Hatrack River Forum: Caution -- Freaky AIM virus!!

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

I don't know if this has been posted, but I don't care, it's important enough to be posted again. Do not, under any circumstances, click on a link that randomly comes IMed to you from a buddy, if the text of the message is anything like this:

quote:
Check <this> out... is this you?

The <this> will be a link, and it will look as though it's linking to a .jpg file, but it's a virus! Don't click on it!

If it's too late, and you've clicked, run a virus scan immediately, and go to here. The miracle techie friend I told you about in another thread showed me that link, and it seems to have fixed my AIM.

You have been warned.

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

*wheeze* [Wink]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

[Razz]

Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :

Good thing it doesn't affect Macs, cause Raia's AIM sent it to me and I clicked on it without thinking. [Razz]

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

Yeah, I got it too, and clicked it but then realized something was fishy about 2 seconds later and closed the link. I don't think it had time to infect me, but I did the AIMfix thing just in case.

Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :

I clicked on something just the other night that said, "This was cool, check it out."
'This' was a link, and I assumed my friend wanted to show me pictures of some odd happening.

[Wall Bash]

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

It took all night and a hatrack thread to get rid of that virus. [Smile]

Thanks again, folks who helped me with that. [Wave]

Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :

yeah, the virus is either W32.Allim.A or W32.Allim.B I'm not sure which, but either one can be removed by most anti-virus programs.