a ton of my friends are now experiencing there MSN sending things to ppl.  Every now and then this line shows up...

"hey, Check out these pics I took of both of us that i want to put up on myspace"

Then a 640kb file transfer pops up called "pics"  It's obviously a virus when it happens about 10 during the duration of my sleep.  Anyone else have this problem and does anyone know how to fix it and/or where to get the fix?

1) Download this
Open it up.

2) Put in the box: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SVSH0ST.EXE
And press the red cross. Close the box.

3) Delete everything in the C:\Windows\Temp folder

That should do it. If it doesn't, they need to run anti-spyware or anti-virus.

Source: http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackt...32-ircbot-ahw.html

And if this fails, try going to task manager, go to proceses and look for svchost, there will be lots of them. ONLY END THE ONE THAT HAS YOUR USERNAME NEXT TO IT OR YOU COULD DO YOUR COMPUTER HARM
And then continue from step 3 above

Tell them to run their anti-virus and anti-spyware. Should pick it up and remove it. If it doesn't, try Jimbodude's suggestion.

If they don't have an anti-virus / anti-spyware installed, tell them to run an online scan (i.e - http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?mkt=en-us )