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AIM virus: how do i look

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:08 am
by Linksquest
Ok... i was on AIM the other day... and one of my friends was incessently saying " how do i look" and then there was a hyperlink to click that would lead to a page. The site looked suspicious, but stupidly i clicked the link anyways. My virus scanner detected a virus. My friend had no idea she was sending those mssges " how do i look" im not sure if this is an old or new virus... but I immediatley logged off AIM to prevent sending viruses to the rest of the people on my budd list.

BEWARE: " how do i look"

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:27 am
by Locke
Hee hee, I actually clicked it but Firefox saved me when It tried to download.

Moral? Get Firefox!

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:27 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
... you do know aim viruses dont work with trillian....

and why are you so gullbile to click those? check the file extension of the url next time as well

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:29 am
by Locke
That was before Trillian's time....sadly.

Let's just say I like learning things the hard way.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:57 pm
by Slater
I don't get it. I hate Trillian and prefer AIM (hate AIM but not as much as Trillian), but never ever get these virus things via my IM services that everyone's claiming to be such a big problem...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:10 pm
by ZiP
I've heard about the "how do I look" thing. Let's put it this way: .exe is not a picture extension folks. ;)