the captain 'an 'is crew ur aboord tha 'Ruddy Waif', alls we 'ave is each other fer companionship, so's we doo. Arrrrgghh. Talk about virooses!

**Vanquisher** · December 11, 2006, 05:41 PM

... Erm... anyway you should just run a load of scans i'm sure the current software should be able to recognise this virus. I recommend avast antivirus (aforementioned), and spysweeper is the best anti-spyware program (you can get a 2 week trial). I also recommend downloading Ad-aware personal for it's fantastic anti ad-ware scan (do this first i say

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**Captain Arrrgh!** · December 11, 2006, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Vanquisher

... Erm... anyway you should just run a load of scans i'm sure the current software should be able to recognise this virus. I recommend avast antivirus (aforementioned), and spysweeper is the best anti-spyware program (you can get a 2 week trial). I also recommend downloading Ad-aware personal for it's fantastic anti ad-ware scan (do this first i say

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Har har! "Avast" antiveerus be the best, accordin' ta tha Captain, fer obvious reasons!!! Arrrgh!

**PyrrhusIV** · December 11, 2006, 07:17 PM

Im a single male, what do you expect me to NOT look at pr0n?

All I said was don't check it out on IE 7, besides, I like the graphical capabilities of firefox.....

Anyways, scan time...

**Shaun** · December 12, 2006, 02:48 PM

Im doing all the scans for viruses, adware, trojans etc that I can, but the bastard keeps coming back. About half the viruses in my vault must be that same virus, I keep finding it in the same place. There must be another program initializing the install, or maybe MSN itself is infect, I will delete MSN and reinstall it.

**SirLoinalot** · December 14, 2006, 07:24 AM

Start > Run. Type in 'msconfig' and go to the startup tab. Disable anything that looks suspicious or you just plain don't want to start when you boot your PC. Restart. Does the virus Show?

Also, what is the name of the virus that keeps popping up?

**Shaun** · December 14, 2006, 09:56 AM

Thanks, but I think I got it deleted, there was this icon that showed up in tool bar just before the virus would hit, it was the visual basic sign, but then I found a visual basic program or rather a virus disguised as VB then deleted it, so I hope its gone. The program that keep getting caught was called "tel.exe", I had a heap of them, from months back as well though.