Msn Virus

[puuchai299]

I'm wondering if anyone has come across a virus been spread through msn.

A friend sent me a zip flile on msn,as it was from a friend i accepted it when it arrived i tried to open the file but repeatedly could not.Now that friend said he never sent me a file.Later that day(yesterday)a friend online with his notebook in my garden started getting files coming to his msn asking him to accept them,but i wasn't near my pc to be sending anything.Another friend recieved a file sent from me which i didn't send him,he tried to open it and could not but then his computor immedietly became infected with a virus.

[Farma]

There’s a virus doing the rounds infecting yahoo messenger as well.

In the middle of a chat it appears as a line of text with Vietnamese writing followed by a link to a free web server address. (It’s a different virus to the pretty girl ones doing the rounds last year)

This becomes more frequent followed by screen failure.

One laptop I know was infected is presently unusable. It’s now in a second computer repair shop being looked at as the first shop was unable to repair it.

[Firefoxx]

It's not much of a virus but a trojan, basically a program masquerading as another program.

Very basic rule of computer safety: Don't go around downloading and clicking on files which you aren't sure of.

[cdnvic]

There’s a virus doing the rounds infecting yahoo messenger as well.

In the middle of a chat it appears as a line of text with Vietnamese writing followed by a link to a free web server address. (It’s a different virus to the pretty girl ones doing the rounds last year)

This becomes more frequent followed by screen failure.

One laptop I know was infected is presently unusable. It’s now in a second computer repair shop being looked at as the first shop was unable to repair it.

Almost certainly a SONAHAD worm or one of it's variants. Antivir and NOD32 are both supposed to deal with it when scanning in safe mode. There's a specific removal too available as well.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu...oval-Tool.shtml

[Farma]

Thanks cdnvic I’ll pass the info on. They had NOD32 installed and up to date as well but it still got past.