[Matt08]

I just accepted a file from one of my friends and clicked on it and now it's gave me some sort of virus that sends to all my MSN contacts aswell. Any advice on how I could get rid of it?

[Ruth*Star]

How about System Restore, take your computer back a day? would that work?

[MarkWaldorf]

That happened to my sisters computer, she had to reinstall the whole system.

[Callum]

That's happened to a few of my friends, it's so annoying as well. Try System Restore.

[Ann]

Matthew I Wandered What That was When You Kept Poping Up On MY msn it Rather Scared Me Too Soz But I thought it was you taking the mick out of me i've now deleted you from my msn sorry for that matthew

[Matt08]

Thanks for the advice. I've tried system restore and it didn't work so now i'm trying Sybot Search and Destroy.

[Sticks]

You need to do a boot scan, a number of viruses hide in the Restore section so a System Restore will not work. When this happened to me in 2005 I ended up having to do the Nuke option and calling in and paying for an engineer.

[Matt08]

I ended up reinstalling Windows XP and now everything is working fine.

[Magic]

Originally posted by Matthew
I ended up reinstalling Windows XP and now everything is working fine.

My friend caught it, if its the one where it says 'Look at this Picture of You' (Or Something). They had to delete Windows Messenger, and use Norton to delete the virus.

They then reinstalled Messenger, and it was all fine.

[Red Moon]

You could buy an Apple Mac

[Xander]

i have had that a few times, i just did a virus check and it got rid of it

[Matt08]

Originally posted by Red Moon
You could buy an Apple Mac

One problem, I don't have the £999 or however much they are.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Matthew

One problem, I don't have the £999 or however much they are.

They aren't that much.

iMac 20 inch 2.0GHz Core2Duo 1G/250 ATI128MB

20” Widescreen TFT, 1,680 x 1,050 resolution
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz processor, 4MB Shared L2 cache, 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Disk
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics processor with 128MB of GDDR3 memory
8x Double Layer SuperDrive (reads/writes DVD’s, reads/writes CD’s)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0, Built in iSight camera, supplied with Apple Remote and Front Row software

£799.00 (inc vat)
£680.00 (ex vat)

or

MacBook 2.00GHz Core 2 Duo 1G/80/Combo White

13.3-inch widescreen display, White, 1280 x 800 resolution
2.00GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB memory (2 x 512MB SODIMMs)
80GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW)

£681.52 (inc vat)
£580.02 (ex vat)

Think of the time you would save messing about with viruses.

[Noel]

That happened to me a few weeks ago!
I just ran a virus scan and it got rid of it for me. =D
If you dont have a virus thingy, then tep your computer a few times.
All will be fine =D

[Matt08]

Thanks for everyone's advice. So glad I got it fixed.