ok, i have a new AIM virus. i got this one by clicking a link somebody on my buddylist sent me. it pops up a page says" osama bin laden capture" and asks yes or no to download the video. of course i clicked yes, cuz im an idiot. but now it sends this link to everyone in my buddy list everytime they sign (on without me knowing it,) or untill they infect themselves. id like to fix it and help my friends do the same. thanks

yup i got that too......i jst deleted it though w. the help from the thread "AIM 5.5 VIRUS PLEASE HELP" or something like that

this should help

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101007.htm

yea...i unistalled buddylink through its folder...then deleted the folder.....anything else?

no just go to add remove prog. and delete anything having to do w. buddylinks or PSD tools

anyone know about this:
whenever im on aim.. an away message appears and it says:

new profile http://ugleague.net/aimprofile.scr !

its really annoying..because it pops up every minute..or so. I deleted aim and reinstalled it..and its still doing it. How can i remove this?

Yeah it is a real annoying thing thats going around lately. If you are running an antivirus program such as McAfee or Norton it should automatically pick up the virus and eliminate it. If you don't have one of these then there are probably other solutions to it but i don't have the time to figure it out. I have a friend who is infected with it and I tried to infect myself in order to figure out how to rid myself of it. McAfee Virus Scan automatically detected it and eliminated it before it could be installed. Norton can also do this when you run a virus scan.

The virus is actually a worm. It is the W32/Sdbot.worm.gen virus. You can find information about it at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100454.htm

Im not saying that I am an expert on this stuff but from the reports from the different antivirus programs, this is what I have learned about it.

My daughters PC got this same worm thru AIM !
http://ugleague.net/aimprofile.scr !

It is running Windows ME with all of the security updates and has the latest version of Norton Antivirus installed and still got it.
I removed AIM, ran the Antivirus scan and it said it could not remove some Adware that it found. I removed the Adware with SPYBOT. Then ran antivirus again and it did NOT find anything. I then downloaded the latest version of AIM, reinstalled it and the worm is back! This is affecting a lot of AIM users.

I hope somebody comes up with something soon.

AIM problem http://ugleague.net/aimprofile.scr !

Last night I removed AIM again, ran SPYBOT to get any tracking cookies and Norton WinDoctor to clean up entries from AIM.
Next I downloaded the latest AIM dated 03/15/2004. Installed it and the problem appears to have been corrected.

The link http://ugleague.net/aimprofile.scr!
did not appear in the profile any more last night over a period of 3+ hours.

Good Luck

Another AIM virus within a few months! I found a removal tool for this however: http://www.infestednexus.co.nr/aimprofile.scrFix.zip

That should work just fine!