*WARNING* MSN Live Messenger Virus

[GPXRAH]

We have just received a virus from Live messenger . I received a file from one of my contacts which said she had a photo for me to have a look at. I opened it and crash went the computer. Luckily it looks like deleting off MSN has got rid of it. Just be careful what you open before opening it.

[Mel]

yeah I got that one a while back it's a bastard cuz then it sends itself to all your friends too and cuz I'm such a nice, trustworthy person ( ) they all stupidly opened it, as I did... suckers. The free AVG anti-virus software cleared it up for me in the end

[mick_dundee]

You're just trying to get us to believe you have friends aren't you Mel?

[mike-s]

http://download.drweb.com/drweb+cureit/ free, a 6ish meg download and its a single file antivirus program that doesnt require installation to run.

[GPXRAH]

AVG Free didn't pick anything up on ours but all is good now.

[Mel]

You're just trying to get us to believe you have friends aren't you Mel?

Did it work?

I downloaded the AVG thingie after I got the virus and it deleted it... and several others from my puter

[Mojo67]

Yeah Neka sent me the bastard too. Disease ridden he is.

[Neka79]

i didnt mean it..im stuffed if i kno where i got it from....

[I-K]

i didnt mean it..im stuffed if i kno where i got it from....

Might not be the same piece of malware... there are a bajillion of them out there that vector in via MSN alone. Remarkably, though, Trend Micro's virus database doesn't list any MSN-borne malware that does anything truly nasty, like install a rootkit, log keystrokes or zombie your computer...

[Strika]

Just a quick question, what's MSN live messenger do?

[mike-s]

its a bloated peice of malwa... erm software. i think "windows live" is just the latest version of windows msn. added features and crap that half the users will never use or even know about.

[Neka79]

its a bloated peice of malwa... erm software. i think "windows live" is just the latest version of windows msn. added features and crap that half the users will never use or even know about.

nor care about, nor wanted...

[mike-s]

that too.