Remove Windows Live MSN Messenger Virus from your System

Windows live messenger is one of the widely used chat messenger services. Windows live messenger and MSN messenger are being used by millions of people everyday and that’s why evil minds started attacking these users with Windows live messenger virus. These virus is potentially harmful since it can log all your chat conversations, typed username, password and send them to the hackers anonymously. It will not only affect your computer performance but also all contacts on your list by sending malicious files as a image or document file to them. It’s most likely that your friend will accept your file and once he does that, his computer will also get affected with the virus.

How Windows Live Messenger Virus Spreads

The virus spreads itself using the infected user’s contact list. It will send a message to all friends in the infected user’s contact list and so on. All friends from the contact list will receive a file transfer request. Most of the time it uses file formats like images, documents or it might also send a link to malicious sites. The fact is that it sends a auto-executable virus with those images, documents etc. Once your friend accepts the file transfer, it gets installed on his computer automatically and starts sending those malicious links and files to your friend’s contact list also.

This virus is clever enough to rename files randomly so that people can’t smell anything fishy quickly. Some of the names this virus uses are photo album.zip, me!.jpeg, IMG-0012.zip, rachel.exe, name.pir, newsXX.zip, Jenny.zip, photo656.jpg, various executables etc. It also adds some attractive lines with that file transfer. Never accept a file when you see the following lines on Windows live messenger.

Lol, you’ll like this
is that u on that photo
is that you on this photo? www.hothotpeople.net/photo894.php
nice new photos of me and my friends and stuff and when i was young lol
picture of me and my friend
picture of me on a beach
look at my new dancing movie
Lmfao hey im sending my new photo album, Some bare funny pictures!
OMG; just accept please its only my photo album
hey man accept my new photo album.. made it for yah, been doing picture story of my life LOL
dude i just got these pictures off my digital for you! Gimme a moment ot find em and send
My friend took nice photos of me
You Should see em loL
look at me doing the moonwalk!!!
Hey, I met this girl at the store a week ago. Look at the picture I took of her when she was sleeping
hey you got a photo album? anyways heres my new photo album accept k?
Hey wanna see my new photo album?
check out my sexy books
HEY lol i’ve done a new photo album
Hey just finished new photo album! might be a few nudes lol…
Wow! look at this old picture i found
Take a look at the new pics already
Is this your profile page http://www.imdownloads.net/profile.php?msn=user@hotmail.com
hey, is this you?http://www.imstuff.us/profile.php?msn=user@hotmail.com
http://www.mprofiles.net/members.php?msn=user@hotmail.com
http://lollypics.xx.funpic.org/pictures.php?photo656.jpg

Effects of Windows Live Messenger Virus

Windows live messenger virus is potentially dangerous and makes your computing experience annoying. Once it gets installed on your system, you can notice following activities on your computer.

• You can’t update your antivirus database (virus signatures)
• Can’t open antivirus sites on your computer
• PC will get shutdown automatically
• Program will shutdown immediately
• Can’t open or run any programs
• Abnormal computer behavior

The worst thing this virus does is it sends itself as a auto-executable files to all your contacts list and gets installed on their systems without their knowledge. This virus does everything in the background process and makes the life almost hell.

How to remove Windows Live MSN Messenger Virus from your Computer

Almost all antivirus companies have updated their virus signature database to delete this virus as soon as they locate it on your computer. You can use antivirus softwares like Norton Antivirus, Kaspersky antivirus, NOD32 antivirus, AVG Full version to keep your computer clean from Windows live MSN messenger virus. However, if you have not updated your antivirus and have got affected by this Windows live MSN messenger worm, you can take help of these following tools to remove virus completely.

MSN Virus Remover (MSNVirusRemoval) Software :

MSNVirusRemoval is one of the most trust able and dependable tool to remove almost all MSN worms. As of now, it’s capable of removing 12672 MSN worms and updating it’s database frequently to provide support against all other viruses. You need to run your computer in safe mode and make a whole computer scan. MSNVirusRemoval will remove and delete all virus instances from your computer and will restore your default access to Regedit, Command prompt, Run, Task Manager, System Restore etc. It also scans all external drives to minimize the risk of the virus attack in future.

MSN Virus Cleaner : [Download link Not Working Anymore]

CodeMonster’s MSN Virus Cleaner tool is much efficient to remove all MSN messenger or Windows live messenger worms or viruses from your computer. MSN Virus cleaner comes with inbuilt start up manager, task manager to analyze the current computer running status. Since most worms and viruses block access to the Windows task manager and start up manager, you can use Windows virus cleaner’s task manager and start up manager to control various virus activities and clean them from your system. It also supports Yahoo messenger and AOL messenger virus and worms.

MSNFix :

MSNFix is a command batch script designed to find MSN worms and viruses, remove them from your system and keep your computer clean. This is one of the most powerful tool that does not require you to boot your system in safe mode. You can run MSNFix directly on the virus infected computer and it will start finding and deleting all worms. Simply unpack the zip file and run MSNFix.bat file. Follow step by step instructions to remove MSN virus completely from your system.

Important Recommendation: Run a Free Scan for Windows Errors Installing or uninstalling software can leave your registry fragmented with corrupted or harmful files. Check your registry with RegistryBooster

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