I was chatting to a friend on MSN messenger when it abruptly closed and I recieved a message stating that I had logged onto another computer. The friend I was chatting to recieved a message from whom she believed was 'me' telling her to follow a link to another webpage, which she did, giving out her username and password in the process. I have since found out that some of my other friends have recieved messages from 'me' with links to 'bad' sites. I shudder to think what sites they are being sent to and what damage it may be causing them, and i feel very guilty about the whole thing. I have told them I would try and help in finding a cure for thier infected PC's, however, none of us have any real PC skills. I found this forum and read loads about similar problems, but i haven't done much as 'EvilFantasy' stated each PC is different, so not to follow those particular remedies. I have followed the initial pre-admin stuff, including updating Java, and the three scan and clean programs, and I have the log files ready for persusal, should anyone be willing to offer to help my friends and I. My system is a Dell Dimension 9200 Core 2 CPU 6600 2.4Ghz with 2048Mb RAM and the OS is MS XP Pro SP3, it is a couple of years old but has rarely been used, it has some updates to IE7, MS Works and Adobe flash player recently, as well as the auto windows updates, (mainly security). I was running BitDefnder Total Security 2008 at the time of the hack, but I have since disabled it as i no longer have any trust in it. I am currently using McAffe, however, I have downloaded and used the tools recommended by 'EvilFantasy'. Can somebody have a look at my three logs and offer me some advice please ?
