[shortkid1101]

On sunday afternoon my brother recived a link from one of his friends asking "do you mind if I use this picture as my myspace default" or something of that sort. It took him to a website and told him to download "picture09.pif." As soon as that happened McAfee virus scan detected a virus adn said that it was cleened.

This is the message that it gave us
"The file C:/WINDOWS\system32\cjnr4r4zegikm.exe was infected by the HackerDefender.gen trojan and has been deleted to complete the Clean process.

So at this point i thought that the virus was gone, and afterwards we did a virus scan 3 times and nothing was detected. But each time we restart our computer we get that same message by McAfee about the virus being cleaned and deleleted. I ran the most recent version of AIMFix, but it cannot detect any viruses in AIM.

This virus seems offly familiar to the one that went around in mid July but the symptoms dont seem the same. Also it is (the website)/media/picture09.pif instead of picture21.pif.

I have also run spysweeper but it either has not picked up any hints of it being there.

I have contacted AIM about this but I have not yet recived a reply.

I am thinking of booting my computer in safemode and running the virus scan. What effects would that have?

Thanks