Saturday, August 11, 2007

MSN PictureAlbum2007 Virus Alert!

Adeline jus sent me an MSN virus!! dammit.

i received it in e form of an msn msg - “check this out. do you think i look ugly in this?” and accompanyin it was a zip file. bein so trustin i received it n unzipped it.

bloody hell!!! it was a stupid PictureAlbum2007 virus and suddenly it sent out the same msg to all my online contacts.

the moment they accept e file or sthg, they no longer can receive any msg frm me. wth. i suspect my anti-virus programme’s virus definition file was also altered. shitty.

after 2 hrs of research & trial n error, and with e help of my geeky baby, we came up wif a solution!

Solution:

1. Force your pc to shut down. Press restart button or power off button if shut down doesnt work.
2. Plug out ur telephone line.
3. Turn on ur computer and go to Run: regedit

4. Go to HKEYLOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE
Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad

5. Find the key “Prodigy1″. Note down the value under Data, then delete “Prodigy1″.
6. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID. Find the value u’ve jot down in #3 n if u find it, delete.

7. Go to C:/Windows. Search for *.zip and PictureAlbum2007.zip should show. Delete it.
8. Restart your comp. Before it reaches windows, press F8 & restart comp in safe mode.

9. When in safe mode, go to C:/Windows. Search for prodigy. Delete Prodigys323.dll or sthg similar.
10. Restart your computer normally! Voila!! YAY!!

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Posted by snow white at 00:04:19
Comments

3 Responses to “MSN PictureAlbum2007 Virus Alert!”

  1. Anonymous says:
    August 11, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    God! Thank you so much! Love you and your geeky baby the most! You guys are the greatest. My comp is fixed now.. thanks to your instructions. MWAH! Lisa Tan

  2. Anonymous says:
    August 11, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    hey, what if i cant find the Prodigy1? but when i just received the virus and when my sis got it on the com next to mine, she told me i had a virus, i straight away delete the whole thing. could it be possible that when i delete the whole thing, the virus is gone too?

    thanks. =D huiying

  3. snow white says:
    August 12, 2007 at 1:08 am

    hi.. i think another person mentioned this prob too. im not sure if it’s a variant or if it’s really been removed. try to search for *.dll and see if there’re similar/dubious filenames. :)

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