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stayaway03 Posted at 2:19 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
So i had this IM from a friend that said, "i'm so cool" and then gave me this link.  I was thinking maybe it was something from his band or something so, without thinking, I clicked it.  Now I have this thing on my computer, and it has come to my attention that it sends this link to other people, randomly, on my buddy list.  At first I just thought it added a dumb little toolbar to my internet, but then we people started being like "what is that?" and i had no idea what they were talking about, and then it sent one to me(because i have my own name on my list), and everything just kinda clicked.

So yes, if anyone knows how to get rid of this, it would GREATLY be APPRECIATED.

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stayaway03 Posted at 10:07 pm on Sep. 15, 2005
ok, so I used the AIMFix one.  It did indeed find things and says it cleaned them.  My system is still acting weird though.  I've also run ad-aware and a virus scan, ad-aware found things, not thing serious, but it did find things.  But the virus scan found nothing.  I made a new post about my virus, which can be found here........http://www.golivewire.com/forums/topic.cgi?topic=184974


(I know that you're not supposed to make a post directing to other posts, but this just seems logical, somehow.  If you don't like it, please don't delete it, just message me and tell me to take off the link, because there's nothing wrong with the first part of this)

JoJo Posted at 2:50 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
Quote: from unknown figure at 10:38 pm on Sep. 14, 2005

go on www.runehq.com and scroll down the menu on the left then download ad-aware tht removes spyware and things like this it might work

The Forum "before you post" faq Has direct links to virus and spyware removal tools.

ad-aware is one of the better ones.

unknown figure Posted at 2:38 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
go on www.runehq.com and scroll down the menu on the left then download ad-aware tht removes spyware and things like this it might work

JoJo Posted at 2:32 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
Was it something to do with buddypicture.net ? Clicky

Maybe Realphx.com ... linkage (The RealPhx.com Fix)

More good stuff

And the official AIM guide to removing viruses and trojans Clickage

stayaway03 Posted at 2:23 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
I've already gotten rid of the toolbar, however the virus or whatever it is, is still around
Firefly00 Posted at 2:23 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
I had one of them on msn there annoying note to self: dont click on links!
unknown figure Posted at 2:21 pm on Sep. 14, 2005
go on control panel then remove/uninstall rpgram and there shud be a ????? toolbar just click remove it
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