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MSN Messenger virus Smiler 10-04-2006
Posted by What's in a Name? on November 16, 2006, 10:29 pm
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skeemdrop aka skeemdrop@discussions.microsoft.com in
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after much thought,came up with this jewel:

> I got the same crap! Found the virus and deleted it but now my
> firewall and the system restore doesnt work!

Get a router with a built in firewall and a real backup program.

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Posted by William on December 24, 2006, 1:03 am
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Does anyone know if this is a vulnerability with just IE or does FF
suffer from the same vulnerability. Thanks.

On 11/15/2006 10:24 AM, something possessed skeemdrop to write:
> I got the same crap! Found the virus and deleted it but now my firewall and
> the system restore doesnt work!
>
> "Smiler" wrote:
>
>> Was suprised about how hard to is to contact Microsoft with reference to this
>> sort of thing. Alot of my friends have recently been infected by a virus
>> spreading itself on msn urging people to click a link to a 'picture' which in
>> reality opens up a dos-file.
>>
>> "is that you on that photo?!
>> http://www.sam22*com/photos*php?photo=photo211*jpg" (LINK OBFUSCATED WITH *
FOR SAFETY)
>>
>> this is the link that people recieve - although I would suggest you not
>> click on it. Just wondering if microsoft had worked out any type of fix? As
>> this has put alot of mates in a bind.
>>
>> Thanks

Posted by David H. Lipman on December 24, 2006, 9:06 am
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| Does anyone know if this is a vulnerability with just IE or does FF
| suffer from the same vulnerability. Thanks.
|


Different vulnerabilities as they are made by different vendors.

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