Someone at my office was hit with the same issue - I'll post once our End User Support people have had a change to run diagnostics on the system.
David On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Isaac Witmer wrote: > General suggestions with viruses: > 1) switch to safe mode and then do a system scan > 2) pull the hard drive and scan the hard drive in another computer > (after making sure that the other computer doesn't "auto-run" files on > external hard drives) > 3) Try 1 and 2 with multiple virus scanners: > > http://www.pendriveapps.com/avg-anti-virus-rescue-usb/ > http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable > > If you don't have another computer to work with, you can always boot > Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download) and then > install clam scan (clamav in the software center). > > If all else fails Nuke it from Orbit (reinstall windows). > > Anyway, some of this might be rather complicated if you're not used to > it, but I'm sure you can find all sorts of guides online to walk you > through it. > > -Isaac > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Philip Mooney <philipmoo...@hotmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> An instant message was sent to me by a colleage which contains the text >> "OMG, Is this really you". >> It contained a link, and I inadvertantly clicked on the link. >> >> What happened then was that my PIDGIN program seemed to automatcially send >> this same message to everyone in my contacst list, I also noticed that the >> message or link was not always the same, see below for some examples; >> >> >> rofl THIS ISN'T YOUR PICTURE RIGHT? HTTP://BIT.LY/XHtCqe?J391PRB27VK93RA >> omg IS THIS REALLY YOUR PIC? HTTP://BIT.LY/a5PPhG?887754714W54V46 >> OMG this isn't your photo right? http://bit.ly/wDmBYw?kayl082cp4bm9r2 >> LOL this isn't your pic right? http://bit.ly/yDq89I?0mr578253m33ssm >> >> I have tried to remove this sing Mcaffee but with no luck, I have also >> unintalled and re-installed PIDGIN and still no result. >> Even when my status is offline, PIDGIN still trys to open my contact list >> but it cannot get past that status. >> Can you tell me how I can find and remeove this virus? >> Thx, >> Philip >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Support@pidgin.im mailing list >> Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: >> http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > _______________________________________________ > Support@pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support