Messenger Virus Be Ware!

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 3:51 am

Well,I was on my computer and someone I know sent me a link. I opened it and the next think I know its spamming all my contacts. Dont follow the link. Sorry for the inconvenience.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 4:46 am

Which messenger and what link?

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 10:44 am

I guess he's talking about Wippien...?

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 12:04 pm

That's happened to a few of my friends in the past on MSN/Windows Live Messenger.  If the message or link don't look like what the person would normally send you, don't click the link

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posted on March 23rd, 2010, 1:11 pm

Last edited by funnystuffpictures on March 23rd, 2010, 1:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Its for windows live and it starts out with:

foto http :/ / images-v.........................[name of contact its sending it to]

Any suggestions on how to get rid of it? Avg doesnt detect it. So far it hasnt done anything to my pc just messenger.

And Adam C has allready reported my account and blocked me lol.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 3:19 pm

Change your password and you will be fine.  Once inside your account it auto logs in on it's own.  Change your password and they cannot get in, or at least should not be able to.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 3:22 pm

Microsoft Security Essentials cleans it out - even though I didn't think I got it from you, I did - and it just got trashed by MSE 

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 6:35 pm

Switch your anti-virus to Norton. Full, pure protection. Never had any viruses deem sucessful yet.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 7:08 pm

you cant be serious gamer, norton is the worst antivirus, its expensive, slow, consumes system resources like om nom nom, has low detection rates, and gives you no control, doing what it wants.

mcafee is better, but not by much

kaspersky i've heard good things about

avg free used to be good, but then it started taking up more and more system resources with each new version.

i use eset's NOD32, its really good, its cheaper, takes up very little system resources, has high detection rates, and you can wrestle control from it if you're dedicated.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 7:14 pm

a couple of weeks ago I would have argued with you, but it seems that norton has really gone slack. my  McAfee actually caught some adware, that nortion didn't, aswell as a Trojan on someone else's computer i know of.

but a spam link usually has to do with your browser.  if it was an internet link, your browser should have caught it.  if it is just an MSN spam, then I really don'y know what to tell you

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 7:15 pm

tried avira antivir already? free, small and nice^^

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 8:12 pm

mcafee has highger detection rates than norton, it can heal files as well, without deleting. but its slow as molasses

avira i have also heard good things about.

about these links, no antivirus will stop the links themselves, nor will any harm come to your computer from receiving the links. its only if you click on them that trouble begins, then any antivirus should stop them if you have active protection (where your antivirus solution scans everything)

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 8:40 pm

Norton and McAffee are both garbage in my book.  Kapersky is good but I use Comodo.  It has 0 overhead and the firewall has never failed me once.  Best of all, unlike Norton especially, it does not consume system resources like a hog.

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 9:47 pm

Lol 1337 I just uninstalled norton and my startup time has gone down from 1:30 to :20.

also how do I change my password?

posted on March 23rd, 2010, 9:49 pm

Should be the first step when you start up WLM