MSN virus

[Rakuen Growlithe]

I got a msg from Kodey with two links on msn. Don't use the links. It's a virus. I got infected and so if you on my contact list you'll probably get the msg too.

[anoyomouse]

yeah, i got them

seen it floating around, but it seems really weird.

if you get a link and the person that send it to you goes offline immediately, then it's prolly not a good idea to click on it.

looks like it's gone now tho, haven't had any strange messages lately

[Rakuen Growlithe]

Yeah. It seems to just do its thing and vanish. 0.o Dunno what the point of that is then but hey. I checked my computer with three scans and none found the problem.

[Yukon]

One nice user-friendly proggy I use to find out what strange new viruses aren't being picked by task manager or virus scans is Autoruns. It's free - http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip

[Dracius]

Yea, this is quite annoying too. I've been getting it from quite a bit of people that just dont bother to protect their PC as much as possible. Its usually related to spyware / malware / non-lethal virus..

I'm currently using Spybot Search and Destroy, Avast Anti-Virus (free) and Windows Defender, and I havent really had a problem with infections. A good anti-<threat> removal tool should fix that spamming messages.

[Rakuen Growlithe]

I downloaded Spybot S&D now after the infection. Previously I just had Norton Internet Security and CA Yahoo antispy. But I've only detected about two or three infections in the few months I've had my laptop.