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Name: Ben Bartolone
Date: December 1, 2003 at 16:49:50 Pacific
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Recently I had the 'Whoa look what I found CLICK HERE' program on my computer, thanks to my eager clicking finger. Didn't download the worm, everything was fine.

My curiosity now has my AIM profile saying 'I can't believe I found %n's Picture here HAHAHA' with a link to yet another seemingly worm program. Asks you to download it repeatedly, renews the message in my profile every time I start AIM up. I can't find any help on the subject.

Might be the same fix, but 'b.exe' isn't involved this time. Housecall didn't bring anything up.

Any ideas?




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Name: Roberto
Date: December 1, 2003 at 18:14:05 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: iceblue
Date: December 1, 2003 at 18:53:19 Pacific
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2nd item google

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Response Number 3
Name: christa
Date: December 3, 2003 at 20:29:14 Pacific
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i tried to download it...but when i clicked to "run" it...a window saying "javasript runtime error" came up. your help would be greatly appreciated!



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Response Number 4
Name: utvolsalltheway
Date: December 18, 2003 at 17:25:13 Pacific
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push ctrl-alt-del and look for a process called "av.exe" - click it and click "end process" or "end task" depending on your version of windows. the navigate to c:\windows and look for that av.exe file - delete it

now go download spybot and update it - then "check for problems" and "fix selected problems" - reboot and change your AIM profile back to normal

Then spread the word to the geniuses with it still in their profile!

disclaimer: i don't guarantee this will work for everyone - you should all have an updated antivirus client and use that as well



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