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my friend caught it, can anyone help id it?

If he has an antivirus, he should run it. If it's up to date, it will remove the virus.

Might be similar to this.

Click me.

I'm having the same issue, but my AV and other programs didn't detect it. I tried that link above but found nothing, any ideas?

Seems like a perfect time to post this. Please sticky it if possible as it is the third time I have had to post it.

Viruses are always on the loose! Weather its from files you downloaded from a site or your friends sent it to you via messenger, it's a big problem.

There are a few things you can do such as always confirm that your contact sent it to you and it wasn't an automated message. Also make sure you have a good anti-virus that's always updated.

Here are some free anti-viruses that you can download (in no particular order).
Please note you should only have one resident anti-virus program

• Avast! home edition
  
• Avira AntiVir
  
• AVG

Or try either of these free online scanners

• Trend Micro House Call
  
• Microsoft Online Safety Scanner
  
• Yahoo Security Centre

• You can also try Anti-Spyware programs like
  
• AVG Anti-Spyware
  
• Ad-Aware
  
• Windows Defender

All are Free.

Remember the best virus defence is common sense and always check with your contact!

Search the forums!

omg its so annoying my whole friends list has it.

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Originally posted by Chris4

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Originally posted by Xdude
I'm having the same issue, but my AV and other programs didn't detect it.

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Did you try the online virus scans?
MS said they were going to put a scanning activity in the activity list, what happened to it?

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Originally posted by Steven
omg its so annoying my whole friends list has it.

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Tell them to do this:

Download this: http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/killbox.exe
Open it up.

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

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

yeah like they will understand that, thanks though