another aim profile virus

[sharpshooter1286]

i clicked it by accident, i would never do it on purpose cuz its happened b4 but i clicked on a link in someones aim profile. it reads "I cant believe i found a picture of (screen name) here! (<--- link) HAHAHA" i ran ad aware, deleted some tracking cookies and something called "alexant". ive been combing through program files and such, but i can't find it anywhere. does anyone know how i can delete this virus? (ad aware does not work, have run many many scans) or how i can find it among all the different files? it is def the only virus on the computer right now, as i just got the computer re-formatted and the only things i have on it are steam, aim, and the only website i have been to is here, AO. I tried deleting AIM and reinstalling it but that also failed. any ideas?

[sharpshooter1286]

yes, i did a virus scan with norton (only 2001 version, updating soon) and ad-aware

also im not sure what kind of os i have, maybe msdos?

[Xyxyll]

Search around on google. There are usually message boards with solutions to the aim profile viruses. That's how I found the solution for a friend of mine.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

It got me to about 5 minutes ago. I'm gonna try and do a system restore to see if that helps.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

System Restore doesn't fix's this problem

[Jeremizzle]

If you can find the name of the file, push ctrl+Alt+delete and click on the executable file and click end task and that may get rid of it.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Just delete it from your profile. Worked fine for me, and I have restarted my comp and aim a couple times to make sure it didn't come back and it didn't. Oh, and I did ctrl alt del and closed some exe that was running.

[KornKamp02]

Hmm, what are the AIM viruses and what do they do?

[sharpshooter1286]

spongebob, do u remember what the exe was called, i just restarted aim and it didnt come back, then i restarted the computer and it was in there again.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

I don't know excatly but it was random letters and a number 2. Like bfhgp2p something funky like that. I'm almost positive it had p2p at the end.

[sharpshooter1286]

does syntplpr sound familiar?

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Originally posted by sharpshooter1286
does syntplpr sound familiar?

That may very well be it, is it running when you press control alt delete?

[sharpshooter1286]

thats odd, its not it. and im running windows ME, not XP

[sharpshooter1286]

FIXED IT

[i like tictacs]

what was it?