This a quick heads up for all that use Microshit Network’s Messenger (Live) – there is another one of these stupid IM virus thingers on the loose. This one is similar to the skype virus that was doing the rounds recently. A friend sends you a file (usually a photo they want to post on Facebook or similar) and want you to have a look at it and give them permission to publish it (the skype one was a link you had to click that set off a download). When you open said zip file, there’s file that looks like a photobucket link which is actually an executable file that launches the virus. I scanned the zipped folder and the next thing the folder and the chat window that sent the wretched thing disappeared … I smelled something that smelled like a rat and ran a virus scan – the nett result was 159 trojan fuckers of which Clamwin was only able to erradicate 8, the rest of the invaders sit awaiting trial in my quarantine folder … there’s a better chance of South Africa getting red of all the Zimbabwean refugees and illegal Nigerian aliens than there is of these fuckers leaving my PC without a fight … so … much as I look forward to road trippin’ to Cape Town in the morrow, I really hate what awaits me when I return.

Any and all that receive messages from me via MSNM Live (which I have uninstalled, I don’t know how deep this thing is rooted), please do not accept transfers from me; ask me nicely to rather mail you the file and if I refuse, tell me to fuck off – it’s my evil twin spamming your IM.