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ostarella ([personal profile] ostarella) wrote2010-01-13 03:11 pm
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Messenger virus?

My apologies to any and all who might get this via Yahoo messenger - a friend of mine sent me a link to a picture - not even realizing that YIM (or any other instant messenger) could contain viruses (stupidly thought they had better protection than emails) I clicked on it - my computer died, took me almost four hours just to get it to stay on long enough to do a spyware scan (now doing the virus scan) - there were three spyware thingies on my computer. :-(   So now I keep getting YIM and AIM popping up and pinging people (I finaly signed off both). Anyway, trying to figure out how to fix it now. Lesson learned.

I hate the internet sometimes...

[identity profile] billy-shriner.livejournal.com 2010-01-13 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really us instant messenger as such now. I use Facebook one... my mum catches me online. But I don't use the Windows Live one or whatever it is anymore.