A .bat isn't an image file. I make sure I don't open anything that could possibly harm my computer. I don't have much protection, just spyware mostly. I did have AVG installed, but after the format I haven't reinstalled. I guess I need to get something back on there.

Don't open .exe's especially, but steer clear of .bat's as well. A friend of mine said soemthing once about embeding a virus inside of an image, but the image file was fairly large. Good thing I haven't encountered a messenger virus yet, I wasn't even aware of them lol.

This post has been edited by minnieadkins: Mar 27 2006, 11:37 PM

Virus
AOL Instant Messenger Chain Virus

How to get rid of from this virus named as picture.Jpg. It will being making many files named as my picture.Jpg, my picture.Jpg, my picture.Jpg,
Please solve my problem.

Danish attari

-reply by Danish

anti virus progs
AOL Instant Messenger Chain Virus

I have a Tesco (Panda software) anti virus programme on my pc, my son's and my laptop. It's a pain in the butt when it's downloading to update (daily) but it catches everything. It stops spyware, hacking in, and the rest.
I was going to get a new system, but I appreciate the work it does to protect my system.I do a regular check-up as well as the automatic one.
I was surprised at just how many attempted intruders try to get through aol, yahoo and msn and windows live messenger.
It was not an expensive programme but jolly well worth the buy!