Great. This computer has the AIM virus.

[The WOOO Meister]

Which, in turn, means it has a fuckload and a half of trojans and other malware.

I ran McAfee and it killed numerous trojans.
I downloaded AIMFix, and it killed something (or so it claims).
I ran AdAware and all it found was benign shit.
I ran Spybot, but was unable to update it. That tells me that I probably still have some shit, since often viruses and shit will disallow virus scanners and the likes from updating.

I'm running everything until it comes up clean, and then I run it again to double-check.

I don't know if I'll even be able to figure out if I got all of the shit. I'm afraid I'll have to reformat this computer... which would mean my brother will kill me. :(

[FaKToR]

Or you chose a bad server to update spybot from. Do a panda scan at www.pandasoftware.com

[The WOOO Meister]

Thanks, I'll do that.

[Rob_F]

There's a virus you can get from AIM? Good thing I don't use it =/

[Milkman Dan]

There's a virus you can get from AIM? Good thing I don't use it =/
You mean good thing nobody wants to talk to you outside of IRC and forums? ;)

[siddy]

Make sure to run adaware/spybot in safemode.

[Mafia Leader]

I'm glad I've never used AIM in my life.

[Milkman Dan]

The only AIM virus I know is that lame BuddyPic one that injects itself into your profile...Oh, wait. There's that one that sends that virus address to people. Do you have that one?

[Krispy Joe]

I almost got one last night. Some gy I havent talked to for like a eyar sneds me a message that says "check out my pic!" and then it has a link, but the link was like mypic.exe and I was like "lol nice try!"

[IchWarriorMkII]

I almost got one last night. Some gy I havent talked to for like a eyar sneds me a message that says "check out my pic!" and then it has a link, but the link was like mypic.exe and I was like "lol nice try!"



Thats what WOOO had. If I wasn't in bed the time he sent that, I would have surely clicked it to get a glimpse of his rugged manbod.

[Rob_F]

You mean good thing nobody wants to talk to you outside of IRC and forums? ;)

No, I use MSN for talking to people. The only person on my AIM list is Captain Colon... meh.

[Captain Colon]

I can'tt connect to msn anymore :confused:

[Krispy Joe]

WTF.. something is seriously fucked with my comp. I o away for an hour and I come back and the screen is all fucked up, but the monitor hadn't been changed at all, and I restarted and it was fine. :confused:

[Captain Colon]

overheating or smt probably

[Lord Kelvin]

Hmm, I knew that AIM always had all sorts of spyware that they try to install on your comp, but viruses? That's new to me.

[kroner]

I almost got one last night. Some gy I havent talked to for like a eyar sneds me a message that says "check out my pic!" and then it has a link, but the link was like mypic.exe and I was like "lol nice try!"

That's the one. I clicked on it without thinking, and then it sent the address to everyone on my buddy list that was online. I'm the one who sent it to WOOO.

[IchWarriorMkII]

That's the one. I clicked on it without thinking, and then it sent the address to everyone on my buddy list that was online. I'm the one who sent it to WOOO.


Ha, Owned.;)

[kroner]

Ha, Owned.;)

I think he's reformatting his computer because he hasn't been online since. I'm almost completely sure he's pissed at me...

[Chris R]

WOOO, I haven't gotten any attempts since last night, so I believe it worked.

[The WOOO Meister]

No, I didn't reformat. I just spent about seven hours triple- and quadruple-checking all of the above-mentioned programs with any variations I could think of to do my best to clean this computer of shit.

[The WOOO Meister]

OK, this is the only thing left unexplained. It only happens when I'm running the Panda scan, and when I click OK it automatically makes the scan end and say there were no viruses detected.

Edit: And I just noticed--it always happens on the WC3 worldedit.exe.

[CheeseSteakJim]

That's the one. I clicked on it without thinking, and then it sent the address to everyone on my buddy list that was online. I'm the one who sent it to WOOO.
You never IMed me. Good thing you hate me and never added me to your list.









Should I be glad, or just insulted? :confused:

[The WOOO Meister]

It feared your awesomeness.

[Gopats]

looks like that guy in the attachment is looking at some hot PC pron

also try Kaspersky

[Kak]

AIM itself is a virus

[waktasz]

avg antivirus + spyware doctor for the win.

antivirus is for nubs anyway, I don't have any.

[vecdran]

I browse the internet unprotected, fear my manliness!

Four years and still no computer killing viruses, yar.