A virus murderd my computer

[MissBehavior]

Originally Posted by Chewy

do you always click links from anonymous people that you dont know

Yeah that's the thing though...It's NOT coming from people you don't know...It's sent through your MSN list if you click on the link, so you'll be getting it from your friends. I got it sent 4 times on Sunday alone, and I've probably had it sent like, a dozen times in the last month from various people.

*.PIF'S ARE BAD, PEOPLE!

[MissBehavior]

Originally Posted by Grapes

I bit on it.. wasn't really thinking, was just like "oh, it's from cubed, whatever".

Shit got all screwey, computer shut down... I started it up again and things seemed fine. Spent the next couple of hours finding an update to get rid of it. Got rid of it.

The end?

PWND!

But we still love you Dave. :)

[impure]

Originally Posted by MissBehavior

Yeah that's the thing though...It's NOT coming from people you don't know...It's sent through your MSN list if you click on the link, so you'll be getting it from your friends. I got it sent 4 times on Sunday alone, and I've probably had it sent like, a dozen times in the last month from various people.

*.PIF'S ARE BAD, PEOPLE!

i got the same thing several times.
i will no longer accept files unless the person sending them tells me they're sending a file now.

[ty_guy]

Originally Posted by Grapes

I bit on it.. wasn't really thinking, was just like "oh, it's from cubed, whatever".

Shit got all screwey, computer shut down... I started it up again and things seemed fine. Spent the next couple of hours finding an update to get rid of it. Got rid of it.

The end?

hmm mine looked/ seemed sorta fine, things were still sorta messed. umm you may want to run a full computer scan, twice. the things that got loaded were stuff like "PChelper.exe, HotkeysSVC.exe", and there was another one. you might want to check for them. i found they loaded up every time the computer was rebooted and still haven't totally destroyed the links to everything it had.

good luck.

[Grapes]

PWND!

But we still love you Dave.

Oh shut up.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by MissBehavior

Let me add: NEVER click on anything that is a *.pif file. Those are 9/10 times going to be a virus of some sort.

I've clicked countless ones and never had a problem.

You should too.

[Apple Jaxx]

Originally Posted by ty_guy

had my mom help me out cause she sorta works with computer. turned out there was 13 Trojans on this old tower. she did some weird thing in MS-DOS and deleted the viruses from there.

HAHAAAAAAAAA! Mommy had to help you?! Did ya get milk and cookies too!!!

Had to razz ya on that one!

[MissBehavior]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Oh shut up.

*pets*