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Originally posted by Memnoch:
You guys want to know what's really scary? This virus sent itself to a whole bunch of people who were NOT in my address book, most of them were from TeamBG for some reason. How can it send itself to people who I don't have in my address book? It must be searching through temporary net files or something. Someone who I don't know sent it to me and I thought she was a forum member either here and had a question so I humored it. I'll be more careful next time.
It basically runs each time you try and run an execute file, no matter what, it runs itself instead, so you can't execute anything. I couldn't get ANYTHING to work, not even Norton Antivirus. I had to boot to a DOS prompt and copy my registry to a .com file and then delete and change some registry entries till I got my computer working again.
So ■■■■■■■ irritating. Sorry guys... 
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Exactly! That's how I figured it out. The nature of the attachment..whoo, (Memsy, had me seriously wondering about your literary taste for a hundredth of a second
), and the fact that almost immediately I found I couldn't open my screensaver program or do a scandisk on my system made it suspect.
I called tech support right away and ended up rebooting a dozen times and running dos too. Finally got my virus definition files updated and then had to reboot again as I couldn't execute my program. grrrr....then it found the @%$%$% thing but couldn't remove it and now my techs have cleared my machine, but something is still screwy and windows will no longer run. sigh...so glad I am on vacation now. Got two weeks before I have to face that computer again!
And Mems, nobody thinks you are responsible! These things are self-perpetuating.
A plague on the obnoxious creature that invented this thing! grrrrr
Cloudy
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