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Elite? you gotta be an elite to see a .pif and realize that this is strange.. ? I don't think so, but you are right, my language was a little exagarated, and for that I apologize, and will edit my post ASAP.

My post was just, to say thx for the Symantec Link

Btw, is there a job such a teaching ppl stuff like that ?

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Originally posted by lp15
Elite? you gotta be an elite to see a .pif and realize that this is strange.. ? I don't think so, but you are right, my language was a little exagarated, and for that I apologize, and will edit my post ASAP.

My post was just, to say thx for the Symantec Link

Btw, is there a job such a teaching ppl stuff like that ?

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I don't really know...there could be..I mean, look how crazy some jobs out there are. But what's the point? People do the exact opposite of what they're told. Need proof? Look at school. They're taught the downside of doing drugs and yet, the majority of the students (the cool ones, mainly) smoke. If I were told not to look at something, quite obviously I'll end up looking at it. Now, it would be a completely different story if no one said a thing about it. I mean, most people wouldn't notice most things unless someone pointed it out to them.

hmmm, i just got a link like that from a contact of mine. Poor person, they didn't know they had it or what to do. Other people had got infected as well, either a file (.pif type) was being sent by the infected computer to or a link like that pointing to a .pif file.

sooner of later, i'm gonna fall for accepting a dodgy file or clicking a dodgy link

well it finally happened. SOMEONE ON MY LIST GT THE VIRUS. ahhahaha and it was my big sister

I fell for this damn linkage crap!

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Look at school. They're taught the downside of doing drugs and yet, the majority of the students (the cool ones, mainly) smoke.

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I know what you mean, and it's real they won't listen.. but about that drug thing I don't think it's about teaching or not.. I mean I personally am against drugs.. alchool and smoking.. i hate it.. but.. i mean most of the students n my schol.. lets say about 75 % are on one of these things.. and everytime I ask what I realize is that they just do that because they wana enjoy themself, and without drugs or alchool, they cant

Now don't ask me why! I can have fun at a party without being high.. can't we all? Apparently not..

neways.. we getting out of the subject but hey, Evil Steph I seen your personal msn space, and you were talking about the new msn today, maybe you can help me out with my problem, it's the post named : MSN TODAY : OLD/NEW in the Messenger & Technology/ Msn/Windows Messenger directory, thx a lot!

A friend of mine got a virus this evening through MSN, and we are struggling to get rid of it.  The computer has Windows 98SE OS, and Norton Antivirus.

The message sent to her was a link, and said something about a funny picture, and a link to jose.*********/cute.pif. It sends to contacts by typing itself, you can see the cursor move as if there is someone typing it, but can't see the words themself being typed.

We did a search for it, and it appeard to be the bropia worm, and installed the removal tool found at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ven....removal.tool.html. It said it could not find the bropia virus on her computer.

It installed a toolbar, itsbar, which we removed through spybot, although a whole bunch of porn links were not removed at the same time.  Since then, the search functionality on the computer has not been functioning, typing in a url causes an illegal operation every 3 or 4 times it is done, excessive pop ups are occuring, for kelkoo, bullseye and casinos, and it will not allow a pop up blocker to be downloaded, nor would it allow anything like spybot to be downloaded, saying that the security settings will not allow it.  It has blocked the security settings in Internet explorer from being changed. Norton will not work, it scans as if there is only a few files on the computer, which is the same thing that the search does. From time to time, a random dos screen comes up, although it flashes up so quick we cannot be certain it is not a pop up.

At one point, before it was removed, there was an itsbar.dll error come up, titled fahkpym came up, this term did not appear on google.

This is all I can think of at the moment, is there anyone out there who can shed some light on the subject, nothing seems to be working or helping!

try booting in safe mode and running the cleaners and scans, if you havent tried that already (i believe most of the removal guides say to boot in safe mode to run them)

try other free online scanners to see what it finds,, the Virus does it come with a MS-Dos Icon ?

This is really annoying i'm getting like spammed with file transfers from some people....