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Wow!

“Hey, is this your picture?”

with 4 comments

No, and that’s a MSN virus thing you got there. Received 3 of these so far.

oopz, i clicked it cuz i rly tot it waz mi pic
don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world. There are three things you should do immediately:

1. Exit MSN Messenger. You don’t want to keep sending out those embarrassing messages, now do you?

2. Google it. do a google search for exactly what the virus makes you say, and you’ll definitely find someone who’s already beat you to being hit and someone else who has found a solution. The internets is full of people like you. That’s how the virus reached you in the first place, right?

3. Download/Update/Execute your anti-virus software. This should usually clean up the mess, but I’ve come across a couple of cases where this didn’t work for some reason. Maybe the virus definition database was not updated in time. If it doesn’t work, try doing a spyware search & destroy.

If neither 2 or 3 works out, contact someone with moderate tech experience, before you accidentally break more things.

And in the future, please don’t be so click happy. If we avoid so many people getting infected, perhaps they’ll stop putting in that virus scan requirement.

Maybe ask the person who sent you the message about it, be like “wth how u got my pic”

“stalker.”

Written by hsadan

January 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm

Posted in Utilities

4 Responses to '“Hey, is this your picture?”'

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  1. like you say. you can google it. but I remember a cleaner that works perfectly fine. I think you can find the link in hardwarezone’s forum.

    penguin

    21 Jan 08 at 12:23 pm

  2. oh gosh… what if someone sent me, i clicked… nearly saving the file. will i get infected too? =S

    Someone

    22 Jan 08 at 8:26 am

  3. As long as you didn’t save/open the file, you should be fine.

    hsadan

    22 Jan 08 at 12:19 pm

  4. this just happened to me, twice at the same time, never have i been more happy to be on a Mac!

    Phelim Brady

    23 Jan 08 at 3:40 pm

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