AIM Plague
 

Has anyone else here encountered a problem where you AIM Info automatically says "Whoaaa....look at what I found, click here" as a link to www.talkstocks.net?
My sister was on the computer and clicked that link and now my sn is also infected. I've virus scanned, and everything.
Any advice?

I know not what you are talking about, and I've been signed on AIM for a while now. Could you be more specific?

Its also with WWW DOT REALPHX DOT COM in peoples profiles... it makes so your profile cannot change back. NEVER CLICK ON THAT LINK!!!

I was wondering why everyone has that in their profiles...I cliked on it and it didnt do it to my profile tho....maybe cause I have AIM+?

More than likely this is spyware instead of virus related. You can go to http://www.safer-networking.org/ to download SpyBot Search & Destroy, which is very handy for getting rid of such things on your computer. It's free and will remove a lot of spyware from your computer that you never even knew you had. That might help you AIM problem.

I do not touch any unfamilar links or e-mail......my computer has been affected several times and fixing it is a big problem.

HOORAY! I got rid of it!
If anyone has problems with this go to http://www.computing.net/security/ww...orum/7362.html it has a walk-through

Another virus which is common with my circle of friends...
"Hey Check out the camera I'm getting PiC" Anything along those lines is a virus. It's funny cause usually the font is default, while their standard font is different.