Virus i think?

Well i was on msn, Not really paying attention to what i was doing and i stupidly clicked on one of those " Is this you in this picture? __________________" And im sure i've got a virus, Whenever im on all my contacts open up and automatically i send a message with the same thing and my comp is running much slower, I had MSE installed and now i cant find it anywhere ( Do you know where to find it? ) So im now downloading AVG, Any help?

 

Get an antivirus on that machine then boot the machine into safe mode with networking and get updates for the antivirus.

Run it after that and see if it kills it. I'll throw up some other programs for you to try if AVG doesn't fix it.

 

Well i found MSE in program files, I've started a full scan, Im not in Safe Mode because i dont want to restarted my 45 mins scan

 

Then run it in safe mode after your initial scan if it doesn't come up with anything.

 

Noob question, How do you switch to safe mode?

 

Avast! has a boot-time scan if that helps?

 

Whats a boot-time scan?

 

This is what I did to get rid of mine.

I changed my msn password, I did try one of those trojan removal tools but Im not sure if that just stopped the msn one and gave my comp its own set of viruses O_O

 

Boot-time scan is only for x86

 

Well MSE picked it up and gave it the boot, For anybody wondering it was this http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Worm%3aWin32%2fSlenfbot.AKD&threatid=2147639716 Thats just a link to the page with info on it, Do you think i should change my msn pass?

 

Just a bit of advice

Aside from having a good anti-virus application, it's in your system's best interest that you also put on a good anti-malware application as virii & malware are two different things although both do harm to your system.

One of the best anti-malware applications out there is malwarebytes...

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Also, aside from an anti-malware app, you'd also be better off with an anti-spyware app like Spybot S&D:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Lastly a far superior Firewall like ZoneAlarm won't hurt in beefing up your system's immunity as Windows Firewall isn't exactly solid as a rock.

Hope these tools will help you out

 

My only other question is did you inform all of your contacts about what happened so they can avoid getting hit with it as well?

It spreads by going through your contacts so you'd probably better let them know ASAP.

 

Yea i did, When it started sendin em, I told em all, And i had my msn synced up to my Facebook so it hit them as well T_T

 

Get Norton not AVG. AVG couldn't detect the original Microsoft virus (yes there is one) but Norton could. Norton is twice as good as AVG.

 

This was tried, by you, in the year what?

 

I would disagree with you loony, Mcafee is worst, then Norton. But you have more experience than I in antivirus programs so i would incline more on your decision.

 

They're both resource hogs so I generally dislike both of them. Their penchants for false positives are fairly annoying as well.