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[SD-Ness]

If I leave my aim on with or without an away message on this away message always comes up:

DON'T CLICK THE LINK

WTF LOOK
http://bestfriends.mehis.info/bestfriends.scr
?!!!??!?

Is anyone familiair with this? Is it spyware? If so, how do I get rid of it?

 

[Rocket Punch]

Virus. Norton Antivirus automatically delete it for me.

 

[SD-Ness]

I tried virusccan, but it reappeared.

 

[ohamsie]

Try lavasoft's ad-aware. It's been pretty good to me. And best of all, it is free!

 

[Lhadatt]

1: STOP USING IE. Get Mozilla Firefox. www.mozilla.org
2: Ad Aware. www.lavasoftusa.com
3: Spybot. www.spybot.info
4, optional: STOP USING OUTLOOK/OUTLOOK EXPRESS. Mozilla Thunderbird for email. www.mozilla.org

Or just get a Mac and you won't have to deal with the majority (i.e. 99.9999%) of viruses and spyware.

 

[dskillzhtown]

1: STOP USING IE. Get Mozilla Firefox. www.mozilla.org
2: Ad Aware. www.lavasoftusa.com
3: Spybot. www.spybot.info
4, optional: STOP USING OUTLOOK/OUTLOOK EXPRESS. Mozilla Thunderbird for email. www.mozilla.org

Or just get a Mac and you won't have to deal with the majority (i.e. 99.9999%) of viruses and spyware.

Just do 2 and 3 and you should be fine. I would also get Norton Internet security and anti-virus.

 

[Lhadatt]

Just do 2 and 3 and you should be fine. I would also get Norton Internet security and anti-virus.

Sorry, but no. Even with the XP SP2 improvements, IE is still really not good for use by anyone unless absolutely necessary. The same goes for any Microsoft mail client except Entourage on the Mac.

Norton Internet Security is a pile of crap. Why bother with it when Firefox has built-in popup blocking?

Most Norton products are bloated and ineffectual. The only one I can recommend is Symantec Anti-virus Corporate Edition, and that costs $$$. Get a firewall (Windows Firewall in XP, ZoneAlarm if not XP) and a better virus checker. Kaspersky, F-Prot, Panda, Trend Micro, Eset NOD32.

Check out this article: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115939,pg,1,00.asp

 

[SD-Ness]

Try lavasoft's ad-aware. It's been pretty good to me. And best of all, it is free!

That was my first resort...didn't work.

1: STOP USING IE. Get Mozilla Firefox. www.mozilla.org
2: Ad Aware. www.lavasoftusa.com
3: Spybot. www.spybot.info
4, optional: STOP USING OUTLOOK/OUTLOOK EXPRESS. Mozilla Thunderbird for email. www.mozilla.org

Or just get a Mac and you won't have to deal with the majority (i.e. 99.9999%) of viruses and spyware.

Yeah I've been using Firefox for about five months now. Adaware I have. Spybot I have. 4, N/A.

 

[Lhadatt]

The only other practical thing I can suggest is get Trillian or GAIM, stop using the normal AIM client.

Or just reinstall Windows. But that's silly.