Thread: Man has taken to the skies, but not like this

I had one once, but my virus program removed it. I think Twin's suggestion should work. Just make sure you copy whoever's contact information you still want so you can re-add them later.

It failed. So...

I won't use Messenger on that system anymore.

I don't suppose you can enlighten us as to where it came from, or better yet, its name?

Originally Posted by Nusentinsaino

msn sucks.

Why bother saying that?

If he wanted random stupid shit I'm sure he'd have posted it somewhere else.

I had one a few months ago....Ask Alan...I sent him a porn link that said check out this cool website. Had he been an idiot and clicked then he would have been hosed...

Anyways....I had to back up my stuff, reformat and reinstall windows...was the only way to totally remove it.

Originally Posted by The Reaper

I don't suppose you can enlighten us as to where it came from, or better yet, its name?

It came as an IM with an attachment from a friend with the message 'Wanna see my vacation pics?'

I did. I got boned.

I don't know the worm's name, though.

Sounds like the W32.IRCBot worm.

W32/IRCBot-XL Worm (Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.acd), Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.acd - Sophos security analysis

A back door type. Those are really bad. Don't do anything on your computer that has any value or can be stolen. (And don't type in any passwords)

Originally Posted by AlphaZero

It came as an IM with an attachment from a friend with the message 'Wanna see my vacation pics?'

I did. I got boned.

I don't know the worm's name, though.

Yea I've had that once.

What anti virus you using?

And all I did was have spybot seach and destroy take a shot at it, shit it loves killing irritating shit like this lol.