Using symantic anti virus & spy bot on xp pro –
Hmm.. well everything went ok,
Safe Mode ran well, nothing was found there,
when we rebooted as soon as messenger was started multiple messenger windows flew open,
eventually we were able to close messenger down, and the auto protect began scanning and found 13 items, pretty much all the same we cleared out this afternoon,
Hmm doesn’t look good to me
My Thoughts. ));-(
it appears the bug is firmly in messenger ,
so why not just go into safe mode, uninstall messenger, run the scans, clear the bugs, and that should solve the problem on local machine or is that too simple ?
(Like me.)
Only thing with that is messenger has a giant suppository out there in cyber space somewhere that has all information stored in it, and when one goes to a particular user that obviously has the virus, from any machine, anywhere on the planet that machine will become infected ?
Or do I have that theory incorrect also .
Anyway, if the uninstallation of messenger will do the trick, before we do, is it possible to access a list of all that users contacts and at least save them somewhere so then can start a whole new messenger with a new user name, login, whatever.
Am struggling with that solution as anyone else with the bug will just reinfect .. Hmm .. like the common cold.. “don’t send your kids to school, they will get sick from all the other kids”
hmm your thoughts please ,
