How to remove the MSN Messenger virus
Feb.28, 2008 at 12:09 am in
Ramblings
To be honest, i’m sick of all the people that sign into MSN Messenger and you get this:
Yes it’s a girl i know. I wish these people knew how to protect their computer from these sort of viruses. If you have tried uninstalling MSN Messenger and reinstalling it try the following resources:-
- How to Remove MSN Virus Project 1/ Generic2.EXO / Backdoor.Generic3.SAT
- How to remove 4 differen’t MSN viruses
- More ways to remove the viruses
- Do a search on Google
You wouldn’t get such viruses if you had a firewall and anti virus software installed, but i guess not everyone knows what these tools are.
Update - I’ve posted a new post regarding this. Check it out here.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Hi, I have a similar virus. I believe its brand new. These things are brutal. I have my programs all up to date and have done so many scans I have lost count.
My Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is sending randomg messages to my contacts telling them to go to a website. They are sent when I am not even online and the computer is off. It reads as follows….:
“Derek sent 3/12/2008 5:38 AM:
hi
please download it.
*virus to the website*
Any ideas or directions or possibly a removal tool???
March 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
….DONT CLICK THAT ABOVE LINK THAT IS PURELY AN EXAMPLE OF THE VIRUS…ACTUALLY NOT AN EXAMPLE THAT IS THE VIRUS WEBSITE….
March 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I’ve edited the comment to remove the website. It is very annoying indeed. Have you tried the links i supplied? I’ve never had the virus before, but a search on google will hopefully tell you. Do a search for “how to remove msn virus” in google and see if you can find anything.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Well do this…. if you go into your local settings and then /appdata you can try and search for it in there…. thats where those viruses are normally “hanging”
If you reply quick i can get your email or something? i’ll guide you through getting rid of it?
good luck.
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I don’t have the virus. Other people do though. Maybe you could write a guide and i’ll post it?
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Umm Well…. its hard to write i guide …. i kind of just work with the person… if you know what i mean?
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Don’t worry about it, i know what you mean
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April 6th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
hi all,
i just received a virus via msn as i accidentally clicked on the link after my friend msg me something that says “hey is that you in that pic?” and i’ve runned the program on my com only to realise later that it’s a virus. however, i have spybot search and destroy running on my com and after the program was run, i kept clicking ‘denying change’ on registry and even after running a scan by spybot, the thing doesn’t seem to be deleted as i keep sending this virus to my msn contacts. i’ve also runned clamwin antivirus to no avail. may i know how can i delete this virus? thank you vm.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
i’ve tried those methods in the links above and they don’t seem to have removed it too.any suggestions or solutions? thanks
April 6th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Winnie, have you tried the new post i made?
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
hi-
i got exactly the same virus derek got
( Derek Jansen, March 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm)
i was getting the link numerous times from one of my friend on contact list. i knew it was a virus so i did not click on it, and every time i got that link i just x’ed out from the box but the funny thing is, now my friends from the contact list are saying that i am sending out these links. is it possible for me to get that virus when i didnt even click on it??
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
glo, you won’t have the virus if you didn’t click the link, you should be fine. Does more than one person use your computer? Maybe they clicked the link?
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
no- no one uses the computer except me and i didnt click the link. but how come those people whos on my msn contacts are saying that i am sending these wierd links to them? it seems like its the virus or warm (i really dont know what it is) within my msn spreading to all of the contacts? and i just found out that there is this file automatically created in my “my sharing folders” called BRANDS. i opened that file and it has this file called ‘config.xml’? what is this suppose to mean? does anyone know?
April 24th, 2008 at 8:35 am
glo, i think you should reinstall msn messenger, delete that brands folder, try the above link to remove any potential virus and run spyware checks, virus checks etc.