MSN Virus Warning!

action9000 · **on:** March 04, 2008, 08:04:12 PM

If you come across anything like this being sent to you while you're on MSN:

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hey , it's really your image ? http://msn.farvista.net/viewimage.php?=youremail@hotmail.com

PLEASE Do NOT click the link in your MSN window! It is a virus!
(Note: clicking the link above in this post will not give you the virus - I modified its location to a nonexistant page.)

Petrie. · **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2008, 08:39:24 PM

Note taken.

Kor · **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2008, 09:02:56 PM

Thanks for the warning.

Coyote_A · **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2008, 07:39:15 AM

Thanks, action9000, i'll remember that.

Clawandfang · **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2008, 12:14:50 PM

Thanks, I hope you didn't find out the hard way...

action9000 · **Reply #5 on:** March 05, 2008, 01:18:03 PM

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Thanks, I hope you didn't find out the hard way...

I kind of did but I was able to get the virus removed right away with no difficulty.

Mumbling · **Reply #6 on:** March 05, 2008, 01:21:18 PM

Thanks for the warning.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #7 on:** March 05, 2008, 04:36:06 PM

I got that virus.......for about 5 seconds. Once I clicked on it, AVG popped up telling me that I had just been infected and it automatically deleted the file. I'm not afraid of viruses, spyware, or malware. I'm mainly afraid of adware, since I have very little protection against it. Still, if I'm infected with something especially nasty, I just have to spend 2 hours formatting the thing and restoring all of my files. Such computer worries only make you live shorter.

Chiletrek · **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2008, 11:44:44 PM

Hello:
Sorry for the late reply, but thanks... I'll have that one noted just in case

. I remember sometime ago I wss almost infected by something similar, that's why I alwayd asks the contact for every file they wanted me to send and I tell always before I send a file or a link myself.