Hey this looks alot like you! :S

hey this looks alot like you

It’s really irritating and it spreads like mad. I hope you know what I’m saying. MSN messages like the above title, some goes by "Is that you on that photo…" or similar has been popping on my Instance Messenger on daily basis. If you are receiving these messages like I do, that means your friend on the other end has been infected by a MSN virus. I not sure if its deadly, but it’s sure disturbing.

These viruses goes by various names, MSN Virus Project 1; Generic2.EXO; Backdoor.Generic3.SAT. Once infected it will spread across your contact lists and sends out the above said (or similar message). If any of your IM contacts clicks on it, they will be brought via Internet Explorer to download a file name photo656.pif. If the user downloads it, there goes another users.

Removing the virus from PC

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Comments

Ramy March 8th, 2008

It’s a pretty old virus, it’s sooo annoying.
I’ve never clicked on it, but my sister always does… “Oh, I thought it was a picture of me”. Hehe, but thanks for the solution, I’ve never heard of it, so… thanks for that.
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hongkiat March 8th, 2008

Ramy: Yeah, I heard that this is an old virus too, but apparently I’m getting so many these days. Maybe it re-spread after the Hongkong celebrity photo exposed incident.
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Ties March 26th, 2008

Thanks. sent the link directly to my computernitwit friends.
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lydia March 27th, 2008

I just got this viruss T_T
but I tried downloading the tool, but it detected nothing.

I’m sure that I still have it though.
Suddenly messages just keep popping up from almost everyone in my contact list and before I can get to it, it closes. Is that normal?
I’m not exactly sure if I’m sending weird messages though. No one has told me that I have.
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lydia March 27th, 2008

Oh, and also, I’m not sure again if this problem is because of the virus, but:
When I click on my contact to talk to, they chat box doesn’t come up; I can’t talk to them.
I can only talk to a few that works for some reason.
This is getting very annoying because I’m almost on MSN for the whole day.
And im not even sure if I’m actually spreading the viruses the whole time I’m on….
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Ida March 28th, 2008

Gosh i got that daym virus.. the weird thing is that i havent got that toolbar, or anything, but it does, as lyda says, poppin windows.. but i dont know how to delete it..the antivirus pogram finds it, but it cant delete it because “the file changed name” weirdest thing ever! And my brother was home, thank god, and he downloaded ad-aware we let it run all night, and in the morning - no critical objects - but i know i have it! .. so does anyone know what i should do?, beause that tool-thing, doesnt work.
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Manoj March 30th, 2008

Even I tried removing the virus but nothing happened…
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Alex April 1st, 2008

Alright, I got this virus not to long ago and well, it was more than just a simple IM virus. It was a complete Trojan. The thing put a keylogger, adware, spyware, and a whole bunch of other shit that I didn’t need. It disabled my run command, task manager, and the ability to go back to a previous date. I had to reformat my hard drive to get that shit off.
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Jean April 3rd, 2008

I have gotten it and i have ran Ad-aware and Spybot S&D and my anti-virus found nothing.
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Svarbard April 29th, 2008

Try msn fix
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