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O.P. New virus thingy alert!
Lately i have been seing a new message going around that looks like this:
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holy shit, have a look at this!!!!!! xxxx://www.windowslivemessenger.biz/msn/msn.php?s=vKAmaAD&id=7035&profile=youremailwouldgohere


When you go to download it is callec contactinfo.scr and so far i havent anything on the interent about how to heal/clear it.

EdIt: blocked out http because it works with anything you put after the profile=, not just an email address

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03-04-2007 08:55 PM
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RE: NEW VIRUS THINGY ALERT
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When you go to download it is callec contactinfo.scr and so far i havent anything on the interent about how to heal/clear it.

My Antivirus(Kaspersky) has recognized and deleted it..I imagine you don't use kaspersky


However you can clean it...Try to see this link i think it should be useful:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t388107.html

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RE: NEW VIRUS THINGY ALERT
or it's very new, or it's not such dangerous:
BitDefender, NOD32, Kaspersky - no viruses found
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or it's very new, or it's not such dangerous:
BitDefender, NOD32, Kaspersky - no viruses found
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MMMM?????No it isn't new.....And kaspersky has recognized it

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This file has been downloaded 420 time(s).
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RE: New virus thingy alert!
Dunno then, maybe the virustotal is using another version of kaspersky
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Help, im infected with this! My anti virus hasn't picked it up but i know its there because every few minutes, while im on the interent, the firefox search bit at the bottom comes up and it automatically types in holy shit, have a look at this!!!!!! www.windowslivemessenger.biz/msn/msn.php?s=S&id=7519&profile=$msnaddy which is the website of the virus
Please, has anyone got a way of clearing this virus?
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RE: New virus thingy alert!
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Help, im infected with this! My anti virus hasn't picked it up but i know its there because every few minutes, while im on the interent, the firefox search bit at the bottom comes up and it automatically types in holy shit, have a look at this!!!!!! www.windowslivemessenger.biz/msn/msn.php?s=S&id=7519&profile=$msnaddy which is the website of the virus
Please, has anyone got a way of clearing this virus?

Have you seen my post?

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Originally posted by Jimbodude
Help, im infected with this! My anti virus hasn't picked it up but i know its there because every few minutes, while im on the interent, the firefox search bit at the bottom comes up and it automatically types in holy shit, have a look at this!!!!!! www.windowslivemessenger.biz/msn/msn.php?s=S&id=7519&profile=$msnaddy which is the website of the virus
Please, has anyone got a way of clearing this virus?

Have you seen my post?

Yup, and i read that thread and its talking about a complete different virus as when i try and end the sxshost.exe or whatever, it says there is no such process
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its talking about a complete different virus as when i try and end th

Ok download hijackthis and send me the log

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Mate, first of all, post here a log generated by Hijackthis, it could be useful to individuate the guilty process
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