Contact is a virus

Hi, I have a contact which is a chinese-english dictionary. It has worked
fine for several months but lately it has sent me phonechat requests.
A few days ago when I was using my messenger all the chat windows started
blinking. It was suspicious so I pulled out the internet cable. When I logged
in again a friend said I had sent him a photo album, although I hadn't.

Now I've tried to REMOVE this dictionary contact. But the same thing happens
and the next time i sign in it APPEARS AGAIN.

What shall I do?

Thanks!

Greetings Hannah,

I think you're dealing with separate problems here -- a contact cannot make changes to your
computer or cause you do anything. The whole idea of Messenger's invite model is that you
have to accept a request for anything to happen.

That said, if you're sending files to random contacts, it sounds like you've accepted and
executed a virus or worm. Unfortunately there is no sure way to remove such things
automatically as virus scanners do not know about every single one of them. Luckily, they're
pretty easy to locate and kill for those who are familiar with Windows -- they just show up
in the Task Manager processes tab.

BTW, what is the Live ID/e-mail for this contact in question?

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"hannah" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have a contact which is a chinese-english dictionary. It has worked
> fine for several months but lately it has sent me phonechat requests.
> A few days ago when I was using my messenger all the chat windows started
> blinking. It was suspicious so I pulled out the internet cable. When I logged
> in again a friend said I had sent him a photo album, although I hadn't.
>
> Now I've tried to REMOVE this dictionary contact. But the same thing happens
> and the next time i sign in it APPEARS AGAIN.
>
> What shall I do?
>
> Thanks!

hannah wrote:

> What shall I do?

Install an anti-virus, duh.