** VIRUS ALERT **

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:15 pm

Wouldn't you just like to ring their necks

Thanks for the heads up

Post by **steven** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:20 pm

Or see the result of mixing those virusmaker face with a round shovel

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:19 pm

This brings up an interesting point, do anti-viruses like McPhee and Norton scan MSN Messenger

I can't recall off hand.

Post by **steven** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:01 pm

it's not the same thing,cause it's a direct files transfert from your msn buddy!

Post by **Bobber** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:34 am

Well I hope everyone recovered from this one. I managed to clean my machine....I think....and it seems to be working fine now. Here is what I did.

1) Went into Settings, Control Panel, Remove Software and removed all software that I was not aware I had on there. This includes tool bars and even those I had no idea what they were.

2) Ran Ad-Aware SE Personal available from Lavasoft (It's free) and removed everything it found.

3) Ran Spybot - Search & Destroy and removed everything it found.
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

4) Ran McAffee Virus Scan and it did not find anything.

5) Removed all instances from my firewall and re-synchronized with those programs that I know need to connect outside.

Re-booted, and all seemed to be OK after that.

I have not tried the tool that CCB mentioned, but perhpas I'll look into it as well.....just to make sure.

Post by **scttsmpsn** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:42 pm

The best solution is to actually take your windows pc; hook it up to your tow hitch and tow it down to your nearest Mac dealer. They will see you coming and put you on a nice virus free Mac. Virtually no viruses for the Mac. Plus there is a list of other reasons why the world should actually go Mac!

Cheers,

Scott