Comments on: AOL Instant Messenger virus

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:04:03 +0000

I have a virus on my aol instant messenger screen name. I need help. Everytime i log on a message pops up and sends it to all of my buddylist friends. It says somthing to the effect of. Hey can i use this picture of us on my myspace? and people asumeing its a picture of us open it and it gives them i viurs. I got this virus from a friend of mine and i thought we had gotten rid of it when we got our computer fixed. NO I tried getting a new screen name but it still keeps sending this message! i’m afraid i’m going to mess up someone eleses computer! How can i get this virus to LEAVE???

By: answer me plz

answer me plz — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:44:50 +0000

i have a problem i try 2 get a icon for AIM and ever time i click on it it says u have instert a hyperlink that ur clinek does not support how do i delete that?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:26:43 +0000

I have recently recieved the aol instant messenger virus for the second time and had to reload my windows due to the virus corrupting my internet explorer. The person who created the virus is changing the virus intead of saying i can t believe i found this picture or i found this picture it has more variations like check out my new pics, and hey i got new pics, from what i can tell the virus inserts itself into ur computer when u click on the link and it seems to add files that are traditionally not uninstalled when you normally uninstall it on the uninstall portion of ur add or remove software wizard under control panel the only way that i know to fix this problem for certain deals with reloading which leads me to believe this virus might alter the registry or create hidden files normally not found by traditional methods, i do know that there is a way to find out what the culprit is by simply clickin on ctrl alt del and pullin up ur task manager and look at the processes and see which of the non basic functions is pulling cpu usage from ur computer i cannot remember the name but it sounded something like this when i saw gruaa.exe or something similar to it, just tryin to inform as many people as possible about the new changes to it, and always remember to ask about links before u click on them. If a clicked on link seems to not do anything then most likely u are already infected like i recently found, the new version of it seems to be a bit more malicious than the previous the previous was just annoying the new one is just sick and seems to be someones attempt to screw alot of people over. So best piece of advise to all of you is be very careful on any messenger and try avoiding pictures on websites unless you know for a fact it is a known good website.

By: Rach

Rach — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:24:11 +0000

i accidentally clicked on a link and i think it gave me a virus…whenever i am signed on it will put up and away message that says “OMG LOOK http://www.4photo.net/picts.php?newyears !!!” about every 5-10 minutes or so…i dont even tell it to make me away..also if i am signed off and my computer is on it will sign me on and instantly put up the same message…somebody please please please help me!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:30:20 +0000

I also just got the “NEW PICTURES FROM THE BEACH http://home.comcast.net/~recooney/pictures.pif !!” virus…HELP!!! Please send detailed instructions to get rid of this thing….I am not computer savy at all, so I need all the help I can get. I have signed off on AOL IM and made sure that I turned off the automatic sign in, otherwise it would keep signing me in…it keeps popping up saying “The AIM hyperlink you’ve clicked on may require you to be online to work. Please log in first.”

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:00:25 +0000

yeah, i got that NEW BEACH PICS!!! virus. i have no clue how to get rid of it, if someone could give me step by step instructions, i would appreciate that so much. ugh i really hate this :(

help.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:03:45 +0000

This virus has pretty much messed up my entire computer. I have a brand new computer, with virus protection, before even doing anything on it i got this and now my entire computer will crash when i try to boot up. Help?

By: GilletteSERIES5

GilletteSERIES5 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:50:26 +0000

Ok, so i think this is a NEW aim virus. The text reads “I look so funny in these pictures” or something close to that, and then there is a url underneath it. if you are stupid, like me, you will click it and save the file. opening it will start the virus and send the same message to all of the people online in you buddylist. its a pretty harsh virus that will freeze your computer and not let you do anything really, but safe mode still works. if there is anyone who comes across this and knows a good solution to getting rid of this virus PLEASE leave a post. im trying my hardest to get rid of it myself, but im not having the best of luck right now. i dont think Norton antivirus will detect it. if you come across this virus from someone’s im just close the box. Watch out for this one.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Most instructions for removing this virus tell you to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, but every time I do, the computer freezes. Is there a way to get around this?

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

your new virus, or not so knew I guess is getting to be a pain! Its starting to stop my emails for no reason! the biggest problem is McGaff! anybody that sets up virus protection for large companys well tell you its junk. The things or attachments I,m trying to send I have sent before they are stored on the computer and have been for years now your system is telling me they have a virus and I scanned them with Norton[the best] and there is no virus. what do we do to stop this???