AIM virus

[joshwriting]

A few of you have let me know that you have an AIM Virus. While normally, information about it would go in Technical Difficulties, it seems this is wide-reaching enough that I would like to warn you in advance - and tell you what to do - where more people will see it.

If you got an AIM message from a friend that said something like:

did you see it!? I want to put it on myspace. but ur making a wierd face. lol http:// www.imagehoster .com/server2-25%verified/jpg/s-47fr544-H/picture002 .jpg, did you still want me to add it?
or

OMFG! this picture isnt too kinky to put in my new album... or is it? http://www. picturehosting. com/images/userfiles/96021/picture32.jpg,/i>


and you clicked on the link to see the picture, your computer now has the virus, too. The links don't actually go where the URL says it goes.

You should sign off AIM immediately to avoid infecting your buddy list, and then you should go to http://www.jayloden.com/

They have a program called AIMfix which should take care of the problem

Josh Shaine
Cross-posted on Sheroes

Comments

[beanswednesday.livejournal.com]

Do you know if the AIM virus would affect Adium, or is it limited to actual AIM?

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it will corrupt Adium or not, nor Trillian. But I also don't know what else the Trojan will do. Is it merely a corrupter of AIM? A good question, but I don't have the inclination to examine the little bug.

Perhaps one of my more daring(or bored) readers will take it apart.

[superfinemind.livejournal.com]

You appear to have a missing > right after the second theoretical link.

Thanks for the heads-up.

...I'm not sure if I'm more disappointed that the second one sounds like a scam outright ("...or is it?" is not something the average person says in that context, i think) [and thus whoever wrote it fails at their intent] or that the first one doesn't strike me as totally unnatural. Except maybe the "did you see it!?"

Everybody knows if it's a question, the question mark goes first.

[mhuzzell.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have the AIM virus. But I do have the summer boredom virus, which can hopefully be treated with some I-found-Josh's-LJ. *Friends*

x Molly (Aldebaran from Sheroes)

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

*turns her on her head, multiplicatively*

Summer boredom is no fun. Are you back Ioway?

[mhuzzell.livejournal.com]

Hehe, nooo... I only went to school in Iowa! I've been at uni in Scotland the past 2 years, and I'm staying here this summer. However, I get intimidated by big cities, so decided to stay in the same small city I've been in. But with nearly all of the students gone, it's pretty dull.

[simertalger.livejournal.com]

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