Win Liv Messenger virus/bug already?

After downloading the 'new' MSN messenger you expect some
different features so when a contact sent me a message with a url
that included my e-mail address and a message saying 'omg look at
this' (or words to that effect)i was concerned the system had
created a public profile for all to see that might be dodgy so i
clicked it....
fool.........
the download appeared with 'profile not found'..phew...
then...
a programme then changed my IE home page to some windows live
thing and my IE browser was frequently filled with the website
radiantix.com. When the computer was left idle the site popped up
10+ times...an e-mail to them got an instant auto answer in bad
spelling saying they had nothing to do with it....
Anyone else had this problem?

g

Greetings,

The API in Windows Live Messenger is the same as the previous versions and as such, these
worms will continue to work.

However, in all cases you need to execute something in order for these to work...

Either way, standard anti-virus, anti-spyware utilities should remove it, assuming they're
up-to-date.

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"gr9ce" <> wrote in message news:%...
> After downloading the 'new' MSN messenger you expect some
> different features so when a contact sent me a message with a url
> that included my e-mail address and a message saying 'omg look at
> this' (or words to that effect)i was concerned the system had
> created a public profile for all to see that might be dodgy so i
> clicked it....
> fool.........
> the download appeared with 'profile not found'..phew...
> then...
> a programme then changed my IE home page to some windows live
> thing and my IE browser was frequently filled with the website
> radiantix.com. When the computer was left idle the site popped up
> 10+ times...an e-mail to them got an instant auto answer in bad
> spelling saying they had nothing to do with it....
> Anyone else had this problem?
>
> g

Does anyone have a sure way of removing this radiantx.com pop up? I have tried up-to-date spyware and virus tools but nothing gets detected or fixed.

c

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I have had exactly the same! I keep getting Radiantix website everytime I log in!! And it keeps sending random things to EVERYONE on my msn!!

Did you get something sent to you like "Holy s**t you profile is being showed" or something? Because I clicked on that and I think that's how I got it??

M

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