I got this virus last week and my IT guy gave me this link today that removes the virus that my other antivirus softwares couldnt find.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/AIM-Fix.shtml

 

I can't belive these things are still going around. I was cleaning these up for people 2 or 3 years ago when they first started. You'd think people wouldn't click on random links in IMs anymore. Anytime I get a random IM with a link from a friend... I ask them what it is before I open it.

 

i never heard of this problem before so i didnt know better. sure won't happen again

 

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Windows.

The number and types (and sophistication) of viruses, worms and trojans that assult PCs daily is phenominal. Even just the sheer quantity of things slamming into my firewalls and dropping to the ground is amazing.

I really think that part of our problem as 'innocent bystanders' is that we don't understand the 'why' of the people creating them any more than we understand the 'why' of a terrorist blowing his neighbors up. It really makes no sense most of the time.

All we can do is hope that the makers of the software we all run do a better job in protecting that software from incursions.

(I also think that the news reporting on these things needs to be more focused: Instead of reporting a "computer virus" affecting "desktop computers" the viruses and worms should be reported for what they are, to bring more attention to the only folks who can fix the problem: Reporting a "software virus" affecting "computers running Microsoft software" would be a good start...

The average user doesn't understand those viruses and worms don't affect "all" computers, but only those running Microsoft software, because Microsoft is rarely mentioned in the headline. (As an example, MS Windows has fallen prey to over 80,000 viruses and worms while my OS has fallen prey to less than 80 in the past 25 years.)

We need pressure on Microsoft to clean up their act - the largest software company in the world, run by the world's richest man, should be able to afford doing a better job...

It's senseless for business to just 'accept' losing billions of dollars each and every year to these viruses and worms.

Whups! Someone obviously pushed one of my buttons. Sorry!

(And while it is true that this virus being spoken of in this thread is being called 'an AOL AIM virus,' it is only bothersome on MS Windows machines... AIM is only the transport mechanism - the target of the attack is the MS Windows OS itself, as usual.)

I'll shut up now, and crawl back under my rock. :D