The other day I got a file from one of my Chilean friends from overseas asking me what I thought of her picture. I felt kind of sketchy about opening it because it came in a folder, instead of a smaller picture that you normally see when people upload photos to your msn. So yea, I opened the stupid thing and sure enough, the problems arose. It immediately spammed everyone else on my MSN contact list and offered them the same myspace picture file. Then it closed down all of my chat windows and disallowed me from chatting with anyone else. I was forced to log off and log back on in order to be able to chat with anyone else. When I did log on again, about 20-30 mins later it would spam everyone on my list again, trying to upload them the virus. One of my friends accepted it and fell into the same hole as me. Since I figured it was probably a trojan, I began downloading cleaning agents as well as virus removers. I tried about 6 or 7 different ones, accessing them in safe mode, deleting suspicious files, and everything else you can think of, only to no avail. Nothing seemed to work and I felt left with only one option; reformatting my comp, somthing I did not wish to do at that time. So before pulling the plug, I remembered there was one virus scanner I hadn’t tried yet, Norton, so I found a free 2k4 15 day trial and gave that a shot. Surpisingly enough, the Norton Anti Virus was the only one that was able to pick up the trojan horse. It makes me wonder if the virus came from the Norton Anti-virus, and it was their own little scam to get people to suscribe to them. Anyhow… I’m just glad that I don’t have anyone spying on me anymore and things are back to normal, for the time being.