AIM virus

**Herr.Wenz** · September 27th, 2005, 02:35 PM

Link removed dont click

I was flooded by least 10 friends that sent me this link and it locked me up.The link did open by mistakle but didnt load in IE. I am using Trillian, so my question could I have been affected and how can I get rid of this with out formating

thanx

TwoLoud · September 27th, 2005, 02:59 PM

did you do a virus scan? come up with any viruses?

**Herr.Wenz** · September 27th, 2005, 03:00 PM

yea NOD didnt find anything, now doing Housecall

so I take it that being in Trillian doesnt help me

**Potato** · September 27th, 2005, 03:18 PM

Doesn't it just send itself to everyone on your list? Then it's up to you whether or not you open it?

**Herr.Wenz** · September 27th, 2005, 04:07 PM

thats what most of them do, i was just trying to see since I was using trillian if it i was affected since it didnt open

**Potato** · September 27th, 2005, 07:26 PM

I would think that since it didn't open, you should be okay.

And I think that's less related to Trillian than your own personal settings.

**Herr.Wenz** · September 27th, 2005, 09:25 PM

what u mean that trillian doesnt get affected by this?

**Potato** · September 27th, 2005, 09:54 PM

What are you asking? Trillian is simply a program that connects to the AIM, MSN, Yahoo and whatever other networks. Of course it's affected... you got the messages didn't you?

**Herr.Wenz** · September 28th, 2005, 08:03 AM

"And I think that's less related to Trillian than your own personal settings."

Thats what I didnt understand m8.

**Potato** · September 28th, 2005, 08:12 AM

The linky link. I received the same message you did, but for whatever reason, it didn't open automatically... nor did it send itself to everyone on my buddy list. I wasn't using Trillian at the time either.

What I meant (which now doesn't make sense to me), was that maybe you have something enabled that allows for links to be opened automatically.

**Herr.Wenz** · September 28th, 2005, 08:58 AM

oh ok i got you now thanx, no I dont have any settings, I did the stupid move of clicking it

I dont think it opened either cause when the link was clicked, it took me to a website saying the site has been removed

**Potato** · September 28th, 2005, 09:18 AM

Well that's a relief.

Lesson for you: Don't click links if you don't know what they are! Hover over it if you're really curious, see if it looks even remotely familiar. The URL should show up, and you can see what it is.