I STRONGLY suggest that EVERYONE who has MSN Messenger, immediately do a full system virus scan with an up-to-date virus scanner.

I am behind a router (a hardware firewall), and I have eTrust Firewall (a software firewall), and I don't download any files or open any attachments without scanning them first.

I was sitting watching tv with my computer on when suddenly I got notification from my antivirus program that it just detected and deleted a virus. My system was virus free this morning when I did a virus scan.

I checked the virus at my antivirus software site and it's a win32.nochod virus....and is spread through MSN Messenger, and it sends messages to all user contacts discovered on the affected machine.

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=43324

MSN Messenger is a network of people connected together by common contacts; I really, really, really advise that each and every single one of you scan your system with an up-to-date virus scanner, and notify every single person in your contact list either by email or by MSN Messenger to also scan their system. Otherwise people will just keep passing it back and forth to each other.

Message edited on: 08/30/2005 22:50

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