Anybody else picked up a nasty horrible virus from msn which has completely f*cked their PC? (WARNING!!!)

[JanH]

DS2 did it - he was sent a link when he was chatting to a schoolfriend (not her fault) which he clicked on in all innocence; it was one of those which says something like "look at this!" and when you click on it something scary happens but not nearly as scary as what happens after.

It appears to have taken out both Norton anti-virus (clever... ) and AOL . I am currently using an old laptop on a dial-up connection and DH is taking the PC into work tomorrow to see if someone techy can fix it.

V v v pissed off.

yesi got that earlier this year. black widow someone said. somehow it gets through norton. be warned, you may have lo0st everything on your pc.

are you able to get it switched on at all?

Each & everytime I install msn messenger it screws up my pc. Now I just use windows messenger

The PC itself seems to be ok-so-far-touch-wood, misdee - it boots up and does everything apart from AOL (AOL just vanished, desktop icon and everything )

DS2 has now been warned never to click on anything on pane of deth

oh thats good, but it made it impossible to boot up the pc the following day.

Have you backed up any photos you have on there, Jan?

nooooo, hunker

Do viruses go on wrecking when it's switched off????

no, but it did something when we shut it down.

i lost a lot of stuff. hopefulyl your dh can get it fixed and not lsoe anything.

i now uplod pics to yahoo, snapfish and another photosite. and also tryu and back up on disc

Oh dear...

DH seems quite optimistic but we've never had a bad one before so fingers crossed!

will cross fingers as wlel.

it really tookk me by surprised as it took out norton!

o gosh...you dont think this is..terminal,do you?