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| Guest | Windows Live Messenger worm A friend of mine sent me a link via messenger that looked dubious to say the least. I asked him if he had sent it and he said he hadn't, as I suspected. Few weeks later another friend asked me if I had sent him a link and I hadn't it looked like this --> http://<my login name>.found.some.c0o0ol5tuff.info So it looks like I now have this worm. Every so often messenger closes and says it's connect on another computer and to start it up again too. How do you get rid of it? I tried reinstalling messenger and also running impfix3, ad-aware 2007 and scanning with AVG yet it seems to still be on my system. |
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| Junior Member Rep Power: 4 ![]() | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm Did you try using Spybot to find any trojans, worms etc and did you do a hijack this? I did a google on this and it looks like its a malicous link |
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm On May 15, 5:34*am, nataliew <gu...@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
dodgey cookies which I removed. HiJackThis turned up nothing unusual. | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm Greetings Sir Elric, There is no way you have obtained any Messenger worm unless you specifically clicking on the file and told your browser to execute it. Most Messenger worms are rather unsophisticated (in terms of hiding) and you would've seen it on your HiJackThis log (to reference your other post). -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "Sir Elric" <leehogg@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:21fa8b50-60f9-49cd-a2f9-8e8eccd1b071@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm Hello Sir Ethic, if you continue to get the message "You have been signed out because you signed in at another location", this means probably that your Messenger password has been hijacked by the virus you installed accidentally from that website. So, first go and remove the virus by any means. Then, AFTER removing it, I advise you to change your Messenger password so any stolen password will not be able to sign in anymore. To change your Messenger password, go to https://account.live.com/SummaryPage.aspx and click the 'Change' link in the password section. Regards, mynetx "Sir Elric" <leehogg@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:21fa8b50-60f9-49cd-a2f9-8e8eccd1b071@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm On May 15, 11:38*am, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsrepl...@xxxxxx> wrote:
messenger from a friend, well it wasn't sent by him I just thought it had, and it took me to some mobile phone site which I closed. Did I get the worm just from viewing a web page? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm On May 15, 5:48*pm, "mynetx [Messenger Plus!]" <myn...@xxxxxx> wrote:
password too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm Hi, The only way that's possible is if you haven't stayed up-to-date with browser updates (Firefox, IE, doesn't matter) as some of these worms take advantage of exploits from several years ago. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "Sir Elric" <leehogg@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1c7e9bcc-730b-416e-a277-ad6645f1cabf@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows Live Messenger worm On May 17, 11:17*am, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsrepl...@xxxxxx> wrote:
dodgey files so I'm not sure how I got this worm. Good news is I haven't had any more trouble since I ran all the scans and changed the password | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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