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i am wondering waht this is my cousin accepted it on his friends comp
is it a worm virus or just plain out bad?? it sends that link every 30- 40 minutes it send a link to soe program thats named after you, well its annoying and if anyone could tell me how to get rid of it that would be great im not stupid enogh to accept it it would help him and his friends comp

i dont understand what your saying.

hmm i have a pic ok here [img=http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7079/wtf0sa.th.jpg]

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Originally posted by expert
hmm i have a pic ok here [img=http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7079/wtf0sa.th.jpg]

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i still dont understand what the problem is except that a link will appear.

it gives you a link to a prgram that screws up your comp

hmm run some anti spyware and anti virus scanners

This is the virus outbreak of W32.IRCBot.  Another report I was just on my way to reply to also came in today.  Symantec has issued RapidRelease Virus Defintions for this thread, so users of Norton AntiVirus can download and apply them for immediate protection.

Information: W32.IRCBot

Rapid Release Virus Definitions: Download Here for Immediate Protection

How to remove the W32.IRCBot messenger virus
Based on info by Symantec Security Repsonse

Step 1: Killing the process

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to bring up the windows task manager
  
• Click on the processes tab (if you are using an older version of Windows, eg: Windows 98. Do not worry about this step
  
• Scroll down to the process: winapii.exe, and click End Process (or End Task for older versions of windows

Step 2: Removing the files

• Navigate to where Windows is installed on your hard drive (Usually C:\Windows)
  
• Find and delete the folder named: Winapii

Step 3: Fixing the registry

• Open your registry editor (Start > Run > regedit.exe) and navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
  
• Delete the key named winapii
  (For a small tutorial on this, go to this site, because deleting the wrong keys could corrupt Windows).

Step 4: Finalising the removal

• Clean out your recycle bin to totally remove the files from your HDD.
  
• Do a complete system scan of your system to make sure that no other files have been infected

o this has been out for a long time i think because all my friends send me that... everytime

A stand-alone utility (you can use this alongside your own Av program) that will remove this one is Avert Stinger