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It happened so quickly, I hardly realized it. Somebody from MSN sent me 3 files out of the blue. I wasn't even talking and she sends me these files. At first, I was like "WTF is she sending me this for". After downloading it, I see that they're stored as MS-DOS files. I look at the icons sitting on my desktop and I'm like "This looks suspiscious". I run a Norton scan and it brings up nothing....so, to peak my curiosity, I stupidly decide to open them (Thinking that they were harmless). My comp freezes, I reboot and my comp goes through 5 different malicious code scanning. Ad-aware pops up and gives me some "changed registry" warnings which imediately makes me go . Then Norton deletes a nice, flavourful trojan from my comp. So, a note to everyone, don't open MS-DOS files from MSN users. I know it's common sense, but I did it without even thinking...I still have no idea why.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3082, old post ID:25248

How cum you don't have a virus program runing that checks your email or that checks on a file when it's read?

My free virus program would have opened as soon as I clicked on the file.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3082, old post ID:25253

i also had it sent to me.. it was named webcam-001 or somthing like that but didnt open it

it seems to be sending itself out to contacts on msn messenger so just dont accept any files unless thay tell ya thay are sending it cuz i wasnt even talking to her at the time n cuz the file name i asked wtf it was n she didnt have a clue the file was being sent lol

made her scan n crap so +1 for the good guys

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3082, old post ID:25254

I got owned once with that, to make it worse it was on a Christmas day (like 2-3 years ago)

I had this file on my computer for a long time but never installed it, so on christmas I decided, "hey I'll install it now and try this new program out to do video editing"

Open it, computer goes really slow then dies on me, It had screwed up allot of stuff so I clean installed. -1 points for PC cillen, which is what I used then.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3082, old post ID:25256

Yep I ended up with a worm from receiving and opening msn picture transfers. Finally got off my lazy butt and configured my anti virus to scan them and told the person who sent the too me to go to symantecs website for a little search and kill programe to get rid of it... It usually happens to all of us at one time or another...Oh well first one in a long time and once it got into the win32 file my antivirus wouldn't delete the file and the little bugger changed 3 of my registry values... All gone now..

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3082, old post ID:25312