AOL Instant Messenger Virus?

[Kim Webb]

These messages keep poppping up on people's IM- is it a virus? anyone
seen this?

"can i put this picture of you on myspace or facebook?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/myphotopics/Image.jpg"

 

[karl.hakkarainen]

It looks like it. The link points to a .pif file.

 

[Kim Webb]

Any idea is clicking on it does any damge? It sends out the same
message to everyone in the AIM list but I'm not sure if it does any
other damage?

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Any idea is clicking on it does any damge? It sends out the same
message to everyone in the AIM list but I'm not sure if it does any
other damage?

A .pif file (Program Information File) will execute and do stuff on your
computer. Since the mentioned file seems to be gone now, we can't say
what it would have done, but you can bet it would have been malicious.

Clicking on it would have been exactly what the perpetrator wanted you
to do.

BTW, have a read of this:
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

 

[Postman delivers]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote on 12/19/2005 :

A .pif file (Program Information File) will execute and do stuff on your
computer. Since the mentioned file seems to be gone now, we can't say
what it would have done, but you can bet it would have been malicious.

Clicking on it would have been exactly what the perpetrator wanted you
to do.

BTW, have a read of this:
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

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