The Juggle Zone: Bargain Blog

I don't know about you, but I'd never heard of an "AIM Virus" until yesterday, when a friend of mine IMed me with a link. I clicked it, and it wanted to install one of those annoying things that you usually don't want to install, but sometimes need to. Since a friend whom I know (and somewhat trust) IMed it, and since I have Norton installed, I figured, 'why not?'

Well, it turns out my friend didn't send it to me, the virus did. And when I downloaded and installed the program, I did the same to everyone on my buddy list. The only way I could tell (the outgoing message doesn't create IM windows) was that several of my "buddies" responded to "my" IM.

To make a long story short, beware of links sent via AIM, and if you happened to have installed this annoying (but harmless) little program, go here for instructions on how to get rid of it. Note that even if you have Norton, it may not detect it. (Norton says: This threat can be detected only by Symantec products that support expanded threats. For more information on expanded threats, please go here.