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joshwritingA 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
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
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Date: 2007-06-01 07:09 pm (UTC)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.