Shoutbox

I have been having this problem all day now. At first it was norton antivirus but now its not even installed anymore. i tried everything from restarting to block/unblock to appear offline, sign out etc and back and only a select few see me online

edit: after furthur investigation, I found it is the new virus mentioned in this thread that causes the problem.

edit2: see the fix provided at the bottom of the thread. it works.