Hi undisputed,

After you installed through the online install. Look in your YM’s installed folder and you should see the “Installs” folder, it is the offline install, you can use it to install YM! again without connecting to the internet.

Hello panther,

Have your YM 6 to enable Message Archive, it should save your offline messages as well.

Yahoo! Messenger that you downloaded directly from Yahoo is VIRUS-FREE =)

Do not use third-party tools if you are not sure !!!

Hey angel1341uk,

Is your problems solved yet? If not, boot your Windows into safe mode and run any up-to-date antivirus and anti-spyware application to get rid of Magic-PS or whatever is infecting your computer. If you think you have a new type (variant) of Magic-PS, please upload it somewhere such as Geocities, zip the file with a password that your sister received and give me the link. I definitely am going to analyze it to update my Antivirus software, (if it is new). Currently my software is not publicly release yet…in case you ask for a copy.

=) Uhm, everything seems covered here, hihi, no more to add except to Blahblah is whether your Norton Firewall asked you about letting some unknown program access the Internet? If not, or you prevented that, probably your important data is safe and the hacker DO NOT have access to your files. Next time be more careful and put your important data in another partition and encrypt it.

Malicious hackers recently began seeding Internet news groups that traffic in pornography with JPEG images that take advantage of a security hole in Microsoft’s software. Users who unwittingly downloaded the poison images could have had remote-control software installed on their computers that gives remote attackers total control over the machines.

Microsoft, which deemed the flaw “critical,” identified and patched the hole on September 14, but PC users who have not yet downloaded or installed the patch remain vulnerable.

Like other exploits that appeared in the weeks since Microsoft released its patch, the so-called JPEG of Death uses a JPEG file that’s formatted to trigger an overflow in a common Windows component called the GDI+ JPEG decoder, which is used by Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and many other Windows applications. When users open the image, the infected JPEG tries to install a copy of Radmin, a legitimate software application that allows users to control their computers remotely. In this recent case, however, the program was used by a remote attacker to control the user’s PC.

Corrupt JPEG images, whether pornographic or otherwise, are visually indistinguishable from other images. Most only work on Windows XP (news – web sites) machines, and some of the attack features do not appear to work on all XP machines.

Currently, most major antivirus software programs can spot corrupted JPEG images. Antivirus software and the Windows patch are the best protection from attacks that use the GDI+ vulnerability.

Experts say the attack images in question cannot spread and are not, technically, viruses. However, the exploit code could easily be modified to download a virus engine with e-mail capability that would spread when images are opened.

As with Sasser and other recent worms that target common Windows components, security experts worry that the JPEG vulnerability in GDI+ could spawn another major worm outbreak. The vulnerability is remotely exploitable and can be accessed through a long list of popular Windows applications. What’s more, different Windows applications frequently distribute their own versions of GDI+. Those versions might reside in folders used by the applications and may be out of reach of the Windows patch, or could be installed after the Microsoft patch was applied, effectively undoing that patch.

Paul Roberts writes for IDG New Service.
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Hi Kron,

Programs that is running in the background might be the cause of unwanted effects on the computer (intentionally or unintentionally) such as a virus, spyware, etc.

Hey sarahtowny,

Have you updated your Norton Antivirus 2005 and AVG before you scan your computer? Have you try to use Ad-aware, SpyBot Search and Destroy with them updated of course. If all that still doesn’t help, please go to “Start” => “Run”. Type in “msconfig”. “Startup” tab. Post all your “Startup Items” here.