aimer? virus?

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June 30, 2004 at 5:27 pm #3187

deh707
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once a week, I get this chat invitation..
last week I clicked it, my aim wouldnt work, so I had to reinstall it.

i am using aim 5.5.3595 and deadaim 4.5

June 30, 2004 at 7:35 pm #42499

plastidcells
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ya recently i’ve been spammed to join chatrooms with links at the greeting… you should always ignore those especially when you see their sn as random letters and numbers. that picture won’t work for us btw. you have the link set to your harddrive instead of the internet. we can’t access your computer, and BBB doens’t upload the picture when you set the “URL” as c:aimer.jpg

For free image hosting, you could use http://www.uploadit.org/ and just register, browse and select a picture, then upload, it will give you the url to the picture so you can post it at these forums

well if you reinstalled AIM and it’s working now, then I guess there’s no immediate problem. however since we don’t know what’s at that website, it might be good just to do a quick virus scan, and ad/spyware scan. for the ad/spyware scan, these two (free) programs are pretty popular
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot-Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/

July 1, 2004 at 2:28 am #42502

deh707
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thanks for the uploading hint.. can you see the pic now?

July 1, 2004 at 3:14 am #42498

rockerjock
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I got a similar link but to a diff chat, I didnt know the person however but they were in the chat, could it be them who has the virus and thats y?

July 1, 2004 at 3:40 am #42500

plastidcells
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deh707,
do you have a problem with how your AIM works? If not, are you just stating the fact that you get those chat invitations and you clicked it once and you had to reinstall AIM but now everything works fine?

You can’t get a virus just by joining the chatroom. You would get a virus/spyware by clicking that CLICK HERE! link. And because you clicked that link, it’s probably best to check what i’ve told you above as a precaution.

And yes we can see the picture now

Edit: btw these chat invites are given by bots to spam a link. And why spam a link through a chat invite as opposed to a regular IM? Probably because people would be more likely to know not to click a link from a random person in an IM. This is only my speculation tho

July 1, 2004 at 7:56 am #42503

deh707
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oh, after I reinstalled it, everything is fine now.

just warning others about that invitation.

July 3, 2004 at 7:34 pm #42501

Spanaway
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I’ve gotten it twice now as well, but I never clicked the link. Why must people be retarded and keep making these kinds of things?

July 3, 2004 at 9:49 pm #42504

T0sHi
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I get that dumb invitation once every two weeks. Then when I join, it keeps spamming the site. But thank god Im not dumb enough to click it, only dumb enough to go in.
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