MSN virus

Casper · 07-03-2005, 10:12 PM

Look out folks, theres a MSN virus on the loose tonight.

It will send this message:

http: //home.earthlink.net/~gallery10/omg.pif lol! see it! u'll like it

Its a virus...DONT ACCEPT IT by clicking on it.

LuvinmyEB · 07-03-2005, 10:14 PM

Thanks for the heads up Casper.

RPO83 · 07-03-2005, 10:17 PM

Sure is on the loose, anyone know how the hell it infects on MSN?

And as to why a company can't virus scan files uploaded to their servers is beyond me.

rob_o · 07-03-2005, 10:52 PM

OK anything ending in ".pif" DO NOT ACCEPT!

They come as files from your contacts, I just got one titled "Topless in a miniskirt.pif" and "Jennifer Lopez.pif"

smciner1 · 07-03-2005, 10:54 PM

Saw that before, yup DON NOT (tm) accept file!

rob_o · 07-03-2005, 10:55 PM

Also just got one titled "Me on holiday!" so they can be called just about anything really.

FordFan86 · 07-03-2005, 10:57 PM

Was waiting for a warning on this, seen a few AFF members passing it around :S, luckily i'd already had a warning about not opening it passed thru

HOON69 · 07-03-2005, 11:59 PM

so where has this been making its rounds msn where abouts in msn? cause i havent come across it yet?

XR8GRL · 08-03-2005, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HOON69

so where has this been making its rounds msn where abouts in msn? cause i havent come across it yet?

I haven't come across it either.

rob_o · 08-03-2005, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HOON69

so where has this been making its rounds msn where abouts in msn? cause i havent come across it yet?

It comes as file sent from someone on your contact list. They dont send it themselves, it does it automatically.

neb · 08-03-2005, 12:06 AM

i clicked on it earlier tonight... doh. and it sent to other people on my list.. i didnt think anything of it because it came from a friend, and i virus scanned it first to make sure. hope it didn't do anything too bad.

Yagz · 08-03-2005, 12:28 AM

I got it from falkeen, and clicked it, but lucky im running firefox so it asked me to wanna save it, i clicked no.

Pik0 · 08-03-2005, 12:51 AM

yeah i got it sent to be as well, meant to be a pic, but i had never heard of a picture file with that ending so just didnt click it...

M14A-Mclaren · 08-03-2005, 11:26 AM

I read on my anti-virus website that it can come through emule as well.

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...e=WORM_FATSO.A

Venomous · 08-03-2005, 05:43 PM

yea a friend of mines got it also. And it keeps tryin to send it to me so i blocked her lol. Can be called absolutly anything so im not excepting practically anything to comes throught for the time being

champsky · 08-03-2005, 05:49 PM

wha??? i think i might have clicked on something likethat before but im not sure :s

will be on the lookout now though thanks people

Thornie · 08-03-2005, 06:51 PM

that virus has been running rampant for the last couple of weeks i am lucky i havnt dealt with it

needfordspeed · 08-03-2005, 06:57 PM

Yeah I saw that one, thought it might be some link like that tubgirl site so I didn't click it.

rob_o · 08-03-2005, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by needfordspeed

...might be some link like that tubgirl site so I didn't click it.

Come on man, im eating dinner here alright? lol

M14A-Mclaren · 08-03-2005, 06:58 PM

I havnt had a virus in ages, and I got what I consider the best anti-virus on the market (PC-Cillin Internet Security 2005) so hopefully I'm pretty well set up against them.

You'd think MSN would take down the service for a while so the can block the virus spreading or something, like they had to do with the display picture vunerablity.

JTFG · 08-03-2005, 09:25 PM

has anyone got the removal tool from symantec? not that i got it just cos a friend has it and pretty sure there is/was a tool for removing the msn virus.

thanks

Edit: dont worry found it.