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virus from aim away message
Name: andone1o Date: September 7, 2004 at 17:07:38 Pacific OS: Dell CPU/Ram: 37.2
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i think i got this virus from clicking on an away message... it comes up on AVG as Collected.AE and it wont get off my hard drive by AVG.. i also am randomly sent to a site:
http://www.affoundation.org/ind.html
i dont know if that has a connection.. but does anyone know how to manually delete it in safe mode or something??
Name: cactusbob21455 Date: September 10, 2004 at 12:13:59 Pacific
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Did you figure out a cure? I've got the same thing and I don't see anything or anybody out there to help.
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Response Number 2
Name: andone1o Date: September 10, 2004 at 15:18:08 Pacific
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nope, not yet. it just won't go away.
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Response Number 3
Name: horsegal468 Date: September 10, 2004 at 16:02:58 Pacific
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i have leik the same thing that happened to me. I clicked on an away message and i got the virus and now its at the point where an away mesage pops up on my AIM without me even setting it to go away! its so damn annoying do you think itll like fase out eventually or something? if u get ne new info on this plz post it asap!!
Kim
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Response Number 4
Name: shaun Date: September 12, 2004 at 23:01:45 Pacific
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i got this far... http://forums.thatcomputerguy.us/index.php?showtopic=6224&view=findpost&p=39136
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Response Number 5
Name: takemeaway Date: September 15, 2004 at 08:49:26 Pacific
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I had mine, and saw a lot of others get cleaned at bleping computer.
Name: sonjica Date: September 15, 2004 at 09:43:36 Pacific
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I clicked on a zip file and have had a flood of many different kinds of viruses. I have been able to get rid of some but others are found that can't be fixed like Collected.AE (trojan horse). It also has taken over IE and it seems to be using my connection. I have searched around but haven't seen much on it, at least anything clear cut and I have tried at least 10 types of AV programs to no avail. HELP
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Response Number 7
Name: Lindsey Date: September 15, 2004 at 12:08:55 Pacific
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I had this pain-in-the-behind virus (collected.ae) and finally, (after many hours and anti-virus programs that didn't work) found a sure-fire way to get rid of it. Do a Google search on "aim virus" and you'll see a little utility called "aimfix"...I think some guy named Loden wrote it (bless him)...it works to remove every known AIM virus and it's a tiny little utility that took me 5 secods to download. I got the virus by clicking on an AIM away message. Anyway, just run "aimfix" in Windows "safe mode" and your troubles will be over. Good luck!
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