Virus help please...


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I come back from eating out, and I see norton popped up with this annoying message that won't go away.

Apparently I got it from idling in a channel while I was gone. The problem is in the channel log but I can't delete it and there's no info whatsoever on the norton help site on how to get rid of it.

This is urgent please, can somebody help?

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This is just a wild guess but someone probably said something in the channel that leads Norton to think that your log file is bat.quickformat.trojan.

It's probably nothing at all to worry about (I never knew an IRC log file to kill someone's PC!). If I were you I'd close down my IRC client, delete the offending log file, restart my IRC client and run a full system scan.

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Some of you know that I live online, I use or have used many of the programs out there and I had a really kool experience last week when someone joined a channel I happen to be admin of in IRC.  This individual joined the channel, typed or most likely pasted a line of text and then waited to see the results.  The results?  He got kick/banned permanently.  What was he looking for?  He typed in a script that would run on everyone's computer if they were using a certain version of mIRC, that formats the C drive.  Yeah, very kool indeed, 'cuz it requires absolutely no user intervention, you just have to be there and see it when it displays and the rest is magic.  Well, my Norton totally freaked out and quarantined the entire log so I even got a copy of the script.  Was fun for me, but a few others disappeared.  Name of it is: Bat.QuickFormat.Trojan.  and it was merely 15 letters of text that you only have to see and you're done.  Wow!

I saw that after Googling the virus... the offending log won't delete, the Norton box won't go away and i'm never running mirc again <_<

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reformat? No, it doesnt cause you to reformat. it makes norton THINK its gonna cause you to reformat. It only affects people using norton.. if you dont have norton, nothing will happen to you.

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I very very very much doubt it'll harm you if you're using mIRC 6.0 or above.

Why won't the log file delete? What does it say? Have you tried deleting it from a DOS prompt? Have you tried restarting your PC? Restarting in safe mode? Plenty of options available...

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