Omega
Displaced Ohioan
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Cheyenne, WY
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3 edits | I been IMed
I even clicked on the website, but I did not download the virus.
This makes me mad, I had no idea it was a virus, but I know never to download those ActiveX programs.
I know a few people who have been unable to remove it, even through add/remove programs. |
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FLECOM
Bay Networks Freak
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join:2003-03-03
Miami, FL | ya this is total crap... i sent them an email and they were like "blah blah our users love our service!"
mmhmm... sure O_o |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Bye Bye
I removed AIM this morning, AOL is reaching all new lows. |
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KAD Imaging
Just Shoot It
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join:2002-09-21
Hialeah, FL | There's a full out discussion on it in the Security forum.
»Aim Virus
Removal tips and all included.  |
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DivineDark
join:2001-08-30
Oklahoma City, OK
clubs:
| reply to dadkins
the spam phone
I would like to install this phone in everyone of the homes of the creaters of this garbage. This special phone cannot be hung up or turned off no matter how you try. It recieves calls every hour of the night and day from hundreds of different companies attempting to sell them something. Often it will trick them by sounding like a friend or family member. Just as it reels them in it screams a add for a penis enlargement or a low cost mortgage in their ear. |
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Greg_Z
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join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | reply to dadkins
Re: Bye Bye
Has nothing to do with AOL. If people would read the TOS before installing a program, there would not be as many problems and there would be less complaining. |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs:  | AOL not trying to trick you somehow?
Yeah right.
gaim > you |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
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join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | reply to Greg_Z
Re: Bye Bye
It's the stupid people who click and install this junk without knowing what malicious crap it comes with. |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
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join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY |  what?
Doesn't the AIM TOS forbid having it's AIM messenger program modified with this junk? |
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Arch16
join:2002-06-15
Auburn, NY | www.oldversion.com
Get an older version of AIM. |
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pcdebb
RIP dadkins
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join:2000-12-03
Tampa, FL
clubs: | heh
i think my buddies know better as I havent received anything "yet", so I should shoot them another heads-up email..... |
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Stumbles
join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL | reply to DivineDark
Re: the spam phone
Sounds like Max Headroom except you could not turn off the TV's. |
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b34tBoX
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join:2003-12-28
Ontario, CAN | reply to Mike
Re: AOL not trying to trick you somehow?
said by Mike:
gaim > you
MSN > gaim > you |
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Mike
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join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs: | That's fighting words making a GTK project higher than MSN bloatware.
besides, it can connect to Microsoft's Shiaty Network. |
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draven
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join:2002-02-20
my bunker | Best quote ever
From the spammers themselves, BuddyWorks:
"Please understand, our flash games are in no way a virus. We simply combine peer-to-peer, social networking, and instant messaging into one spectacular technology." |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| reply to mrchris
Re: Bye Bye
said by mrchris  :
It's the stupid people who click and install this junk without knowing what malicious crap it comes with.
I only had AIM for Picture file transfers with friends. I very seldom use AIM, I use Trillian for my IM. 
AOL(in any form) is a joke. |
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elias
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join:2000-07-24
Miami, FL
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| The Bin-Laden Thing?
Someone sent this both to me and to a co-worked of mine.
I didn't click on it, because I was not only busy, but I found it strange that that particular person would send me a joke page through IMs.
Unfortunately, my co-worked clicked on it, and she says that one of her friends said they got an IM from her shortly after.
-- Elias
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| reply to mrchris
Re: what?
Sure, AOL could say "By agreeing to this TOS you are agreeing not install any add-ons that (spam, spam, spam) but I doubt it would ever be enforceble, anymore than it would be if the Microsoft Windows license said users agree "not to install spyware or adware". What are they going to do, sue their users? Could they even prove damages? Regardles, since the companies developing the scumware never agreed to the TOS, they are not bound either way. |
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Theo25
@attbi.com | Matter Of Time
Its just a matter of time before virus's start spreading through IM..... we will see alot more of this. |
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storm64007
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join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
4 edits | reply to dadkins
Re: Bye Bye
It has nothing to do with AIM by itself. Its a spam message circulating on aim and people who get the message to click the website and download the game and proceed to download it without questioning infect themselves.This has happened on MS messenger and yahoo and can happen on trillian or ANY IM application in different forms too.
Do you download every spam email attachment you get? I hope not.Same thing.
"If users click on the link, a program that is supposedly a game asks permission to be downloaded and installed onto their computers. Installing the game gives the company that produces it -- purportedly, an outfit called PSD Tools -- permission to display ads on the users' computers. In addition, the software spreads the "fun links" to everyone on the users' Buddy Lists."
"While many who have installed it are describing the game as a virus, the truth is that by neglecting to read the terms of service included with the game, they have given the program's distributors permission to take over their computers," said Matty Janko, a systems administrator whose 23-computer network was invaded by the game Wednesday |
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