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Name: Heather
Date: October 23, 2002 at 18:32:19 Pacific
OS: Win98
CPU/Ram: 63.0MB
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My friend was sent an image in AIM through direct connection ... she saved this image, and tried to open it, but the image could not be shown. It then caused all of her image files to add .VBS to the file extension... (example:Shytransformation.jpg.vbs)
And when opening Program Files it gives this error message:
Warning
Modifying the contents of this folder may cause your programs to stop working correctly.
To add or remove programs click Start, point to settings, click control panel, and then click Add/Remove Programs.
Select an item to view its description.
Is this caused by the love bug virus? is there anything that she can do to correct it? Thanks.



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Name: twysted
Date: October 23, 2002 at 20:19:56 Pacific
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Check out this page.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36119,00.html
And good luck!


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Name: DBPowerWCRulez
Date: October 25, 2002 at 22:45:25 Pacific
Reply:

the extra in end of filename very dangerous can destory on your puter..

like this:
filename.jpg.vbs = DANGER! (virus or trojan)
filename.jpg = SAFE :) (clean version)


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