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Have any of you Noticed when some people IM you out, and are like here click on this link and it has their IP posted. Does anyone know what this Virus is called, and how to fix it? Cause i want to reference people somewhere so that i don’t end up coming down with it by clicking on the link accidentally sometime.
They are usually trying to send you to a porn site so they can make money on your click thur. Use caution with IMs from unkown sources like you should with getting email from someone you don’t know.
Tracer, porn bots are a different (yet equally annoying) issue.
See http://www.nohack.net/aplore.htm for information about the virus. I was able to remove it from a Windows 98 machine without too much trouble. If I remember correctly, I had to delete a program out of the system directory, and hack the registry.
Good luck.
Always exercise caution when clicking a link from someone, especially from strangers. At the very least, ask them what the link is. If they don’t respond with something that seems reasonable to you, don’t click it.
The virus sends that individual’s IP address. The computer I removed it for sent out 192.168.1.31, which is in a range used for local machines. Whoever got sent the link by my friend’s computer would not have been able to get to the machine because it’s (to the other user) a non-existant address.
If the links look like one of these (there are other phrases):
I wanted to show you this, http://192.168.x.x:8180
please check this out, http://192.168.x.x:8180
hey go to, http://192.168.x.x:8180
download this, http://192.168.x.x:8180
see if you can get this to http://192.168.x.x:8180That’s the aplore virus running on the machine of whomever sent that link. matttren asked if it was a virus, and how to remove it. There are detailed instructions to do so in the link in my previous post.
Either way, don’t click on suspicious links. 😉
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