Every minute or so, an away message automatically comes up on my AIM that says "New Pictures http://pictures7.webhop.biz !!!!". I've ran Ad-Ware SE but did not recieve any luck. Does anybody know how to get rid of this? Or have any suggestions? By the way, I haven't clicked the link so I am not positive where it leads to.

hello,there is a file named "friends.scr" on this url,the scr is infected by Backdoor.SdBot.gen(avp) Send suspecied file to me with compressed file.my email:virus@shanguo.com

Any suggestions on how to get rid of it?

Can anyone help me? This is probably the most annoying thing..... ever. Even when I sign off, it comes up every minute and trys to sign on to my name. So that means that every minute it pops up on my screen and I have to X it out..... not fun.

i don't have that problem, and i don't know if this will help, but it is worth a try. whenever i have a problem with spyware, i first look in msconfig (start => run => type "msconfig" => startup), and see what processes are starting up in windows. if that dosent hepl, i then search for files created within a certain amount of time, using search and date, and see if there are any file names i don't recognize, and if there are, i delete them (just be sure you don't need them before you delete them). if the problem still continues, i restore my registry. this is done by going to start and run, and type in, with the space, "scanreg /restore". you should then select the most recent date that the computer was working, without the problem, and restart. if you do not know the date, than select earliest date. you might have to reinstall some programs that you installed since you had the problem (of after the date you selected to restore the registry), but that is a small price to pay for fixing the problem. if the problem still continues after that, and you need to use aim, then the best thing to do is to backup your files to cd's and dvd's, and reformat your computer. just remember, after reformatting, you will need to reinstall all the programs you use, and restore all the files you backed up. let me also say this again, i have not tried this method on my computer, since i do not have this problem, but i have had many other problems with my computer, and so far, it has always worked. let me also say i have windows me, and do not know if the same method of restoring the registry will work on xp, but it is definately worth a try.