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Eleri · Great Tree Member Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 819

*dies*
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BladeLakem · Great Tree Member Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 514

No no no, she's supposed to watch her language - you know read her lips in a mirror while she is talking. Really!

Moiety Jean · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:36 am Post subject:

janaba1 · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:57 am Post subject:

/ROTFL

LOOOL.......!!!!!!!!!

A very interesting development of this thread...
It seems the virus has infected everything and everybody... Wink

CAGrayWolf · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:

Thank you Marten, Rex and Eleri. I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to all those on my friend's list and hope that none of you got infected like I did. Yeah, I made the gawd awful mistake on trusting a link from someone I knew, that was in my friends list on MSN Messenger. It is not unusual for me to send and receive links through MSN and do this several times a week on average.

This one though ... even though I felt a red flag pop up in my head ... but too late ... I had already clicked the link ... and before I knew it, I had dozens and dozens of MSN windows popping up. I immediately shut down MSN and unplugged my ethernet cable from my computer. But the damage had already severly infected my computer.

I had the following adwares installed:
adware.look2me
adware.dollarrevenue
drivecleaner
spyware.marketscore

I was able to clean out the latter three and some extensive attempts ... but the look2me one was quite persistant. After a ful afternoon and following morning ... and realizing how much further damage was caused to many of my installed programs ... it literally zapped a good number of registry entries making it impossible to uninstall and reinstall most of my protection software. I finally opted for the best and easiest route ... a complete low-level format and reinstall. I was able to save most of my documents and a few saved games.

I'm still not quite sure exactly what happened though. I do have my computer set up in such a way that ANY program being installed has to be verified and approved TWICE in order to run. I could imagine I may have hit the "RUN" button by mistake ... but not twice. Anyway, I had tried all the sugestions from numerous sites to remove these malicious programs and none worked. Even the registry strings they recommended searching for and deleting didn't exist ... so I couldn't even find the blasted thing to remove it.

Anyway ... I somewhat back up and running. Have all the primary programs installed and all current updates. I haven't installed any of my games yet, including UrU. I'll be back in the cavern as soon as I can though. I'm seriously debating whether to install any Instant Messengers at the moment though. Needless to say ... I have every reason not to right now. I'm also not sure if this actually came through MSN of through Yahoo as I was using the Windows Messenger Live with the Yahoo add-on.

I will post again if and when I decide to install any IM programs ... so for now DO NOT accept any IM messages from CAGrayWolf untill I state otherwise.
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Cycreim · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

Wolfie, I changed your text colour at the bottom to something a bit more readable and noticable. I hope you don't mind, I just wanted to make sure people got the message as clear as possible.

Green backgrounds and red text kind of throb eerily. D:
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CAGrayWolf · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject:

Moiety Jean · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry this happened, CAGrayWolf..

I will never, ever understand why people create programs just for the damage they will do. Makes me sick to think about it.
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